Singapore legislation

Clause 24

of Supreme Court of Judicature (Amendment) Bill

Clause 24

Miscellaneous amendments

The principal Act is amended —

(a)

by deleting the sub-heading immediately below the Part heading of Part III and substituting the following Division heading:“Division 1 — General”;

(b)

by deleting the words “High Court” wherever they appear in the following provisions and substituting in each case the words “General Division”:Section 10(1), (2) and (5) and section headingSection 10A(1) and (2) and section headingSection 10B(1) and section headingSection 11(1) and section headingSection 15(1) and (2)Section 16(1) and (2)Section 17(1)Section 17A(1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (7) and (8)Section 18(1) and (2) and section headingSection 18ASection 18CSection 18D(1)(b) and (2)Section 18J(1) and (2)Section 19Section 20Section 22(1) and (2)Section 23Section 24 and section headingSection 25 and section headingSection 27(1), (2), (3) and (4) and section headingSection 28(1) and section headingSection 28A(1)Section 79(4);

(c)

by deleting the words “section 12” in section 10B(2) and substituting the words “section 7”;

(d)

by deleting the words “of the High Court” in section 13;

(e)

by deleting the sub‑heading immediately above section 15 and substituting the following Division heading:“Division 2 — Original jurisdiction”;

(f)

by deleting the sub‑heading immediately above section 18A and substituting the following Division heading:“Division 3 — Singapore International Commercial Court”;

(g)

by deleting the words “a Judge of Appeal, a Judge of the High Court, a Senior Judge of the Supreme Court or an International Judge of the Supreme Court” in section 18B(1) and substituting the words “a Supreme Court Judge, a Senior Judge or an International Judge”;

(h)

by deleting the words “the High Court may” in section 18I(1) and substituting the words “the General Division may”;

(i)

by deleting the words “that Court” in section 18J(2) and substituting the words “the General Division”;

(j)

by deleting subsection (4) of section 18J and substituting the following subsection:“(4) In this section, “General Division” does not include the Singapore International Commercial Court.”;

(k)

by deleting the sub‑heading immediately above section 19 and substituting the following Division heading:“Division 4 — Appellate jurisdiction”;

(l)

by deleting the words “Court of Appeal” in section 22(2) and substituting the words “Appellate Division”;

(m)

by deleting the sub‑heading immediately above section 23 and substituting the following Division heading:“Division 5 — Supervisory and revisionary jurisdiction”;

(n)

by deleting the sub‑heading immediately above section 28A and substituting the following Division heading:“Division 6 — Allocation of proceedings”;

(o)

by deleting the sub‑heading immediately above section 61 and substituting the following Division heading:“Division 1 — Registrar”;

(p)

by deleting the sub‑heading immediately above section 63 and substituting the following Division heading:“Division 2 — Sheriff”;

(q)

by deleting the sub‑heading immediately above section 66 and substituting the following Division heading:“Division 3 — Accountant”;

(r)

by deleting the sub‑heading immediately above section 67 and substituting the following Division heading:“Division 4 — Subordinate officers”;

(s)

by deleting the sub‑heading immediately above section 71 and substituting the following Division heading:“Division 5 — Offices”;

(t)

by deleting the sub‑heading immediately above section 73 and substituting the following Division heading:“Division 1 — List of touts”;

(u)

by deleting the words “Judge in chambers” in section 73(4) and (5) and substituting in each case the words “Judge sitting in chambers in the General Division”;

(v)

by deleting the sub‑heading immediately above section 73A and substituting the following Division heading:“Division 2 — Measures for dealing with unmeritorious or vexatious proceedings and vexatious litigants”;

(w)

by deleting the sub‑heading immediately above section 75 and substituting the following Division heading:“Division 3 — Disabilities of Registrar and other officers”;

(x)

by deleting the sub‑heading immediately above section 79 and substituting the following Division heading:“Division 4 — Protection of Registrar and other persons”;

(y)

by deleting the sub‑heading immediately above section 80 and substituting the following Division heading:“Division 5 — Rules of Court”;

(z)

by deleting the sub‑heading immediately above section 81 and substituting the following Division heading:“Division 6 — Council of Judges”;

(za)by deleting the words “Judges of the Supreme Court” in section 81 and substituting the words “Supreme Court Judges”;

(zb)by deleting the words “the High Court,” in section 81(c) and substituting the words “the General Division, the Appellate Division or”;

(zc)by deleting the sub‑heading immediately above section 82 and substituting the following Division heading:“Division 7 — Supplemental”; and

(zd)by deleting the words “THE HIGH COURT” in the Schedule heading of the First Schedule and substituting the words “GENERAL DIVISION”.