Singapore legislation
Section 9A
Section 9A
Name of child
Amended by32/201632/2016
(1)
The name of a child to be entered in a register of births in respect of the registration of the child’s birth and, where the child’s name in the register is to be altered, the child’s altered name to be entered in the register —
(a)
must be in a form expressed in characters in the modern English alphabet;
(b)
may include a permitted character; and
(c)
must not exceed the number of characters permitted in the electronic form of the register for the entry of a name.
Amended by32/2016
(2)
In subsection (1)(b), “permitted character” means a character that the Registrar‑General, by notification in the Gazette, specifies.
Amended by32/2016