Singapore Armed Forces (Detention and Imprisonment) Regulations

Singapore Armed Forces Act

(CHAPTER 295, Section 205)

Rg 3

G.N. No. S 119/2003

REVISED EDITION 2005

(31st March 2005)

[12th March 2003]

PART I

preliminary

Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Singapore Armed Forces (Detention and Imprisonment) Regulations.

Definitions

2. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —

“close arrest” means the arrest and custody of a serviceman in any detention barrack or designated place pending investigation or trial;

“close arrestee” means a serviceman under close arrest;

“Commandant” means an officer appointed by the Director, Manpower to manage a detention barrack or military prison;

“Commander, SAF MP Command” means the Commander of the Singapore Armed Forces Military Police Command at the relevant time;

[S 370/2008 wef 01/09/2006]

“detainee” means a serviceman under sentence and in custody in a detention barrack;

“detention barrack” means a place designated for the custody of —

(a)	servicemen sentenced to detention by disciplinary officers or a subordinate military court; and
(b)	servicemen under close arrest;

“military prison” means a place designated for the custody of servicemen sentenced to imprisonment by a subordinate military court;

“military prisoner” means a serviceman under any sentence of imprisonment imposed by a subordinate military court;

“serviceman under sentence” means a serviceman under a sentence of detention imposed by a disciplinary officer or a subordinate military court.

[G.N. No. S 119/2003]

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