Singapore legislation
Regulation 11
Regulation 11
Restrictions relating to accelerated courses and dual degree courses for purposes of rules 8, 9 and 9A
Subregulation 1
Except as provided in paragraph (2) or as otherwise approved by the Board before 31st July 2009 or by the Minister on or after that date, no person who has been conferred the degree of Bachelor of Laws by any institution of higher learning in the United Kingdom, Australia or New Zealand shall be a qualified person under rule 8 or 9, as the case may be, if —
the course of study that led to that degree was an accelerated course; or
the course of study that led to that degree was a dual degree course and the degree of Bachelor of Laws is a component of the dual degrees conferred on that person.
Subregulation 2
Paragraph (1) shall not apply if —
the person is admitted by any of the institutions of higher learning specified in the First or Second Schedule for an accelerated course or dual degree course that leads to the corresponding degree of Bachelor of Laws as specified in that Schedule before 1st August 2001; or
he commences reading such a course before 1st May 2002.
Subregulation 2A
Except as otherwise approved by the Minister, no person who is conferred the degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence by an institution of higher learning in Australia is to become a qualified person under rule 9 if —
the course of study that led to that degree was an accelerated course; or
the course of study that led to that degree was a dual degree course and the degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence is a component of the dual degrees conferred on that person.
Subregulation 3
Except as otherwise approved by the Board before 31st July 2009 or by the Minister on or after that date, no person who has been conferred the degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence by any institution of higher learning in the United States of America shall become a qualified person under rule 9A if —
the course of study that led to that degree was an accelerated course; or
the course of study that led to that degree was a dual degree course and the degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence is a component of dual degrees conferred on that person.
Subregulation 4
Paragraphs (1), (2A) and (3) do not apply to a person if —
the person —
is conferred, by any institution of higher learning specified in the First, Third, Fourth or Fifth Schedule, any degree of Bachelor of Laws or degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence specified for that institution of higher learning in the applicable Schedule; or
is admitted before 1 October 2015, by any institution of higher learning specified in the Second Schedule, as a candidate for any degree of Bachelor of Laws specified for that institution of higher learning in that Schedule, and is conferred that degree on or after 1 January 1997 but before 1 January 2025;
before the person commenced reading the course of study leading to the degree mentioned in sub‑paragraph (a)(i) or (ii) (called in this paragraph the second course), the person had commenced reading a course of study leading to any of the following degrees (called in this paragraph the first course):
any degree of Bachelor of Laws or degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence that is conferred by an institution of higher learning specified in the First, Second, Third, Fourth or Fifth Schedule, and that is specified for that institution of higher learning in the applicable Schedule, other than the degree mentioned in sub‑paragraph (a)(i) or (ii);
a degree of Bachelor of Laws or degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence conferred by the National University of Singapore;
a degree of Bachelor of Laws or degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence conferred by the Singapore Management University;
a degree of Bachelor of Laws or degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence conferred by the Singapore University of Social Sciences;
the person is given credit for the second course on account of the person’s participation in the first course; and
the total period of the person’s participation in both the first course and the second course is not less than 3 academic years.