Singapore legislation

Regulation 31

of Family Justice (General) Rules 2024

Regulation 31

Application for stay of enforcement (P. 3, r. 31)

Subregulation 1

The party who is liable under any maintenance order may apply for stay of enforcement or stay of any enforcement order or any part of the order if there is a special case making it inappropriate to enforce the maintenance order or enforcement order (as the case may be) immediately.

Subregulation 2

The Court may order a stay of enforcement or stay of an enforcement order, for a specified period or until the occurrence of a specified event.

Subregulation 3

Where the enforcement applicant has attached a debt under an enforcement order before the Court orders a stay, the Court may, in the order mentioned in paragraph (2), order that the enforcement applicant withdraw the attachment or maintain the attachment without taking further action on the enforcement order.