Singapore legislation
Regulation 19
Regulation 19
Pensionable service must be continuous and unbroken
Service in respect of which a pension or a gratuity may be granted must be continuous and unbroken but there shall not be deemed to be any break in such service if —
the service has been interrupted by a temporary suspension not arising from misconduct;
there has been a break between the end of any service in any force referred to in regulation 17(1)(i) or (j) that has been permitted to count as reckonable service according to that regulation and the beginning of service in the former Singapore Military Force, the Federation Army or the Singapore Armed Forces, as the case may be;
there has been a break between the end of full-time national service rendered by a full-time national serviceman and the beginning of his service in the pensionable service; or
the service is interrupted for any of the periods referred to in regulation 18.