Singapore legislation

Clause 13

Amendment of section 5A

In the Guardianship of Infants Act 1934, in section 5A (as inserted by section 43(3) of the Women’s Charter (Amendment) Act 2022), after subsection (6), insert —“(7) Unless the Family Justice Rules provide otherwise, an application to a Family Court under this section (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.(8) Despite section 47(1) of the Family Justice Act 2014, an access order made by the General Division of the High Court (whether before, on or after 1 October 2014) may be enforced by a Family Court in accordance with this section as if the access order had been made by the Family Court, except that a Family Court has no power to vary an order of the General Division of the High Court.”.

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