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Formal Consolidation |  1985 RevEd
Jurisdiction in personam of Court in collision and other similar cases
5.—(1)  The Court shall not entertain an action in personam to enforce a claim to which this section applies unless —
(a)the defendant has his habitual residence or a place of business within Singapore;
(b)the cause of action arose within inland waters of Singapore or within the limits of the port of Singapore; or
(c)an action arising out of the same incident or series of incidents is proceeding in the Court or has been heard and determined in the Court.
(2)  The Court shall not entertain an action in personam to enforce a claim to which this section applies until any proceedings previously brought by the plaintiff in any court outside Singapore against the same defendant in respect of the same incident or series of incidents have been discontinued or otherwise come to an end.
(3)  Subsections (1) and (2) shall apply to counter-claims (not being counter-claims in proceedings arising out of the same incident or series of incidents) as they apply to actions in personam, but as if the references to the plaintiff and the defendant were respectively references to the plaintiff on the counter-claim and the defendant to the counter-claim.
(4)  Subsections (1) to (3) shall not apply to any action or counter-claim if the defendant thereto submits or has agreed to submit to the jurisdiction of the Court.
(5)  Subject to subsection (2), the Court shall have jurisdiction to entertain an action in personam to enforce a claim to which this section applies whenever any of the conditions specified in subsection (1)(a) to (c) are satisfied, and the Rules of Court relating to the service of process outside the jurisdiction shall make such provision as may appear to the rule-making authority to be appropriate having regard to this subsection.
(6)  The claims to which this section applies are claims for damage, loss of life or personal injury arising out of a collision between ships or out of the carrying out of or omission to carry out a manoeuvre in the case of one or more of two or more ships or out of non-compliance, on the part of one or more of two or more ships, with the collision regulations.
(7)  In this section —
“collision regulations” means regulations made under section 418 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 [U.K. 1894 c. 60.], regulations made under section 208 of the Merchant Shipping Act [Cap. 179] and any regulations made under section 66(1) of the Port of Singapore Authority Act [Cap. 236] for or in respect of any of the matters mentioned in paragraph (i) of that subsection;
“inland waters of Singapore” includes any part of the sea adjacent to the coast of Singapore certified by the Minister to be waters falling by international law to be within the territorial sovereignty of Singapore apart from the operation of that law in relation to territorial waters;
“port of Singapore” means any place or places and any navigable river or channel leading into such place or places declared to be the port under section 3 of the Port of Singapore Authority Act and “the limits of the port” means the limits thereof as defined in the declaration.
Informal Consolidation | Amended Act 7 of 1997
Jurisdiction in personam of Court in collision and other similar cases
5.—(1)  The Court shall not entertain an action in personam to enforce a claim to which this section applies unless —
(a)the defendant has his habitual residence or a place of business within Singapore;
(b)the cause of action arose within inland waters of Singapore or within the limits of the port of Singapore; or
(c)an action arising out of the same incident or series of incidents is proceeding in the Court or has been heard and determined in the Court.
(2)  The Court shall not entertain an action in personam to enforce a claim to which this section applies until any proceedings previously brought by the plaintiff in any court outside Singapore against the same defendant in respect of the same incident or series of incidents have been discontinued or otherwise come to an end.
(3)  Subsections (1) and (2) shall apply to counter-claims (not being counter-claims in proceedings arising out of the same incident or series of incidents) as they apply to actions in personam, but as if the references to the plaintiff and the defendant were respectively references to the plaintiff on the counter-claim and the defendant to the counter-claim.
(4)  Subsections (1) to (3) shall not apply to any action or counter-claim if the defendant thereto submits or has agreed to submit to the jurisdiction of the Court.
(5)  Subject to subsection (2), the Court shall have jurisdiction to entertain an action in personam to enforce a claim to which this section applies whenever any of the conditions specified in subsection (1)(a) to (c) are satisfied, and the Rules of Court relating to the service of process outside the jurisdiction shall make such provision as may appear to the rule-making authority to be appropriate having regard to this subsection.
(6)  The claims to which this section applies are claims for damage, loss of life or personal injury arising out of a collision between ships or out of the carrying out of or omission to carry out a manoeuvre in the case of one or more of two or more ships or out of non-compliance, on the part of one or more of two or more ships, with the collision regulations.
(7)  In this section —
“collision regulations” means the regulations made under section 100(2)(h) of the Merchant Shipping Act (Chapter 179) and any regulations made under subsection (1) of section 41 of the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore Act (Chapter 170A) for or in respect of any of the matters mentioned in paragraph (d) of that subsection;
[7/97 wef 01/10/1997]
“inland waters of Singapore” includes any part of the sea adjacent to the coast of Singapore certified by the Minister to be waters falling by international law to be within the territorial sovereignty of Singapore apart from the operation of that law in relation to territorial waters;
“port of Singapore” means any place or places and any navigable river or channel leading into such place or places declared to be the port under section 3 of the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore Act 1996 and “the limits of the port” means the limits thereof as defined in the declaration.
[Act 7/96 wef 02/02/1996]