Singapore legislation

Regulation 9

of Singapore Armed Forces (Premium Plan) Regulations

Regulation 9

Service not counted as reckonable service

Amended byS 439/2025 wef 01/07/2025

Subregulation 1

Amended byS 439/2025 wef 01/07/2025

Subject to paragraph (2), the following periods of service shall not be counted as reckonable service under these Regulations:

(a)

any period of service forfeited by sentence of a subordinate military court or Superior Commander or as a result of a decision of the Military Court of Appeal or a review of the Armed Forces Council, other than service forfeited for the purposes of promotion, in accordance with the provisions of the Act or any other written law for the time being in force;

(b)

the whole period of absence without leave;

(c)

the whole period of desertion;

(d)

the whole period of detention or special detention or imprisonment while undergoing a sentence awarded by a subordinate military court or the Military Court of Appeal or disciplinary officer;

(e)

the whole period of imprisonment or detention as a result of his conviction on a charge by a civil court;

(f)

the whole period of remand, custody, confinement, detention, open arrest or close arrest or suspension from duty while waiting for trial by the civil authority or military authority on a charge of which the member is subsequently convicted if during the period he has received no pay;

(g)

the whole period in which pay is forfeited;

(h)

the whole period of leave of absence without pay granted to a member, except for the following periods:

(i)

the whole period of no pay maternity leave;

(ii)

the whole period of unpaid infant care leave as the Armed Forces Council may determine in a General Order;

(iii)

the whole period of unpaid leave for unexpected care needs as the Armed Forces Council may determine in a General Order;

(i)

the whole period of study leave sponsored by the Government.

Subregulation 2

Notwithstanding paragraph (1), the Armed Forces Council may count as reckonable service all or part of such period of service in paragraph (1) as it thinks fit.