Singapore legislation
Section 53
Section 53
Enforcement of order
(1)
Where the Court has made any of the following orders, whether before, on or after 1 March 2009, such order may be treated as a maintenance order made by a Family Court under the Women’s Charter 1961, including a maintenance order for the purposes of Part 9 of the Women’s Charter 1961, solely for the purpose of the enforcement of that order by the Family Court:
an order for the payment of maintenance under section 51(1), (2) or (3);
an order for the payment of a consolatory gift or mutaah under section 52(2) or (3)(b);
an order for the maintenance of a minor child under section 52(3)(c).
(2)
Where the Court has made any of the following orders, whether before, on or after 1 March 2009, such order may be treated as an order made by a Family Court solely for the purpose of the enforcement of that order by the Family Court:
an order for the payment of emas kahwin and marriage expenses (hantaran belanja) under section 52(1) or (3)(a);
an order for the custody of a minor child under section 52(3)(c);
an order for the disposition or division of property under section 52(3)(d).
(3)
For the purposes of subsection (1), the provisions of the Women’s Charter 1961 apply, with the necessary modifications, to the enforcement of any order of the Court referred to in that subsection by the Family Court.
(4)
A Family Court has jurisdiction to enforce any order in accordance with this section regardless of the monetary amount involved.
(5)
In enforcing a custody order under subsection (2), a Family Court may exercise the powers conferred by section 14 of the Guardianship of Infants Act 1934.
(6)
Where, on or after the commencement of proceedings in a Family Court for the enforcement of an order made by the Syariah Court pursuant to subsection (1) or (2), a party aggrieved by that order has made any application under section 55 or commenced any proceedings in any court affecting that order, the Family Court may, on its own motion or on the application of any party, stay the proceedings for the enforcement of that order on such terms as it thinks fit.
(7)
The Family Justice Rules Committee constituted under section 46(1) of the Family Justice Act 2014 may make Family Justice Rules —
to regulate and prescribe the procedure and practice to be followed in any proceedings commenced in a Family Court pursuant to subsection (1) or (2); and
to provide for any matter relating to any such procedure or practice.
(8)
The Family Justice Rules may, instead of providing for any matter, refer to any provision made or to be made about that matter by practice directions issued for the time being by the registrar of the Family Justice Courts.