Singapore legislation
Regulation 5
of Singapore Armed Forces (Subordinate Military Courts) Regulations 2004
Regulation 5
Joint charges
Subregulation 1
Two or more accused may be charged in the same charge-sheet —
in respect of separate offences alleged to have been committed by each of them individually, if the acts on which the charges are founded are so connected that it is in the interests of justice that the charges be tried together; or
in respect of a single offence alleged to have been committed by them jointly.
Subregulation 2
When 2 or more accused are charged in the same charge-sheet under paragraph (1), each accused may, at the same time, be charged in the same charge-sheet with any other offence alleged to have been committed —
by him individually; or
by them jointly,if the charge relating to the other offence could, had he been tried separately, have been included under regulation 3(1) in the same charge-sheet.