Clause 36

Any person may, upon application to the Registrar and upon payment of the prescribed fee, obtain a copy of or extract from any information contained in the Register of Marriages or Register of Revocation of Divorces (including a copy or extract that is certified by the Registrar to be a true copy or extract).(2) The Register of Divorces, and the general index of that Register, are to be open to inspection by any person upon payment of the prescribed fee.(3) A president or the registrar of the Syariah Court must furnish a copy of an entry in the Register of Divorces, certified under the signature and seal of office of the president of the Syariah Court, to any person requiring that copy, upon the payment of the prescribed fee by that person.Proof144.—

Each of the following, if certified by the Registrar to be a true copy or extract, is in any proceedings in any court or tribunal in Singapore admissible in evidence as of equal validity with the original document containing the information or the original record (as the case may be):

a copy of or extract from any information contained in the Register of Marriages or Register of Revocation of Divorces;

a copy of or extract from any record contained in the Register of Marriages or Register of Revocation of Divorces (including a copy of or extract from any record produced from a microfilm or digital image).(2) The Register of Divorces, and any copy of an entry in that Register certified under the signature and seal of office of any president of the Syariah Court to be a true copy, is prima facie evidence in any court or tribunal in Singapore of the dates and acts contained or set out in that Register or copy.”.