9.—(1) Where a document is required under the Criminal Procedure Code to be filed with, served on, delivered or otherwise conveyed to the Supreme Court or the Registrar, it must be so filed, served, delivered or otherwise conveyed —
(a)
using the electronic filing service in accordance with these Regulations; and
(b)
in accordance with any other requirements as may be determined by the Registrar.
(2) For the purpose of paragraph (1), any requirement for the filing, service, delivery or otherwise conveyance of a document is satisfied by the filing, service, delivery or otherwise conveyance of a single copy of the document using the electronic filing service in accordance with these Regulations.
(3) The filing, service, delivery or conveyance of any document using the electronic filing service pursuant to paragraph (1) may be done —
(a)
by electronic transmission; or
(b)
via a service bureau.
(4) Notwithstanding anything in paragraph (1), the Registrar may allow a document, part of a document or any class of documents to be filed, served, delivered or otherwise conveyed other than by using the electronic filing service.
(5) The form of any document shall be as set out —
(a)
in such form as the Registrar may require; or
(b)
where the document is remotely composed on the computer system of the electronic filing service provider, in the form made available through the electronic filing service,
and shall, in the absence of such prescription, be in the form prescribed by the Criminal Procedure Code (Prescribed Forms) Regulations 2010 (G.N. No. S 811/2010).
(6) Any document which is filed with, served on, delivered or otherwise conveyed to the Supreme Court or the Registrar through the electronic filing service by a registered user using an identification code shall be deemed to have been so filed, served, delivered or otherwise conveyed by the registered user and with his intention to do so.
(7) Any document which is filed with, served on, delivered or otherwise conveyed to the Supreme Court or the Registrar through the electronic filing service by an authorised user (other than an employee of a service bureau) using an identification code shall be deemed to have been so filed, served, delivered or otherwise conveyed —
(a)
by the authorised user on behalf and with the authority of the registered user to whom the authorised user belongs; and
(b)
with the intention of that registered user to do so.
(8) Any document which is filed with, served on, delivered or otherwise conveyed to the Supreme Court or the Registrar through the electronic filing service by an authorised user, who is an employee of a service bureau, using an identification code shall be deemed to have been so filed, served, delivered or otherwise conveyed —
(a)
on behalf and with the authority of the person tendering the document to the service bureau for such purpose and with the intention of that person to do so; or
(b)
where the person tendering the document to the service bureau is acting as agent for his principal, on behalf and with the authority of his principal and with the intention of the principal to do so.
(9) For the avoidance of doubt, it is declared that any document which is filed with, served on, delivered or otherwise conveyed to the Supreme Court or the Registrar using an identification code in compliance with the security procedures of the electronic filing service is a secure electronic record within the meaning of the Electronic Transactions Act (Cap. 88).