Singapore Armed Forces (Leave) (Amendment) Regulations 2007

No. S 677

Singapore Armed Forces Act

(Chapter 295)

Singapore Armed Forces (Leave) (Amendment) Regulations 2007

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

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Singapore Armed Forces (Leave) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 and shall come into operation on 19th December 2007.

Amendment of regulation 8

2. Regulation 8 of the Singapore Armed Forces (Leave) Regulations (Rg 12) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after paragraph (1B), the following paragraphs:

“(1C) Notwithstanding paragraphs (1) and (1A), a servicewoman who, on or after 1st March 2007 —

(a)	is married and delivers a child who is not a citizen of Singapore at the time of his birth;
(b)	is not married and delivers a child who is a citizen of Singapore at the time of his birth; or
(c)	is not married and delivers a child who is not a citizen of Singapore at the time of his birth,

and who has been in service for at least 180 days before the date of her confinement, shall be eligible for the grant of maternity leave on full pay if —

(i)	where the child is not a citizen of Singapore at the time of his birth, he becomes a citizen of Singapore before he attains 6 months of age;
(ii)	where the servicewoman is not married, she becomes lawfully married to the child’s natural father after the child’s birth but before the child attains 6 months of age; and
(iii)	she has fewer than 4 other living children (excluding legally adopted children and step-children) at the time of her confinement.

(1D) The period of maternity leave granted to a servicewoman under paragraph (1C) shall be as follows:

(a)

if the relevant event occurs within the period of 8 weeks commencing on the day of her confinement —

(i)	the period commencing on the day the relevant event occurs and ending on the last day of the period of 8 weeks commencing on the day of her confinement; and
(ii)	one or more further periods, not exceeding 28 days in the aggregate, which shall be within the period of 6 months commencing on the day of her confinement; or

(b)

if the relevant event occurs after the period of 8 weeks commencing on the day of her confinement, one or more periods commencing on or after the day the relevant event occurs, not exceeding 28 days in the aggregate, which shall be within the period of 6 months commencing on the day of her confinement.

(1E) In paragraph (1D), “relevant event”, in relation to a servicewoman who —

(a)

delivers a child who is not a citizen of Singapore at the time of his birth, means the child becoming a citizen of Singapore;

(b)

is not married, means the servicewoman becoming lawfully married to the child’s natural father; and

(c)

is not married and delivers a child who is not a citizen of Singapore at the time of his birth, means the later of the following events:

(i)	the child becoming a citizen of Singapore; or
(ii)	the servicewoman becoming lawfully married to the child’s natural father.

(1F) In paragraphs (1), (1A), (1C) and (1E), in relation to a servicewoman who delivers a child, “married” means —

(a)	being lawfully married to the child’s natural father at the time the child is conceived; or
(b)	becoming lawfully married to the child’s natural father after the child is conceived but before the child’s birth, whether or not such marriage remains subsisting at the time of the child’s birth.”; and

(b)

by deleting paragraph (2) and substituting the following paragraphs:

“(2) A servicewoman who has been granted maternity leave on full pay in any one year shall only be eligible in the same calendar year for medical leave on full pay up to a maximum of —

(a)	30 days whether or not she is warded in a hospital, if she is on the leave scheme set out in the First, Second, Third or Fifth Schedule; or
(b)	14 days if she is not warded in a hospital and 60 days if she is warded in a hospital, if she is on the leave scheme set out in the Fourth Schedule.

(2A) Where a servicewoman has worked in her employment for any day on or after 1st March 2007 and before 19th December 2007 during the period she would have been eligible to be granted maternity leave on full pay had paragraph (1D) been in force, she shall be entitled to absent herself from work on another day after the end of that period.”.

Amendment of First Schedule

3. Paragraph 2 (2) of the First Schedule to the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “or (1A)” and substituting the words “, (1A) or (1D)”.

Amendment of Second Schedule

4. Paragraph 2 (6) of the Second Schedule to the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “or (1A)” and substituting the words “, (1A) or (1D)”.

Amendment of Third Schedule

5. Paragraph 2 (6) of the Third Schedule to the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “or (1A)” and substituting the words “, (1A) or (1D)”.

Amendment of Fourth Schedule

6. Paragraph 2 (6) of the Fourth Schedule to the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “or (1A)” and substituting the words “, (1A) or (1D)”.

Amendment of Fifth Schedule

7. Paragraph 2 (2) of the Fifth Schedule to the principal Regulations is amended by deleting the words “or (1A)” and substituting the words “, (1A) or (1D)”.

[G.N. No. S 256/2006]

Made this 3rd day of December 2007.

LAM YI YOUNG

Secretary,
Armed Forces Council,
Singapore.

[MINDEF 4-4/26-3-10/ML; AG/LEG/SL/295/2002/1 Vol. 7]

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

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