Singapore legislation
Regulation 7
Regulation 7
Electronic filing
Subregulation 1
Subject to paragraphs (4A), (4B) and (4C), every application or document referred to in regulation 4(1) must be filed, served, delivered or conveyed by an authorised user or an authorised agent using the electronic filing service in accordance with these Regulations and such other requirements as may be imposed by the Registrar.
Subregulation 2
The requirement in paragraph (1) for the filing, service, delivery or conveyance of any such application or document is satisfied by the filing, service, delivery or conveyance of a single copy of the application or document using the electronic filing service in accordance with these Regulations.
Subregulation 3
Notwithstanding paragraph (1), the Registrar may allow to be filed, served, delivered or conveyed any application or document referred to in regulation 4(1) by any means other than the electronic filing service.
Subregulation 4
The form of any application or document referred to in regulation 4(1) shall be —
as set out in such form as the Registrar may require; or
in the absence of such requirement, in the form prescribed by the Criminal Procedure Code (Prescribed Forms) Regulations 2010 (G.N. No. S 811/2010).
Subregulation 4A
Where a party —
is an authorised user or is represented by an advocate and solicitor who is an authorised user or an authorised agent; and
intends to tender a document as evidence to the court during a trial,the party must file, before the commencement of the trial, an electronic reproduction of the document using the electronic filing service in accordance with these Regulations and such other requirements as may be imposed by the Registrar.
Subregulation 4B
A party shall not file an electronic reproduction of a document under paragraph (4A) if —
the party knows that another party objects to the admissibility of the document; or
the party intends to tender the document as evidence during any proceedings heard in camera.
Subregulation 4C
The court may, in its discretion, allow a party to tender a document as evidence during a trial, notwithstanding that the party has not complied with paragraph (4A).
Subregulation 4D
Paragraph (4) shall not apply to any document that is to be tendered to the court as evidence.
Subregulation 5
Any application or document which is filed, served, delivered or conveyed through the electronic filing service by an authorised user using an identification code shall be deemed to have been so filed, served, delivered or conveyed by the authorised user and with his intention to do so.
Subregulation 6
Any application or document which is filed, served, delivered or conveyed through the electronic filing service by an authorised agent of an authorised user using an identification code shall be deemed to have been so filed, served, delivered or conveyed —
on behalf and with the authority of the authorised user; and
with the intention of that authorised user to do so.
Subregulation 7
For the avoidance of doubt, every application or document which is filed with, served on, or delivered or conveyed to a court or the Registrar using an identification code in compliance with the security procedures of the electronic filing service shall be treated as a secure electronic record within the meaning of the Electronic Transactions Act (Cap. 88).