Singapore Armed Forces (Urine Specimens and Urine Tests) (Amendment) Regulations 2016

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No. S 368

Singapore Armed Forces Act

(CHAPTER 295)

Singapore Armed Forces
(Urine Specimens and Urine Tests)
(Amendment) Regulations 2016

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 205 of the Singapore Armed Forces Act, the Armed Forces Council makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Singapore Armed Forces (Urine Specimens and Urine Tests) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 and come into operation on 1 August 2016.

Amendment of regulation 2

2. Regulation 2 of the Singapore Armed Forces (Urine Specimens and Urine Tests) Regulations 2014 (G.N. No. S 482/2014) (called in these Regulations the principal Regulations) is amended by deleting the words “carried out” in the definition of “urine test” and substituting the word “conducted”.

Amendment of regulation 5

3. Regulation 5 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “carried out” in paragraphs (3) and (5) and substituting in each case the word “conducted”;

(b)

by deleting the words “whether or not an application is made under section 100 of the Act” in paragraph (5);

(c)

by deleting paragraphs (6) and (7) and substituting the following paragraphs:

“(6) Only one of the following persons (each called in this regulation an authorised person) may conduct a urine test on any of the remaining 2 parts of the urine specimen mentioned in paragraphs (4) and (5):

(a)	an analyst employed by the Authority;
(b)	a person appointed under section 16(a)(ii) of the Misuse of Drugs Act (Cap. 185);
(c)	a Singapore Armed Forces pharmacist or chemist;
(d)	a person mentioned in section 99(1)(a)(iv) of the Act.

(7) Where urine tests are to be conducted on the remaining 2 parts of the urine specimen mentioned in paragraphs (4) and (5), the Chief Executive of the Authority must arrange for the test on each part to be conducted by a different authorised person.”;

(d)

by deleting the words “analyst, or by an appointed person” in paragraph (8) and substituting the words “authorised person”;

(e)

by deleting paragraph (9) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(9) The authorised person mentioned in paragraph (8) may sign the certificate mentioned in that paragraph despite the authorised person not having personally conducted the test of that urine specimen, as long as the test of that urine specimen was conducted by another person acting under the direction of the authorised person.”; and

(f)

by deleting paragraph (11).

Deletion of regulation 6

4. Regulation 6 of the principal Regulations is deleted.

Made on 17 June 2016.

TEO ENG DIH

Secretary,
Armed Forces Council,
Singapore.

[MINDEF U96J/16-2-11-1; AG/LLRD/SL/295/2010/16 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 207 of the Singapore Armed Forces Act).