Judicial notice to be taken of Ordinances etc
9 Judicial notice to be taken of Ordinances etc
All courts and persons acting judicially must take judicial notice of:
a Commonwealth Ordinance; and
an applied law; and
a Singapore Ordinance; and
an Ordinance of the Colony of Singapore as defined in subsection (2); and
regulations, rules, rules of court, by‑laws, proclamations or orders or any other instruments made under a law referred to in paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d).
In paragraph 1(d), Ordinance of the Colony of Singapore means:
an Ordinance of the Colony of Singapore in its application to the Territory under section 7 of the Act as in force before 1 July 1992; or
the provisions of an Ordinance of the Colony of Singapore applying by virtue of an Ordinance made under section 9 of the Act as a law of the Territory before 1 July 1992; or
an Imperial Act or Order in Council in its application to the Territory under section 7 of the Act as in force before 1 July 1992; or
an Ordinance of the Colony of the Straits Settlements in force in the Colony of Singapore immediately before the commencement of the Act or the date of its application as a law of the Territory; or
a law referred to in paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d) as amended or affected by a Commonwealth Ordinance.
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