Rules of Court (Amendment No. 7) Rules 2021

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 27 Aug 2021

No. S 640

Supreme Court of Judicature Act

(CHAPTER 322)

Rules of Court
(Amendment No. 7) Rules 2021

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 80 of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act and all other powers enabling us under any written law, we, the Rules Committee, make the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1. These Rules are the Rules of Court (Amendment No. 7) Rules 2021 and come into operation on 16 September 2021.

Amendment of Order 92

2. Order 92 of the Rules of Court (R 5) is amended by deleting Rule 1A and substituting the following Rule:

“Use of foreign documents under Apostille Convention or Civil Procedure Convention (O. 92, r. 1A)

1A.—(1) Despite these Rules, the following documents may be received, filed or used in the Court:

(a)	a foreign public document with an apostille placed on or attached to it;
(b)	a document or a translation of the document that has been drawn up or certified, and duly sealed, by a court or other competent authority of a foreign country, being a country with which there subsists a Civil Procedure Convention providing for the dispensation of the authentication of such documents.

(2) In this Rule —

“apostille” means a Convention certificate as defined by section 10 of the Apostille Act 2020 (Act 38 of 2020);

“foreign public document” has the meaning given by section 6 of the Apostille Act 2020.”.

[G.N. Nos. S 299/2014; S 390/2014; S 671/2014; S 714/2014; S 753/2014; S 850/2014; S 175/2015; S 278/2015; S 756/2015; S 235/2016; S 474/2016; S 105/2017; S 322/2017; S 543/2017; S 51/2018; S 183/2018; S 697/2018; S 850/2018; S 707/2019; S 773/2019; S 35/2020; S 220/2020; S 458/2020; S 636/2020; S 1043/2020; S 35/2021; S 71/2021; S 357/2021; S 363/2021; S 382/2021; S 635/2021]

Made on 23 August 2021.

SUNDARESH MENON

Chief Justice.

LUCIEN WONG

Attorney-General.

TAY YONG KWANG

Justice of the Court of Appeal.

STEVEN CHONG

Justice of the Court of Appeal.

BELINDA ANG SAW EAN

Judge of the Appellate Division.

QUENTIN LOH

Judge of the Appellate Division.

VINODH COOMARASWAMY

Judge.

VINCENT HOONG SENG LEI

Presiding Judge of the State Courts.

CHRISTOPHER TAN PHENG WEE

District Judge and Registrar of the State Courts.

FRANCIS XAVIER, SC

Advocate and Solicitor.

KUAH BOON THENG, SC

Advocate and Solicitor.

[SUPCT.RNJ.009.0200; LAW 06/018/012; AG/LEGIS/SL/322/2020/1 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 80(6) of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act).

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