Singapore legislation
Clause 28
Clause 28
Amendment of section 139
In the Women’s Charter, in section 139, after subsection (3), insert —“(3A) Unless the Family Justice Rules provide otherwise, an application to a Family Court under section 126B (called in this subsection the relevant application) —
(a)
must be made in the same manner as an application for a summons is made to a District Court or Magistrate’s Court under the Criminal Procedure Code 2010; and
(b)
is to be dealt with —
(i)
as if the relevant application were a complaint for the purposes of that Code; but(ii)in accordance with only such provisions of that Code, and with such provisions of any other written law, as may be prescribed by the Family Justice Rules.”.