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PART III
DESERTERS AND ABSENTEES WITHOUT LEAVE
15.
—(1) Subject to this section, sections 123, 167 and 168 of the Singapore Armed Forces Act (which relate to the apprehension, custody and delivery into military custody of deserters and absentees without leave from the Singapore Armed Forces) shall within Singapore apply in relation to deserters and absentees without leave from the forces of any country to which this section applies as they apply in relation to deserters and absentees without leave from the Singapore Armed Forces.
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(2) The powers conferred by sections 123, 167 and 168 of the Singapore Armed Forces Act as applied by subsection (1) shall not be exercised in relation to a person except in compliance with a request (whether specific or general) of the appropriate authority of the country to which he belongs.
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(3) In sections 123, 167 and 168 of the Singapore Armed Forces Act as applied by subsection (1), references to the delivery of a person into military custody shall be construed as references to the handing over of that person to such authority of the country to which he belongs, at such place in Singapore as may be designated by the appropriate authority of that country.
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(4) In this section, references to the country to which a person belongs are references to the country from whose forces he is suspected of being or (where he has surrendered himself) appears from his confession to be a deserter or absentee without leave.
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Evidence for purposes of section 15
16. For the purposes of any proceedings under or arising out of any provision of the Singapore Armed Forces Act as applied by section 15 —
(a)
a document purporting to be a certificate under the hand of the Minister, stating that a request has been made for the exercise of the powers mentioned in section 15(2), and indicating the effect of the request, shall be sufficient evidence, unless the contrary is proved, that the request has been made and of its effect; and
(b)
a document purporting to be a certificate under the hand of the officer commanding a unit or detachment of any of the forces of a country to which this section applies, stating that a person named and described therein was at the date of the certificate a deserter, or absentee without leave, from those forces shall be sufficient evidence, unless the contrary is proved, of the facts appearing from the document to be so certified.
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