On 20/06/2013,
you requested for the version in force on 20/06/2013
incorporating all amendments published on or before 20/06/2013.
The closest version currently available is that of 01/04/2006.
1. Provided that the originating process does not contain any claim mentioned in Order 70, Rule 3(1), service of an originating process out of Singapore is permissible with the leave of the Court if in the action —
(a)
relief is sought against a person who is domiciled, ordinarily resident, carrying on business or who has property in Singapore;
(b)
an injunction is sought ordering the defendant to do or refrain from doing anything in Singapore (whether or not damages are also claimed in respect of a failure to do or the doing of that thing);
(c)
the claim is brought against a person duly served in or out of Singapore and a person out of Singapore is a necessary or proper party thereto;
(d)
the claim is brought to enforce, rescind, dissolve, annul or otherwise affect a contract, or to recover damages or obtain other relief in respect of the breach of a contract, being (in either case) a contract which —
(i)
was made in Singapore, or was made as a result of an essential step being taken in Singapore;
(ii)
was made by or through an agent trading or residing in Singapore on behalf of a principal trading or residing out of Singapore;
(iii)
is by its terms, or by implication, governed by the law of Singapore; or
(iv)
contains a term to the effect that that Court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine any action in respect of the contract;
(e)
the claim is brought in respect of a breach committed in Singapore of a contract made in or out of Singapore and irrespective of the fact, if such be the case, that the breach was preceded or accompanied by a breach committed out of Singapore that rendered impossible the performance of so much of the contract as ought to have been performed in Singapore;
(f)
(i)
the claim is founded on a tort, wherever committed, which is constituted, at least in part, by an act or omission occurring in Singapore; or
(ii)
the claim is wholly or partly founded on, or is for the recovery of damages in respect of, damage suffered in Singapore caused by a tortious act or omission wherever occurring;
(g)
the whole subject-matter is immovable property situate in Singapore (with or without rents or profits) or the perpetuation of testimony relating to immovable property so situate;
(h)
the claim is brought to construe, rectify, set aside or enforce an act, deed, will, contract, obligation or liability affecting immovable property situate in Singapore;
(i)
the claim is made for a debt secured on immovable property or is made to assert, declare or determine proprietary or possessory rights, or rights of security, in or over movable property, or to obtain authority to dispose of movable property, situate in Singapore;
(j)
the claim is brought to execute the trusts of a written instrument, being trusts that ought to be executed according to the law of Singapore and of which the person to be served with the originating process is a trustee, or for any relief or remedy which might be obtained in any such action;
(k)
the claim is made for the administration of the estate of a person who died domiciled in Singapore or for any relief or remedy which might be obtained in any such action;
(l)
the claim is brought in a probate action within the meaning of Order 72;
(m)
the claim is brought to enforce any judgment or arbitral award, or any adjudication determination within the meaning of the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act (Chapter 30B);
(n)
the claim is made under the Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Serious Crimes (Confiscation of Benefits) Act (Chapter 65A), the Terrorism (Suppression of Financing) Act (Chapter 325) or any other written law;
(o)
the claim is a restitutionary one (including a claim for quantum meruit or quantum valebat) or for an account or other relief against the defendant as trustee or fiduciary, and the defendant’s alleged liability arises out of any act done, whether by him or otherwise, in Singapore;
(p)
the claim is founded on a cause of action arising in Singapore;
(q)
the claim is for a contribution or an indemnity in respect of a liability enforceable by proceedings in Singapore;
(r)
the claim is in respect of matters in which the defendant has submitted or agreed to submit to the jurisdiction of the Court; or
(s)
the claim concerns the construction, effect or enforcement of any written law.