Singapore legislation
Regulation 18
Regulation 18
Service not counted as pensionable service
The following periods of service shall not be counted as pensionable service under these Regulations:
a 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;
the whole period of absence without leave;
the whole period of desertion;
the whole period of detention or special detention or imprisonment in a guard detention-room, barrack detention-room, disciplinary barrack or military or civil prison while undergoing a sentence awarded by a subordinate military court or the Military Court of Appeal or disciplinary officer if the detention or special detention or imprisonment involves a forfeiture of pay;
the whole period of imprisonment or detention as a result of his conviction on a charge by a civil court;
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;
the whole period in which pay is forfeited; and
the whole period of leave of absence without pay granted to a member.