Enlistment (Amendment) Bill

Bill No. 11/2003

Read the first time on 30th June 2003.

An Act to amend the Enlistment Act (Chapter 93 of the 2001 Revised Edition).

Be it enacted by the President with the advice and consent of the Parliament of Singapore, as follows:

Short title and commencement

1. This Act may be cited as the Enlistment (Amendment) Act 2003 and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint.

Amendment of section 2

2. Section 2 of the Enlistment Act is amended by deleting the full-stop at the end of the definition of “Special Constabulary” and substituting a semi-colon, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following definition:

“ “subordinate military court” has the same meaning as in the Singapore Armed Forces Act.”.

Amendment of section 20

3. Section 20 of the Enlistment Act is amended by inserting, immediately after subsection (3), the following subsections:

“(4) Subject to subsection (5), where a regular serviceman is sentenced by a subordinate military court to a discharge with ignominy or dismissal, he shall be deemed to be discharged from regular service on the occurrence of any of the following events:

(a)	where no petition of review or appeal has been lodged, the expiration of the time limited for the lodging of such petition; or
(b)	where a petition of review or appeal has been lodged, the confirmation of the sentence by the reviewing authority or the Military Court of Appeal, as the case may be.

(5) The discharge of a regular serviceman under subsection (4) shall take effect from the date of the sentence by reason of which he is discharged or from such other date as may be specified by the subordinate military court.

(6) In this section —

“Military Court of Appeal” means the Court established under Part VII of the Singapore Armed Forces Act (Cap. 295);

“reviewing authority” means the reviewing authority referred to in section 116(1) of the Singapore Armed Forces Act.”.

Amendment of section 27

4. Section 27 of the Enlistment Act is amended —

(a)

by deleting the word “or” at the end of subsection (2)(b);

(b)

by deleting the full-stop at the end of paragraph (c) of subsection (2) and substituting the word “; or”, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following paragraph:

“(d)	any period during which he was under close arrest on a charge for an offence of which he was subsequently convicted by a subordinate military court, a disciplinary officer or a Senior Disciplinary Committee.”; and

(c)

by inserting, immediately after subsection (2), the following subsection:

“(3) In this section —

“disciplinary officer” has the same meaning as in the Singapore Armed Forces Act (Cap. 295);

“Senior Disciplinary Committee” means a Senior Disciplinary Committee appointed under section 72 of the Singapore Armed Forces Act.”.

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