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An ICT can create four different work questions: what to say during recruitment, when to notify an employer, whether leave must be granted, and how pay is handled. Deferment is a fifth question controlled by MINDEF, not by the employer.

Keeping those lanes separate makes it easier to protect both the NS record and the employment record when dates collide.

This guide is unofficial and is not legal advice. The Enlistment Act, current MINDEF instructions, employment documents, official agency guidance and professional advice override it. Sources were checked on 31 August 2026.

SAF100 acknowledgement is easy to treat as a button-click task until something clashes with it.

Then it becomes a record problem: did you acknowledge, did your employer know, did travel conflict, did you apply for deferment, and can you prove the sequence?

This guide treats SAF100 as the start of an admin trail, not just a notice.