Singapore legislation
Regulation 12
Regulation 12
Use of foreign documents under Apostille Convention or Civil Procedure Convention (P. 1, r. 12)
Subregulation 1
Despite anything in these Rules, the following documents may be received, filed or used in Court:
a foreign public document with an apostille placed on or attached to it;
a document or a translation of the document that has been drawn up or certified, and duly sealed, by a court or other competent authority of a foreign country, being a country with which there subsists a Civil Procedure Convention providing for the dispensation of the authentication of such documents.
Subregulation 2
In this Rule —
Definition
“apostille” means a Convention certificate as defined by section 10 of the Apostille Act 2020;
Definition
“foreign public document” has the meaning given by section 6 of the Apostille Act 2020.