Reciprocal Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act 1959 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 1 · Registration of Foreign Judgments
7. Foreign judgments which can be registered not to be enforceable otherwise
Feedback & supportNo proceedings for the recovery of a sum payable under a foreign judgment, being a judgment to which this Part applies, other than proceedings by way of registration of the judgment, shall be entertained by any court in Singapore.
judgment
“judgment” means an interlocutory or final judgment or order given or made by a court in any civil proceedings, or a judgment or order given or made by a court in any criminal proceedings for the payment of a sum of money in respect of compensation or damages to an injured party, and includes a consent judgment, a consent order and a judicial settlement;
Where the date of coming into operation of the relevant order is before the date it is published in the Gazette, subsection (1) shall apply only to proceedings commenced in any court in Singapore on or after the date the relevant order is published in the Gazette.
In subsection (2), “relevant order” means the order made under section 3 by virtue of which the foreign judgment is a judgment to which this Part applies.