Enlistment Regulations 1970

Enlistment Act 1970

(Section 37)

2024 REVISED EDITION

(18 December 2024)

[1 August 1970]

PART 1

GENERAL

Citation

1. These Regulations are the Enlistment Regulations 1970.

Definitions

2. In these Regulations —

“armed forces property” includes property in the possession, control or occupancy of the armed forces;

“Commander” means the Commander of the Central Manpower Base and includes the Deputy Commander of the Central Manpower Base;

“examinee” means a person required to report for fitness examination under section 3(1) of the Act;

“operationally ready national serviceman” means a person in operationally ready national service under section 14(1) of the Act;

“registrant” means a person required to report for registration under section 3(1) of the Act.

PART 2

REGISTRATION

Disclosure of particulars

3. A registrant must disclose to the proper authority the following particulars:

(a)	name, including former names (if any) and the correct spelling of the name;
(b)	identity card number;
(c)	place of residence;
(d)	place and date of birth;
(e)	sex;
(f)	race and religion;
(g)	citizenship;
(h)	marital status;
(i)	education, vocation, skill, qualifications and experience;
(j)	occupation or employment, including past occupations and employment, income, the names and addresses of his employers, the period of his occupation and employment, and his Central Provident Fund number;
(k)	particulars of his next-of-kin and dependants, including their occupations;
(l)	state of health and physical condition;
(m)	possession of driving licence;
(n)	hobbies;
(o)	membership of any organisation or service;
(p)	previous military experience;
(q)	any other particulars which may be considered necessary by the proper authority.

Information in respect of registrants

4. A person in charge of an educational institution, reformative training centre, prison or hospital and any employer must comply with an order issued by the proper authority to submit information in respect of registrants, regarding the particulars mentioned in regulation 3.

Certificates and documents

5. A registrant must submit for inspection to the proper authority the following certificates and documents:

(a)	birth certificate;
(b)	identity card;
(c)	medical or health certificates;
(d)	Central Provident Fund membership card or other approved provident or pension fund membership card;
(e)	citizenship certificate (if any);
(f)	social welfare assistance card (if any);
(g)	any other certificate or document, as the proper authority may consider necessary, to support the accuracy of particulars to be disclosed under regulation 3.

Endorsement

6. The proper authority may endorse any document submitted to the proper authority for inspection under regulation 5.

Manner of registration

7.—(1) A registrant in Singapore must report in person in accordance with the registration notice and must disclose the particulars mentioned in regulation 3, either orally or in writing, as the proper authority may direct.

(2) A registrant outside Singapore upon becoming liable under section 3 of the Act must forthwith inform the Commander of his place of residence by means of registered post.

(3) A registrant outside Singapore must, upon an order of the proper authority, disclose any of the particulars mentioned in regulation 3 and produce any certificate or document mentioned in regulation 5 by means of registered post or in any other manner as the proper authority may from time to time direct.

Change of particulars

8.—(1) A registrant must, subject to paragraph (2), inform the Commander within 7 days of any change in his name, place of residence, employment, occupation, educational qualifications or in any of the other particulars recorded in the registration certificate issued to him under regulation 38.

(2) Where a registrant who has changed his place of residence makes a report of the change under section 8 of the National Registration Act 1965 within 7 days thereof, he is deemed to have informed the Commander of the change in his place of residence in compliance with paragraph (1).

PART 3

FITNESS FOR SERVICE

Medical boards

9.—(1) A medical board consists of a chairman and 2 members.

(2) Any medical officer of the armed forces is eligible to be a member of a medical board.

(3) Subject to these Regulations, the chairman of a medical board must be —

(a)	the Medical Officer, Central Manpower Base; or
(b)	the second-in-command of the Medical Officer, Central Manpower Base.

(4) Medical boards are to be convened by the proper authority.

Medical information

10.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), medical information in respect of any examinee, obtained in the course of an examination conducted under the Act, must not be disclosed to any unauthorised person.

(2) The chairman of a medical board may disclose medical information in respect of any examinee to —

(a)	any registered medical practitioner acting on behalf of the examinee; and
(b)	any other person as may be authorised to receive such information by the proper authority.

Result of examination

11. An examinee may, upon the completion of his fitness examination, apply to the Commander to be informed whether he was found fit for service.

Deterioration in health

12. An examinee who has been found fit for service must forthwith inform the Medical Officer, Central Manpower Base, of any disease, infirmity or injury having effect on his medical fitness contracted or sustained after being found fit for service.

Persons unfit for service

13.—(1) The proper authority must release any national serviceman or regular serviceman who is found unfit for service.

(2) In exercising the proper authority’s powers to release a national serviceman or regular serviceman for being medically unfit, the proper authority must act upon the advice of a medical board consisting of 3 registered medical practitioners nominated by the Director of Manpower.