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Community Disputes Resolution Act 2015

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This Act aims to make community disputes easier to resolve. It creates a legal wrong for community disputes, a framework to manage them, and tribunals to deal with them. If a party breaks a special direction, the party it favours may ask a court to keep the party at fault out of their home. A court may order this if the party at fault had no reasonable excuse and the order is just and fair. The minister may, by order, exempt people from a provision of the Act.

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Part 1

Preliminary

Official textFrom Singapore Statutes Online, unchanged

s 1Short title

This Act is the Community Disputes Resolution Act 2015.

(1)

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —

“auxiliary community relations officer” means an auxiliary community relations officer appointed under section 13D;

“claim” includes a counterclaim;

“Community Disputes Resolution Tribunal” or “tribunal” means a District Court designated under section 14 as a Community Disputes Resolution Tribunal;

“Community Mediation Centre” means a Community Mediation Centre established under section 3 of the Community Mediation Centres Act 1997;

“community relations officer” means a community relations officer appointed under section 13C;

“Deputy Director” means a Deputy Director of Community Relations appointed under section 13B;

“Director” means a Director of Community Relations appointed under section 13B;

“Director-General” means the Director-General of Community Relations appointed under section 13B;

“Registrar” means the registrar of the State Courts appointed under section 12 of the State Courts Act 1970 and includes a deputy registrar appointed under that section;

“Registry” means the Registry of the State Courts;

“Senior Assistant Director” means a Senior Assistant Director of Community Relations appointed under section 13B;

“statutory body” means a body corporate established by or under a public Act for the purposes of a public function;

“unreasonable interference”, in relation to a neighbour of an individual, means unreasonable interference with the enjoyment or use of the place of residence that the neighbour resides in.

(2)

For the purposes of the definition of “unreasonable interference” in subsection (1) —

(a)

whether an act or omission causes interference with a neighbour’s enjoyment or use of his or her place of residence is to be construed in accordance with section 4(2); and

(b)

whether a person is a neighbour of an individual is to be construed in accordance with section 4(4) and (5).

Part 2

Tort of Interference with Enjoyment or Use of Place of Residence

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Part 2A

Community Relations Officers

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Part 3

Community Disputes Resolution Tribunals

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Part 4

General

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