Singapore legislation

Clause 12

of Singapore Academy of Law (Amendment) Bill

Clause 12

Consequential amendments to Supreme Court of Judicature Act

Section 68 of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act [Cap. 322] is amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “Chief Justice” in the first lines of subsections (2) and (3) and substituting in each case the words “Senate of the Singapore Academy of Law”;

(b)

by inserting, immediately after the words “charged by,” in the second line of subsection (3), the words “fees payable to the Singapore Academy of Law by,”;

(c)

by deleting the word “him” in the last line of subsection (3) and substituting the words “the Senate”; and

(d)

by inserting, immediately after subsection (3), the following subsection:“(4) Any person who, immediately before the date of commencement of section 12 of the Singapore Academy of Law (Amendment) Act 1995, is a commissioner for oaths shall continue in office for a period of 3 months from that date and shall thereafter cease to be a commissioner for oaths unless he is reappointed before the expiry of that period.”.