Singapore legislation
Section 8
Section 8
Rules of Court and Family Justice Rules
(1)
Subject to this section, the power to make Rules of Court under section 80 of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1969, and the power to make Family Justice Rules under section 46 of the Family Justice Act 2014, shall include power to make Rules of Court and Family Justice Rules, respectively, for the following purposes:
for making provision with respect to the giving of security for costs by persons applying for the registration of judgments;
for prescribing the matters to be proved on an application for the registration of a judgment and for regulating the mode of proving those matters;
for providing for the service on the judgment debtor of notice of the registration of a judgment;
for making provision with respect to the fixing of the period within which an application may be made to have the registration of the judgment set aside and with respect to the extension of the period so fixed;
for prescribing the method by which any question arising under this Act whether a foreign judgment can be enforced by execution in the country of the original court, or what interest is payable under a foreign judgment under the law of the original court, is to be determined;
for prescribing any matter which under this Part is to be prescribed.
(2)
Such Rules of Court and Family Justice Rules shall be expressed to have and shall have effect subject to any such provisions contained in orders made under section 3 as are declared by the orders to be necessary for giving effect to agreements made between the Minister and the foreign countries in relation to matters with respect to which there is power to make the Rules of Court and Family Justice Rules.