PART 1
PRELIMINARY
Short title and commencement
1. This Act is the Choice of Court Agreements Act 2016 and comes into operation on a date that the Minister appoints by notification in the Gazette.
General interpretation
2.—(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—
“chosen court” means a court, of a Contracting State, designated in an exclusive choice of court agreement;
“Contracting State”—
- (a) means a State which is a party to the Convention; and
- (b) includes, in an appropriate case—
- (i) a Regional Economic Integration Organisation which is a party to the Convention; and
- (ii) a member State, of a Regional Economic Integration Organisation which is a party to, and has made a declaration under Article 30(1) of, the Convention;
“Convention” means the Convention on Choice of Court Agreements done at The Hague on 30 June 2005;
“court of origin”, in relation to a foreign judgment for which recognition or enforcement is sought under this Act, means the court which gives the foreign judgment;
“foreign judgment” means a judgment given by a court of a Contracting State (other than Singapore), being—
- (a) a chosen court; or
- (b) a court to which a chosen court has transferred, in accordance with the law or practice relating to the allocation of jurisdiction or transfer of cases among
