Singapore legislation
Clause 13
Clause 13
New sections 56A and 56B
The principal Act is amended by inserting, immediately after section 56, the following sections:“Decision of Court and Appeal Board to be final56A. Subject to the provisions of this Act, any decision of the Court or the Appeal Board shall be final and conclusive, and no decision or order of the Court or the Appeal Board shall be challenged, appealed against, reviewed, quashed or called into question in any court and shall not be subject to certiorari, prohibition, mandamus or injunction in any court on any account.Protection of members and officers of Court56B.—
A member of the Court shall not be liable to be sued for any act done by him in the discharge of his judicial duty, whether or not within the limits of his jurisdiction, if he at the time in good faith believed himself to have jurisdiction to do or order the act complained of.(2) No officer of the Court or any other person expressly authorised by the Court charged with the duty of executing any writ, summons, warrant, order, notice or other mandatory process of the Court shall be liable to be sued for the execution of or attempting to execute the writ, summons, warrant, order, notice or other mandatory process, or in respect of any damage caused to any property in effecting or attempting to effect execution, unless he knowingly acted in excess of the authority conferred upon him by the writ, summons, warrant, order, notice or other mandatory process.(3) The officer or other person referred to in subsection (2) shall not be deemed to have acted knowingly in excess of his authority merely by reason of the existence of a dispute as to the ownership of any property seized under any writ or order of execution.”.