Singapore legislation
Clause 5
Clause 5
Amendment of section 5
Section 5 of the principal Act is amended by deleting subsection (1) and substituting the following subsections:“(1) Subject to this Part, legal aid may be given to a citizen or permanent resident of Singapore in relation to any civil proceedings mentioned in Part I of the First Schedule (not being any proceedings mentioned in Part II of that Schedule).(1A) Despite subsection (1), the Director may authorise the giving of legal aid to a citizen or permanent resident of Singapore in relation to any proceedings mentioned in Part II of the First Schedule, if the Director is satisfied that those proceedings are, or are likely to be, related to any civil proceedings mentioned in that subsection.(1B) In deciding whether any proceedings mentioned in Part II of the First Schedule are, or are likely to be, related to any civil proceedings mentioned in subsection (1), the Director may consider —
whether a court has ordered, or may order, that the proceedings mentioned in Part II of the First Schedule, and the civil proceedings mentioned in subsection (1), be consolidated or tried at the same time, on the ground that some common question of fact arises in both proceedings; and
any other circumstances that may be specified in any regulations made under this Act.”.