Singapore legislation
Regulation 26
Regulation 26
Amendment of Notice of Appeal, Response or Reply
Subregulation 1
A party to an appeal may apply to the Appeal Committee to amend any Notice of Appeal, Response or Reply filed by that party.
Subregulation 2
The Appeal Committee may, if the Appeal Committee is satisfied that it is just to do so, permit the Notice of Appeal, Response or Reply (as the case may be) to be amended on any terms and in such manner as the Appeal Committee thinks fit.
Subregulation 3
Permission to amend a Notice of Appeal in order to add a new ground of appeal is not to be granted under paragraph (2) unless the Appeal Committee is satisfied that —
that ground is based on any matter of fact or law which came to light after the Notice of Appeal was lodged;
it was not practicable to include that ground in the Notice of Appeal at the time the Notice of Appeal was lodged; or
there are exceptional circumstances to do so.
Subregulation 4
Where an application to amend a Notice of Appeal, a Response or a Reply is filed under paragraph (1) —
the time delimited for the filing and service of a Response to that Notice of Appeal or a Reply to that Response under regulation 7, 8 or 9 (as the case may be) is to be extended until such time as the Appeal Committee may direct; and
the Appeal Committee may make such directions as the Appeal Committee thinks fit, including directions as to the service of any documents on any person specified by the Appeal Committee, costs or otherwise.