Women’s Charter (Solemnisation and Registration of Marriages) Rules 2023

No. S 635

Women’s Charter 1961

Women’s Charter
(Solemnisation and Registration of Marriages)
Rules 2023

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 180 of the Women’s Charter 1961, the Minister for Social and Family Development makes the following Rules:

PART 1

PRELIMINARY

Citation and commencement

1. These Rules are the Women’s Charter (Solemnisation and Registration of Marriages) Rules 2023 and come into operation on 25 September 2023.

Forms

2.—(1) A reference in these Rules to a lettered form is a reference to the current version or versions of the form with the same letter as set out on the specified website.

(2) The specified website may set out one version of a form to be used for personal submission to the Registrar and another version of the same form to be used for electronic submission to the Registrar, but the 2 versions must not be substantially different.

(3) In this rule, “specified website” means https://www.marriage.gov.sg.

Submission of documents to Registrar

3.—(1) Where these Rules require a document to be submitted personally to the Registrar, the document must be submitted in person at the offices of the Registrar.

(2) Where these Rules require a document to be submitted personally or electronically to the Registrar, the document must be submitted —

(a)	in person at the offices of the Registrar; or
(b)	except in such cases as the Registrar may specify, through the electronic submission system.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(b), the Registrar —

(a)	must establish and maintain an electronic submission system at the specified website; and
(b)	may specify on the specified website the cases where electronic submission is not allowed.

(4) In this rule, “specified website” means https://www.marriage.gov.sg.

Waiver, reduction and refund of fees

4. The Registrar may waive, reduce or refund in whole or in part any fee paid or payable under these Rules in any particular case.

Made on 12 September 2023.

AUBECK KAM

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Social and Family Development,
Singapore.

[MSF 105-100-04-1; AG/LEGIS/SL/353/2020/3 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 180(2)(a) of the Women’s Charter 1961).

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