Clause 5

by inserting, immediately after the definition of “appeal” in section 2(1), the following definition:“ “country” includes a territory;”;

by inserting, immediately after the definition of “country of the original court” in section 2(1), the following definition:“ “foreign country” means any country outside Singapore which is not part of the Commonwealth;”;

by inserting, immediately after subsection (4) of section 3, the following subsection:“(5) An order directing that this Part shall extend to a foreign country may provide that the order shall come into operation on a date before, on or after the date of commencement of the Probate and Administration (Amendment) Act 1998.”; and

by renumbering section 7 as subsection (1) of that section, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following subsections:“(2) Where the date of coming into operation of the relevant order is before the date it is published in the Gazette, subsection (1) shall apply only to proceedings commenced in any court in Singapore on or after the date the relevant order is published in the Gazette.(3) In subsection (2), “relevant order” means the order made under section 3 by virtue of which the foreign judgment is a judgment to which this Part applies.”.