CIVIL LAW (AMENDMENT) BILL

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CIVIL LAW (AMENDMENT) BILL: "to amend the Civil Law Act (Chapter 43 of the 1999 Revised Edition) to reform the law relating to damages for causing a wrongful death, to provide for contracts entered into by minors who have attained the age of 18 years to have effect as if they were contracts made by persons of full age, to allow such minors to bring certain legal proceedings and actions in their own name as if they were of full age, and to make consequential and related amendments to certain other written laws so as to allow such minors to engage in certain commercial activities",

presented by the Senior Minister of State for Law (Assoc. Prof. Ho Peng Kee); read the First time; to be read a Second time on the next available sitting of Parliament, and to be printed.