Visiting Forces Act 1960 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 2 · Visiting Forces
8. Singapore courts to have regard to sentences of service courts
Feedback & supportWhere a person who has been convicted by a service court under the powers referred to in section 6(1) is convicted by a court of Singapore, and it appears to that court that the conviction by the service court was wholly or partly in respect of acts or omissions in respect of which he is convicted by the court of Singapore, that court shall have regard to the sentence of the service court.
service court
“service court” means a court established under service law and includes any authority of a country who under the law of that country is empowered to review the proceedings of such a court or to try or investigate charges brought against persons subject to the service law of that country; and references to trial by, or to sentences passed by, service courts of a country shall be construed respectively as including references to trial by, and to punishment imposed by, such an authority in the exercise of such power;