Singapore legislation

Clause 3

of Women’s Charter (Amendment) Bill

Clause 3

Amendment of section 3

Section 3 of the Ordinance is hereby amended —

(a)

by deleting the expression “Subject to the provisions of subsection (2) of this section” appearing at the beginning of subsection (1) thereof and substituting therefor the words “Save as is otherwise expressly provided”;

(b)

by deleting the word “resident” appearing in the second and third lines of subsection (1) thereof;

(c)

by deleting the expression “section 166” appearing in the first line of subsection (2) thereof and substituting therefor the expression “sections 166 and 166A”;

(d)

by substituting a colon for the full-stop appearing at the end of subsection (2) thereof and by adding thereto the following proviso: —“Provided that the provisions of sections 4, 5 and 6 of this Ordinance shall apply to any person who contracts or purports to contract any such marriage during the subsistence of a marriage registered or deemed to be registered under the provisions of this Ordinance or which was contracted under a law providing that or in contemplation of which the marriage is monogamous.”; and

(e)

by deleting the words “one of the parties to which is a Muslim” appearing in the first line of subsection (3) thereof and substituting therefor the words “both of the parties to which are Muslims”.

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