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- Ordering mediation, counselling or participation in family support programme or activity
- 21. Power to order any party to any proceedings, or any child who is a subject of those proceedings, to undergo such mediation or counselling, or to participate in such family support programme or activity (that is to say, any programme or activity carried out for the purpose of addressing or resolving any relationship issue or relationship problem between spouses or former spouses, between siblings or between parent and child), as the court may direct.”.
Related amendments to Voluntary Sterilization Act
75. The Voluntary Sterilization Act (Cap. 347, 2013 Ed.) is amended—
- (a) by inserting, immediately before the definition of “health institution” in section 2, the following definition:
- “ “court” means the High Court or a Family Court;”; and
- (b) by deleting the words “High Court” in section 3(2)(d) and (e) and substituting in each case the word “court”.
Consequential and related amendments to Women’s Charter
76. The Women’s Charter (Cap. 353, 2009 Ed.) is amended—
- (a) by inserting, immediately after the definition of “Conciliation Officer” in section 2, the following definition:
- “ “court”—
- (a) for the purposes of sections 13, 17, 20 and 59 and Parts VIII and X, means the High Court or a Family Court;
- (b) for the purposes of Part VII, means a Family Court; and
- (c) for the purposes of Part IX, means the High Court or a Family Court, and includes the Syariah Court constituted under the Administration of Muslim Law Act (Cap. 3);”;
- “ “court”—
