Singapore legislation
Clause 10
of Reciprocal Enforcement of Foreign Judgments (Amendment) Bill
Clause 10
Saving and transitional provisions
(1)
Any order made before the date of commencement of this Act (called in this section the appointed date) under section 3 of the principal Act as in force immediately before that date, which —
extends Part I of the principal Act to a foreign country; and
deems a specified court of the foreign country as a superior court of that country for the purposes of Part I of the principal Act,has effect beginning on the appointed date as an order made under section 3 of the principal Act as if —
the order directed that that court is a recognised court of that foreign country for those purposes; and
the order directed that final money judgments of that court that are within section 3(2) of the principal Act are judgments to which Part I of the principal Act applies.
(2)
In determining, for the purposes of Part I of the principal Act, whether a judgment mentioned in subsection (1)(d) is one to which that Part applies, section 3(2)(b) of the principal Act is omitted.
(3)
In the application of the principal Act to a judgment of a court mentioned in subsection (1) that was registered before the appointed date, a reference to “judgment” —
is a reference to any judgment or order given or made by a court in any civil proceedings, by which any sum of money is made payable (not being a sum payable in respect of taxes or other charges of a similar nature or in respect of a fine or other penalty); and
includes an award in proceedings on an arbitration if the award has, in pursuance of the law in force in the place where it was made, become enforceable in the same manner as a judgment given by a court in that place.
(4)
For a period of 2 years after the appointed date, the Minister may, by regulations, prescribe such additional provisions of a saving or transitional nature consequent on the enactment of any provision of this Act as the Minister may consider necessary or expedient.