Supreme Court of Judicature (Singapore Convention on Mediation) Rules 2020

In these Rules, “Act” means the Singapore Convention on Mediation Act 2020 (Act 4 of 2020), and any reference to a section, unless otherwise expressly provided, is a reference to that section in the Act.

An expression used in these Rules that is used in the Act has the same meaning as in the Act.

An application to the General Division of the High Court —

Service out of the jurisdiction of an originating application under this rule is permissible with permission of court.

An application for the grant of permission under this rule must be supported by an affidavit stating the ground on which the application is made and showing in what place or country the person to be served is, or probably may be found; and no such permission may be granted unless it appears to the court that the case is a proper one for service out of the jurisdiction under this rule.

Order 8, Rules 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Rules of Court 2021 apply in relation to any originating application mentioned in paragraph (2).

An application to the General Division of the High Court for permission to record an international settlement agreement as an order of court may be made without notice and must be supported by an affidavit —

An order giving permission must be drawn up by or on behalf of the applicant and must be served on any person against whom the international settlement agreement is sought to be enforced or invoked by delivering a copy to that person personally or by sending a copy to that person at the person’s usual or last known place of abode or business or in such other manner as the court may direct.

Service of the order out of the jurisdiction is permissible without permission, and Order 8, Rules 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Rules of Court 2021 apply in relation to such an order.

Subject to paragraph (5), this rule has effect in relation to a body corporate as if, for any reference to the place of abode or business of the applicant or any person against whom the international settlement agreement is sought to be enforced or invoked, there were substituted a reference to the registered or principal address of the body corporate.

Nothing in this rule affects any written law which provides for the manner in which a document may be served on a body corporate.

An order giving permission may not be enforced until after the expiration of the period within which an application to set aside the order may be made under rule 7 or, if an application is made within that period to set aside the order of court, until after the application to set aside the order is finally disposed of.

The court may order that an order giving permission be served on other interested parties to the international settlement agreement.

An application to the General Division of the High Court to set aside an order giving permission to record an international settlement agreement as an order of court under section 8 must be made within a period of 6 weeks after the service of the order giving permission.

The affidavit in support must —

The court may order that an order to set aside an order giving permission to record an international settlement agreement as an order of court be served on other interested parties to the international settlement agreement.