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Chapter 1
17.
—(1) For the purposes of reckoning the amount of a pension or gratuity to be granted to a member in the pensionable service in the Singapore Armed Forces the following periods, less any period or periods that are deducted pursuant to regulation 18, shall be counted as service which is pensionable, namely:
(a)
regular service on full pay as a member of the Singapore Armed Forces for which no gratuity or pension has been paid;
(b)
regular service on full pay as a member of the former Singapore Military Force prior to 16th September 1963, or as a member of the Federation Army from 16th September 1963 to 8th August 1965, if the member was absorbed or deemed to be absorbed in the Singapore Armed Forces on 9th August 1965, without a break in service, for which no gratuity or pension has been paid;
(c)
full-time national service that has been rendered by a full-time national serviceman prior to his enlistment as a member in the pensionable service of the Singapore Armed Forces;
(d)
service which qualifies for an award of a pension under the Pensions Act (Cap. 225), of a mobilised volunteer or of a national serviceman in the People’s Defence Force that is rendered immediately prior to his mobilisation and which is converted on a one-for-one basis to pensionable service under these Regulations upon the mobilised volunteer or national serviceman, as the case may be, being absorbed into the pensionable service of the Singapore Armed Forces;
(e)
mobilised service of a volunteer or national serviceman in the People’s Defence Force that is rendered immediately prior to his absorption into the pensionable service if that service has not been counted as pensionable service under sub-paragraph (d);
(f)
service which qualifies for the award of a pension in the Government, in the former Port of Singapore Authority, 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 pensionable service under these Regulations on his absorption into the pensionable service of the Singapore Armed Forces;
(g)
service on secondment to the Singapore Armed Forces of a member immediately prior to his absorption into the pensionable service if that service has not been counted as pensionable service under sub-paragraph (f);
(h)
service which a member has rendered on short service commission or on contract in the Singapore Armed Forces immediately prior to his conversion to the pensionable service of the Singapore Armed Forces for which no gratuity has been paid or was payable;
(i)
service in any Commonwealth force that has been permitted to count as reckonable service on his joining or while serving in the former Singapore Military Force, in respect of a member who was still serving in the Singapore Armed Forces on the 1st December 1970 so long as the conditions that may have been originally stipulated for the reckoning of that service are fulfilled;
(j)
service in any other armed forces which may be allowed to count as pensionable service by the Armed Forces Council, subject to such conditions as it may think fit to impose;
(k)
periods of confinement as a prisoner of war;
(l)
pensionable service in the Government of a member rendered immediately prior to his absorption into the pensionable service of the Singapore Armed Forces and which is converted on a one-for-one basis to pensionable service under these Regulations if such member had been a full-time national serviceman;
(m)
any period during which a member of the Singapore Armed Forces has been absent from duty on leave with half-pay;
(n)
part-time regular service as a member of the Singapore Armed Forces but to be counted on the basis of the proportion the part-time regular service bears to whole-time regular service over the same period;
(o)
any period during which a member of the Singapore Armed Forces has been absent from duty on study leave under such circumstances and conditions as the Armed Forces Council may from time to time prescribed by general order; and
(p)
pensionable 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 pensionable service under these Regulations, subject to such conditions as the Armed Forces Council may impose.
(2) Where a member to whom paragraph (1)(e) or (g) applies has received a gratuity in respect of the service referred to in those sub-paragraphs the Armed Forces Council shall as a condition of allowing such service to count as pensionable service require the member to repay the gratuity to the Government either in a lump sum or otherwise and in default of such repayment the previous service shall not be allowed to count as pensionable service.
(3) Subject to paragraph (4), where the Government has paid contributions to the Central Provident Fund or any other approved fund for a member in respect of the service referred to in paragraph (1)(c), (e), (g) or (h) it shall be a condition of allowing such service to count as pensionable service that the member shall repay the contributions to the Central Provident Fund or any approved fund together with interest thereon to the Government either in a lump sum or otherwise and in default of such repayment the previous service shall not be allowed to count as pensionable service.
(4) In respect of any such service on or after 1st April 1972, the amount of contributions to the Central Provident Fund or any approved fund to be repaid to the Government shall exclude the amount so paid on account of the member with respect to such service if he was on the pensionable establishment or an equivalent amount if he was not on the pensionable establishment.
(5) Where a member of the Singapore Armed Forces serving on full pay converts to the pensionable service and upon such conversion refunds any gratuity which has been paid to him in advance under regulation 27(2) together with interest, if applicable, it shall be deemed for the purposes of paragraph (1)(a) that no gratuity has been paid to the member.
18. The following periods of service shall not be counted as pensionable service under these Regulations:
(a)
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;
(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 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;
(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; and
(h)
the whole period of leave of absence without pay granted to a member.
19. 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 —
(a)
the service has been interrupted by a temporary suspension not arising from misconduct;
(b)
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;
(c)
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
(d)
the service is interrupted for any of the periods referred to in regulation 18.