Singapore legislation
Regulation 6
of Supreme Court of Judicature (Singapore Convention on Mediation) Rules 2020
Regulation 6
Recording of international settlement agreement as order of court
Subregulation 1
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 —
stating for which of the purposes under section 4(1)(a) the application is being made;
stating the extent to which the requirements of the Act are complied with, so that the General Division of the High Court may grant permission to record the international settlement agreement as an order of the General Division of the High Court under section 5;
exhibiting the documents and providing the evidence set out in section 6; and
stating the name and the usual or last known place of abode or business of the applicant and any person against whom the international settlement agreement is sought to be enforced or invoked.
Subregulation 2
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.
Subregulation 3
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.
Subregulation 4
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.
Subregulation 5
Nothing in this rule affects any written law which provides for the manner in which a document may be served on a body corporate.
Subregulation 6
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.
Subregulation 7
The court may order that an order giving permission be served on other interested parties to the international settlement agreement.