Singapore legislation
Section 13
Section 13
Registry
(1)
There is established and maintained a Registry of Small Claims Tribunals in which all records of the tribunals must be kept.
(2)
The record of a tribunal consists of —
claims lodged with the tribunal by claimants;
summaries of the facts of the issues in dispute in respect of those claims as determined and recorded by the tribunal during the hearing of the claims; and
orders made by the tribunal in relation to those claims.
(3)
Any party to the claim is, upon payment of a prescribed fee, entitled to a copy of the record of a tribunal and such record is admissible in evidence before any other court for the purposes of any proceedings before that court.
(4)
The record of a tribunal relating to any claim must be kept for a period of one year after the date of the order made by the tribunal in relation to the claim or, where there is an appeal against the order to the General Division of the High Court, one year after the conclusion of the appeal.