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On 26/05/2013, you requested for the version in force on 26/05/2013 incorporating all amendments published on or before 26/05/2013. The closest version currently available is that of 17/04/2005.
Evidence of certain matters relating to international registration
17.
—(1)  In all legal proceedings relating to a protected international design (Singapore), the registration of a person as the holder of the international registration relating to a protected international design (Singapore) shall be prima facie evidence of the validity of that international registration and of any subsequent assignment or other transmission of it.
(2)  Judicial notice shall be taken of —
(a)
the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement and the Common Regulations;
(b)
a copy of an entry in the International Register issued by the International Bureau; and
(c)
a copy of the Bulletin published by the International Bureau.
(3)  Any document referred to in paragraph (2)(b) or (c) shall be admissible as evidence of any instrument or act of the International Bureau referred to in the document.
(4)  Evidence of any document issued by the International Bureau, or of any entry in or extract from such a document, may be given in any legal proceedings by the production of a copy thereof, and such a copy shall be received in evidence.
(5)  In this rule, “legal proceedings” include proceedings before the Registrar.