Singapore legislation

Clause 50

of Courts (Civil and Criminal Justice) Reform Bill

Clause 50

Miscellaneous amendments

The State Courts Act is amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “any writ of seizure and sale or any other writ of execution or of distress” in the following provision and substituting the words “any enforcement order for seizure and sale of property, any other enforcement order or any writ of distress”:Section 16;

(b)

by deleting the words “a writ of summons” in the following provisions and substituting in each case the words “an originating claim”:Section 19(2)(a)Section 52(1)(a);

(c)

by deleting the word “plaintiff” wherever it appears in the following provisions and substituting in each case the word “claimant”:Section 22(1)Section 39(1), (2) and (3)Section 54E(3)Section 54F(3);

(d)

by deleting the word “plaintiff’s” in the following provisions and substituting in each case the word “claimant’s”:Section 39(6)Section 54E(2)(c)Section 54F(2)(c);

(e)

by deleting the word “execution” in the following provisions and substituting in each case the word “enforcement”:Section 43(3)Section 54E(3)Section 54F(3);

(f)

by deleting the word “leave” in the following provision and substituting the word “permission”:Section 43(3);

(g)

by inserting, immediately after the words “stay of execution” in the following provision, the words “or enforcement”:Section 49(1) and section heading;

(h)

by deleting the words “writ or order of execution” in the following provision and substituting the words “enforcement order or writ of distress”:Section 68(3);

(i)

by deleting the words “writ of execution” in the following provision and substituting the words “enforcement order”:Section 69(3)(f)(i); and

(j)

by deleting the words “writ or” in the following provision:Section 69(3)(f).

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