Women’s Charter 1961 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 7 · Protection Against Family Violence
62A. Emergency orders may include domestic exclusion, stay away and no contact orders
Last amended by an amending law of 2023.
Official textFrom Singapore Statutes Online, unchanged
An emergency order that restrains X from committing family violence against Y may also include one or more of the following orders if the protector considers it necessary for the protection or personal safety of Y:
emergency order
“emergency order” means an emergency order under section 62(1);
a domestic exclusion order excluding X from Y’s home;
a stay away order prohibiting X from entering and remaining in an area outside Y’s home or any other place frequented by Y;
a no contact order prohibiting X from visiting or communicating with Y.
The following supplementary provisions apply in relation to a domestic exclusion order:
the order may be made in respect of the whole or any part of Y’s home;
the order may be made regardless of who has a title or interest in Y’s home;
except to the extent provided for in the order, the order does not affect any title or interest that the excluded person or any other person might have in Y’s home.
To avoid doubt —
the orders in subsection (1) have effect as part of the emergency order against X; and
a contravention of any of those orders is a contravention of the emergency order against X.
Terms defined in this Act
emergency order
Defined · s 58“emergency order” means an emergency order under section 62(1);
home
Defined · s 58“home”, in relation to a person, means the place or premises at which the person ordinarily resides;
place
Defined · s 2“place” means any building, house, office, flat, room or cubicle or any part thereof, and any open or enclosed space and includes a ship, boat or any vessel, whether afloat or not, and any vehicle;
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