Judicial Committee (Amendment) Bill

Bill No. 25/1989

Read the first time on 28th March 1989.

An Act to amend the Judicial Committee Act (Chapter 148 of the 1985 Revised Edition).

Be it enacted by the President with the advice and consent of the Parliament of Singapore, as follows:

Short title and commencement

1. This Act may be cited as the Judicial Committee (Amendment) Act 1989 and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint.

Amendment of section 3

2. Section 3 of the Judicial Committee Act (referred to in this Act as the principal Act) is amended —

(a)

by deleting the word “An” in the first line of subsection (1) and substituting the words “Subject to subsection (3), an”;

(b)

by deleting the word “An” in the first line of subsection (2) and substituting the words “Subject to subsection (3), an”;

(c)

by deleting the word “; and” at the end of subsection (2)(b) and substituting a comma;

(d)

by deleting subsection (2)(c); and

(e)

by inserting, immediately after subsection (2), the following subsections:

“(3) Notwithstanding subsections (1) and (2), no appeal shall lie from the appellate court to the Judicial Committee in any case arising in a civil matter except between those parties to the proceedings who have at any time before the hearing of the case by the appellate court consented in writing to be bound by an appeal to the Judicial Committee in that case; and the appeal shall not affect any party to the proceedings who has not so consented.

(4) No appeal shall lie from the appellate court to the Judicial Committee in any criminal matter except in any case where —

(a)	the offence is punishable with death or imprisonment for life; and
(b)	the decision of the appellate court is not unanimous.”.

Amendment of section 6

3. Section 6 of the principal Act is amended by deleting the word “The” in the first line and substituting the words “Subject to this Act, the”.

Transitional provisions

4. This Act shall not apply to any appeal, application for leave or application for special leave to appeal made under the principal Act against any decision of the appellate court given before the commencement of this Act; and the principal Act shall continue to apply to such appeal, application for leave or application for special leave to appeal as if this Act had not been enacted.

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