Singapore legislation
Clause 11
Clause 11
Amendment of section 45
In the Family Justice Act, in section 45, after subsection (6), insert —“(7) A person who provides advice to a Family Justice Court under section 11A of the Guardianship of Infants Act 1934, section 12 of the International Child Abduction Act 2010, section 130 of the Women’s Charter 1961 or any other written law as the Minister may by order in the Gazette prescribe, shall not be liable to be sued for any advice so provided on or after the appointed date (including in the form of a report) or any act done on or after that date by that person for the purposes or in the course of providing the advice (including in the form of a report), if —
the advice was provided, or the act was done, in good faith; and
the advice or act did not involve any fraud or wilful misconduct on his or her part.(8) A parenting coordinator appointed by a Family Justice Court to conduct a parenting coordination programme shall not be liable to be sued for any act done on or after the appointed date by the parenting coordinator for the purposes of the parenting coordination programme, if the act —
was done in good faith; and
did not involve any fraud or wilful misconduct on his or her part.(9) A person (called a referrer) who, at the request of a Family Justice Court, refers any party to the proceedings or any child involved in or whose custody or welfare is involved in the proceedings for any professional clinical or therapeutic intervention, shall not be liable to be sued for any act done on or after the appointed date by the referrer for the purposes of the referral, if the act —
was done in good faith; and
did not involve any fraud or wilful misconduct on the part of the referrer.(10) In this section —“appointed date” means —
in the case of a person who provides advice to a Family Justice Court under any written law prescribed by order in the Gazette for the purposes of subsection (7) — the date prescribed by that order, being a date not earlier than the date of that order; or
in any other case — the date of commencement of section 11 of the Family Justice Reform Act 2023;“parenting coordination programme” means a family support programme for the purpose of addressing or resolving any disagreement about any parenting matter between spouses or former spouses, arising from any relationship issue or relationship problem between spouses or former spouses, or between a parent and a child.”.