Regulation 8

the period during which the member is a soldier or military expert in regular service on full pay in the Singapore Armed Forces;

the period of full-time national service that has been rendered by a full-time national serviceman in any force, which is designated by the Minister for the purposes of national service, prior to his enlistment as a soldier in the regular service of the Singapore Armed Forces;

service which qualifies for an award of a pension under the Pensions Act 1956, of a mobilised volunteer or of a national serviceman in the People’s Defence Force that was rendered immediately prior to his mobilisation and which was converted on a one-for-one basis to pensionable service under the Singapore Armed Forces (Pensions) Regulations (Rg 9) upon the mobilised volunteer or national serviceman, as the case may be, being absorbed into the pensionable service of the Singapore Armed Forces;

mobilised service of a volunteer or national serviceman in the People’s Defence Force that was rendered immediately prior to his absorption into the pensionable service under the Singapore Armed Forces (Pensions) Regulations (Rg 9) if that service has not been counted as pensionable service under paragraph (c);

service which qualifies for the award of a pension in the Government or in any statutory body of a member seconded to the Singapore Armed Forces in respect of service rendered immediately prior to his secondment and which is converted on a one-for-one basis to regular service under these Regulations on his absorption into the regular service as a soldier on or after 31st March 2000;

service on secondment to the Singapore Armed Forces of a member immediately prior to his absorption into the regular service as a soldier on or after 31st March 2000 if that service has not been regarded as regular service under paragraph (e);

service which a member has rendered on contract in the Singapore Armed Forces prior to his conversion on or after 31st March 2000 to the regular service;

any period of service in any other armed forces which may be allowed to count as reckonable service by the Armed Forces Council, subject to such conditions as it may think fit to impose;

periods of confinement as a prisoner of war;

pensionable service in the Government of a member rendered immediately prior to his absorption on or after 31st March 2000 into the regular service of the Singapore Armed Forces and which is converted on a one-for-one basis to regular service under these Regulations if the member, other than a member who is a woman, had been a full-time national serviceman;

any period during which a member has been absent from duty on leave with half-pay;

part-time regular service but to be counted on the basis of the proportion the part-time regular service bears to full-time regular service over the same period;

any period of service in the Government of a member rendered immediately prior to his absorption into the regular service of the Singapore Armed Forces and which the Armed Forces Council has determined shall count as regular service under these Regulations, subject to such conditions as the Armed Forces Council may impose;

any period for which the member was on officer cadet training;

any period of mobilised service as a national serviceman subject to such conditions as the Armed Forces Council may impose; and

such service other than in the Government as the Armed Forces Council has determined shall count as regular service under these Regulations, subject to such conditions as the Armed Forces Council may impose.