Singapore Armed Forces (Authorised Deductions) Regulations

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as at 21 Apr 2025

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Singapore Armed Forces Act

(Chapter 295, Sections 192 and 205)

Singapore Armed Forces (Authorised Deductions) Regulations

Rg 20

G.N. No. S 614/1998

REVISED EDITION 2000

(31st January 2000)

[24th December 1998]

Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Singapore Armed Forces (Authorised Deductions) Regulations.

Authorised deductions

2.—(1) The following deductions may be made from the pay of a serviceman:

(a)	the sum required to settle any outstanding loan, or any part thereof, which is made by the Government to the serviceman and which has become due;
(b)	the sum required to settle any interest payable under any loan or other agreement between the Government and the serviceman;
(c)	the sum required to settle any overpayment of pay made by the Government to the serviceman;
(d)	the sum required to settle any overpayment of an advance or allowance made by the Government to the serviceman;
(da)	the sum required to recover any debt owed by the serviceman to the Government, including any liquidated damages payable under any scholarship or award;
(e)	the sum equivalent to the subscription fee or charge for any publication of the Singapore Armed Forces or the Ministry of Defence issued to the serviceman;
(f)	the sum required to settle any subscription fee due from the serviceman to the Singapore Armed Forces Sports Association, any Singapore Armed Forces Mess Society, the Singapore Armed Forces Officers’ Club (“Temasek Club”) or the Singapore Armed Forces Warrant Officers and Specialists Club (“The Chevrons”);
(g)	any sum which the serviceman has given consent in writing or by electronic means to have deducted from his pay;
(h)	[Deleted by S 362/2024 wef 01/05/2024]
(i)	in respect of a regular serviceman, a sum as the regular serviceman’s contribution to SHARE, unless the regular serviceman opts out of making that contribution in the form and manner provided by the Armed Forces Council. [S 54/2022 wef 01/02/2022]

[S 54/2022 wef 01/02/2022]

(2) In this regulation, “SHARE” means the regular giving programme administered by the Community Chest established under section 13(1) of the National Council of Social Service Act 1992.

[S 54/2022 wef 01/02/2022]

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