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Formal Consolidation |  2007 RevEd
List of touts
62.—(1)  The Senior District Judge may frame and publish a list of persons proved to his satisfaction, by evidence of general repute or otherwise, to act as touts or unauthorised advisers to suitors or other persons, and may alter and amend the list.
(2)  The Senior District Judge may, by general or special order, exclude from the precincts of the subordinate courts any person whose name is included in the list, except when such person is a party to or a witness in any proceedings in a subordinate court, when he shall be allowed to remain for such time as is necessary.
(3)  No person’s name shall be included in the list until he has been heard or had an opportunity of being heard against such inclusion.
(4)  An appeal shall lie to a Judge of the High Court in chambers from an order made by the Senior District Judge to include a person’s name in the list.
[16/93]
(5)  The decision of the Judge of the High Court shall be final.
[16/93]
(6)  A copy of the list shall be kept hung up in the office or offices of the subordinate courts and shall be published in the Gazette.
(7)  A person whose name appears in the list of touts under section 73 of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act (Cap. 322) shall be deemed to be included in the list under this section, and vice versa.
Informal Consolidation | Amended Act 40 of 2019
List of touts
62.—(1)  The Presiding Judge of the State Courts may frame and publish a list of persons proved to his satisfaction, by evidence of general repute or otherwise, to act as touts or unauthorised advisers to suitors or other persons, and may alter and amend the list.
[4/2010 wef 17/02/2010]
[Act 5 of 2014 wef 14/04/2014]
(2)  The Presiding Judge of the State Courts may, by general or special order, exclude from the precincts of the State Courts any person whose name is included in the list, except when such person is a party to or a witness in any proceedings in a State Court, when he shall be allowed to remain for such time as is necessary.
[4/2010 wef 17/02/2010]
[Act 5 of 2014 wef 07/03/2014]
[Act 5 of 2014 wef 14/04/2014]
(3)  No person’s name shall be included in the list until he has been heard or had an opportunity of being heard against such inclusion.
(4)  An appeal shall lie to a Judge sitting in chambers in the General Division of the High Court from an order made by the Presiding Judge of the State Courts to include a person’s name in the list.
[16/93]
[4/2010 wef 17/02/2010]
[Act 5 of 2014 wef 14/04/2014]
[Act 40 of 2019 wef 02/01/2021]
(5)  The decision of the Judge shall be final.
[16/93]
[Act 40 of 2019 wef 02/01/2021]
(6)  A copy of the list shall be kept hung up in the office or offices of the State Courts and shall be published in the Gazette.
[Act 5 of 2014 wef 07/03/2014]
(7)  A person whose name appears in the list of touts under section 73 of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act (Cap. 322), or the list of touts under section 39 of the Family Justice Act 2014, shall be deemed to be included in the list under this section, and vice versa.
[Act 27 of 2014 wef 01/10/2014]