Singapore legislation

Regulation 17

of Enlistment Regulations 1970

Regulation 17

Release and discharge of regulars

Subregulation 1

Subject to any other provision in the Act or in these Regulations, a regular serviceman must be released from regular service by an order of the proper authority at the end of his term of service.

Subregulation 2

Any period of service of a regular serviceman may be extended by the proper authority upon an application for the extension being made by the regular serviceman.

Subregulation 3

The proper authority may at the proper authority’s discretion grant an application by a regular serviceman to be released from regular service before the end of his term of service for reasons of domestic hardship or for any other sufficient reason.

Subregulation 4

The proper authority may order the discharge of a regular serviceman for any of the following reasons:

(a)

that the regular serviceman is inefficient or is unlikely to be efficient;

(b)

that the regular serviceman has undesirable influence on others;

(c)

that the regular serviceman is likely to bring discredit upon the Singapore Armed Forces;

(d)

that the regular serviceman has been convicted of an act of dishonesty or violence or of disgraceful, cruel or indecent conduct;

(e)

that the regular serviceman has been sentenced to imprisonment;

(f)

that the regular serviceman has persistently failed to match up to the Singapore Armed Forces Code of Conduct;

(g)

that the regular serviceman is a security hazard;

(h)

that there is a reduction in the establishment wherever it is impossible to find any other appropriate post for the regular serviceman.

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