Singapore legislation
Regulation 9
of Coroners (Electronic Filing for Coroners’ Courts) Regulations 2015
Regulation 9
Date of filing
Subregulation 1
Where any application or document is filed, delivered or conveyed using the electronic filing service by an authorised user or an authorised agent, it is deemed to be filed, delivered or conveyed on the date and at the time that the first part of the electronic transmission of the application or the document from the authorised user or the authorised agent is received in the computer system of the Coroners’ Courts.
Subregulation 2
The authorised user or authorised agent may produce a confirmation receipt issued by the electronic filing service provider as evidence of —
the filing, delivery or conveyance of any application or document filed, delivered or conveyed by the authorised user or authorised agent; or
the date and time of filing, delivery or conveyance of the application or document.
Subregulation 3
If the Registrar or a Coroner is satisfied for any reason that any application or document should be treated as having been filed, delivered or conveyed through the electronic filing service, or issued by a Coroner’s Court, at some earlier date and time than the date and time mentioned in paragraph (1) —
the Registrar or Coroner may cause the electronic filing service to reflect that earlier date and time; and
that earlier date and time is deemed for the purposes of any proceedings in any Coroner’s Court to be the date and time on and at which the application or document was filed, delivered or conveyed, as the case may be.