Maintenance of Parents Act - Singapore Statutes Online

Appeals to General Division of High Court

18.—(1) Except as provided in this section and sections 16 and 17, the decision of the Tribunal shall be final.

(2) The applicant, the Commissioner on behalf of the applicant, a respondent, an approved person or organisation or any other affected party may appeal to the General Division of the High Court from the decision of the Tribunal upon any question of law or of mixed law and fact except in any case where the Tribunal has made the order with the consent of the parties, including a maintenance order made by the President or deputy President and deemed to be a maintenance order made by the Tribunal under section 5(2A), unless it is alleged that the consent was obtained by means of fraud, duress, threat or misrepresentation.

[37/2010 wef 15/03/2011]

[Act 40 of 2019 wef 02/01/2021]

(3) The procedure governing any such appeal to the General Division of the High Court shall be as provided for in the Family Justice Rules.

[Act 27 of 2014 wef 01/01/2015]

[Act 40 of 2019 wef 02/01/2021]

(4) The General Division of the High Court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine any such appeal and may confirm, vary or annul the decision of the Tribunal on appeal and make such further or other order on such appeal, whether as to costs or otherwise, as the General Division of the High Court may consider fit.

[Act 40 of 2019 wef 02/01/2021]

(5) An appeal against the decision of the General Division of the High Court on an appeal under subsection (2) may only be brought with the leave of the General Division of the High Court, and leave must not be granted unless —

(a)	a question of law of public interest has arisen in the appeal under subsection (2); and
(b)	the determination of the question by the General Division of the High Court has affected the outcome of the appeal under subsection (2). [Act 40 of 2019 wef 02/01/2021]

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