Singapore legislation
Regulation 17AC
Regulation 17AC
Advance withdrawals from SAVER Account, etc.
Subregulation 1
Despite regulation 17AB, the Armed Forces Council may, on the application of any Category B member, authorise the Category B member to withdraw in advance, an advance sum (or any part of that sum) from his SAVER Account or his Savings Account (if any) or both while he is still in the regular service of the Singapore Armed Forces.
Subregulation 2
For the purposes of paragraph (1), the advance sum is the sum that would have vested in the member under regulation 17AG(1), and for this purpose the reference to the date of his retirement or resignation in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) of that regulation is a reference to the date of the authorisation in paragraph (1).
Subregulation 3
The Armed Forces Council may, in authorising a Category B member to withdraw an advance sum under paragraph (1), impose any conditions that it thinks fit, including the payment of interest (and the rate of such interest) on recovery or refund under paragraph (4) or (5) of the sum withdrawn.
Subregulation 4
Without affecting paragraph (3), it is a condition of every authorisation under paragraph (1) that the Armed Forces Council may recover all or part of the advance sum so withdrawn (together with interest) if the authorisation was —
obtained by wilful suppression of material facts; or
given in ignorance of facts which, had they been known before the Category B member retired or resigned or was dismissed or before the granting of such authorisation, would have justified —
the Category B member’s discharge on any of the grounds specified in regulation 17 or 18 of the Enlistment Regulations; or
the Category B member’s conviction of any offence by a subordinate military court or the Military Court of Appeal on appeal or by any civil court.
Subregulation 5
Where any Category B member, who is authorised under paragraph (1) to withdraw all or any part of the advance sum from his SAVER Account or his Savings Account (if any), is subsequently to be —
discharged on any of the grounds specified in regulation 17 or 18 of the Enlistment Regulations;
discharged with ignominy; or
dismissed as a result of the sentence of a subordinate military court or Military Court of Appeal or a sentence substituted by the Armed Forces Council,the Armed Forces Council may require the Category B member to refund all or part of the advance sum so withdrawn together with interest.
Subregulation 6
Any sum or interest or both that is recoverable under paragraph (4) or that is to be refunded under paragraph (5) —
may be recovered as a debt due to the Government; and
may be off-set against any other sum payable by the Government to that Category B member under these Regulations.