Singapore legislation
Regulation 10
of Women’s Charter (Enforcement of Maintenance Orders under Division 3 of Part 9) Regulations 2024
Regulation 10
Prescribed proceedings for purposes of section 91(1)(b) of Act
Subregulation 1
Subject to paragraph (2), for the purposes of section 91(1)(b) of the Act, the prescribed proceedings are the following:
any proceedings arising from an application for any of the following orders, including any appeal against any decision of the court on the application:
an order for the payment of monthly sums or a lump sum for the maintenance of a wife, an incapacitated husband or a child, made or deemed to be made by a court under Part 8 of the Act;
an order for the payment of monthly or periodical sums or a lump sum by way of maintenance or alimony to a wife or former wife or an incapacitated husband or incapacitated former husband, or by way of maintenance for the benefit of any child, under Part 10 of the Act;
an order for the payment of money in respect of the maintenance of an infant made under the Guardianship of Infants Act 1934;
any proceedings arising from an application to vary, suspend, discharge, rescind, set aside or revoke any order mentioned in sub‑paragraph (a), including any appeal against any decision of the court on the application;
any proceedings relating to a division of matrimonial assets when granting or subsequent to the grant of a judgment of divorce, judicial separation or nullity of marriage under Part 10 of the Act, including any appeal against any decision of the court in the proceedings.
Subregulation 2
Where any of the proceedings mentioned in paragraph (1) is an appeal against a decision of a lower court in proceedings in which the MEO’s report was not admitted, nothing in that paragraph derogates from any rule of law on the admissibility of fresh evidence in an appeal.