Singapore legislation

Section 15

of Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1975

Section 15

Order, etc., made abroad need not be proved

For the purposes of this Act, unless the contrary is shown —

(a)

any order made by a court in a reciprocating country purporting to bear the seal of that court or to be signed by any person in the person’s capacity as a judge, magistrate or officer of the court, is deemed without further proof to have been duly sealed or signed by that person, as the case may be;

(b)

the person by whom the order was signed is deemed without further proof to have been a judge, magistrate or officer (as the case may be) of that court when the person signed it and, in the case of an officer, to have been authorised to sign it; and

(c)

a document purporting to be a certified copy of an order made by a court in a reciprocating country is deemed without further proof to be such a copy.

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