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Reciprocal Enforcement of Commonwealth Judgments (Repeal) Bill

Bill Summary

  • Purpose: To repeal the Reciprocal Enforcement of Commonwealth Judgments Act (RECJA) and make consequential amendments to other Acts, streamlining the statutory framework for the reciprocal enforcement of foreign judgments in Singapore.

  • Responses: Senior Minister of State Edwin Tong Chun Fai noted that the Bill is interconnected with the Reciprocal Enforcement of Foreign Judgments (Amendment) Bill and stated that the justifications for the proposed changes were already addressed during the preceding debate on that Bill.

Reading Status 2nd Reading
1st Reading Mon, 5 August 2019
Introduction — no debate
2nd Reading Mon, 2 September 2019

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Members Involved

Edwin Tong Chun Fai (Senior Minister of State for Health and Law)

Transcripts

First Reading (5 August 2019)

"to repeal the Reciprocal Enforcement of Commonwealth Judgments Act (Chapter 264 of the 1985 Revised Edition) and to make consequential amendments to certain other Acts",

presented by the Senior Minister of State for Law (Mr Edwin Tong Chun Fai) on behalf of the Minister for Law; read the First time; to be read a Second time on the next available Sitting of Parliament, and to be printed.

Second Reading (2 September 2019)

Order for Second Reading read.

7.11 pm

The Senior Minister of State for Law (Mr Edwin Tong Chun Fai) (for the Minister for Law): Mr Deputy Speaker, Sir, on behalf of the Minister for Law, I beg to move, "That the Bill be now read a Second time."

This Bill is linked to the previous Bill on our Order Paper, the Reciprocal Enforcement of Foreign Judgments (Amendment) Bill. In the debate that we have just had on the REFJA Amendment Bill, I have already explained the amendments proposed in both Bills. Members have already raised their questions and expressed their views on both Bills during the earlier debate, although they are still welcome to do so now if there are any. Sir, on this basis, I beg to move.

Question proposed.

Mr Deputy Speaker: No speakers?

Question put, and agreed to.

Bill accordingly read a Second time and committed to a Committee of the whole House.

The House immediately resolved itself into a Committee on the Bill. – [Mr Edwin Tong Chun Fai].

Bill considered in Committee; reported without amendment; read a Third time and passed.