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63. Application for service out of Singapore of originating process or other court document and for extension of validity of originating process

Part 8: Originating Processes, Documents, and Service In or Out of Singapore

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(a) relief is sought against a person who is domiciled, ordinarily resident or carrying on business in Singapore, or who has property in Singapore; (b) an injunction is sought ordering the defendant to do or refrain from doing anything in Singapore (whether or not damages are also claimed in respect of a failure to do or the doing of that thing); (c) the claim is brought against a person duly served in or outside Singapore, and a person outside Singapore is a necessary or proper party to the claim; (d) the claim is brought to enforce, rescind, dissolve, annul or otherwise affect a contract, or to recover damages or obtain other relief in respect of the breach of a contract, being (in either case) a contract which — (i) was made in Singapore, or was made as a result of an essential step being taken in Singapore; (ii) was made by or through an agent trading or residing in Singapore on behalf of a principal trading or residing out of Singapore; (iii) is by its terms, or by implication, governed by the law of Singapore; or (iv) contains a term to the effect that that Court will have jurisdiction to hear and determine any action in respect of the contract; (e) the claim is brought in respect of a breach committed in Singapore of a contract made in or outside Singapore and irrespective of the fact, if such be the case, that the breach was preceded or accompanied by a breach committed outside Singapore that rendered impossible the performance of so much of the contract as ought to have been performed in Singapore; (f) the claim: (i) is founded on a tort, wherever committed, which is constituted, at least in part, by an act or omission occurring in Singapore; or (ii) is wholly or partly founded on, or is for the recovery of damages in respect of, damage suffered in Singapore caused by a tortious act or omission wherever occurring (g) the whole subject matter is immovable property situated in Singapore (with or without rents or profits) or the perpetuation of testimony relating to immovable property so situated; (h) the claim is brought to construe, rectify, set aside or enforce an act, deed, will, contract, obligation or liability affecting immovable property situated in Singapore; (i) the claim is made for a debt secured on immovable property situated in Singapore, or is made to assert, declare or determine proprietary or possessory rights, or rights of security, in or over movable property, or to obtain authority to dispose of movable property, situated in Singapore; (j) the claim is brought to execute the trusts of a written instrument, being trusts that ought to be executed according to the law of Singapore and of which the person to be served with the originating process is a trustee, or for any relief or remedy which might be obtained in any such action; (k) the claim is made for the administration of the estate of a person who died domiciled in Singapore or for any relief or remedy which might be obtained in any such action; (l) the claim is brought in an administration action within the meaning of Order 32 of the Rules of Court 2021; (m) the claim is brought to enforce any judgment or arbitral award, or any adjudication determination within the meaning of the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 2004; (n) the claim is made under the Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Serious Crimes (Confiscation of Benefits) Act 1992, the Terrorism (Suppression of Financing) Act 2002 or any other written law; (o) the claim is a restitutionary one (including a claim for quantum meruit or quantum valebat) or for an account or other relief against the defendant as trustee or fiduciary, and the defendant’s alleged liability arises out of any act done, whether by the defendant or otherwise, in Singapore; (p) the claim is founded on a cause of action arising in Singapore; (q) the claim is for a contribution or an indemnity in respect of a liability enforceable by proceedings in Singapore; (r) the claim is in respect of matters in which the defendant has submitted or agreed to submit to the jurisdiction of the Court; (s) the claim concerns the construction, effect or enforcement of any written law;&x20; (t) the claim is for a committal order under Order 23 of the Rules of Court 2021; or (u) the application is for the production of documents or information: (i) to identify possible parties to proceedings before the commencement of those proceedings in Singapore; (ii) to enable tracing of property before the commencement of proceedings in Singapore relating to the property; or (iii) where the production of the documents or information is in the interests of justice.

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