CIVIL LAW ORDINANCE (Amending Legislation)

Legislative Assembly of Singapore · 9 January 1957 · 1st Legislative Assembly

Official Report, 9 January 1957, Vol 3, Issue 1 · Open in the reader (summaries, search, filters)

David Marshall

11.52 a.m.

The following motion stood in the name of Mr D. S. Marshall-

That leave be granted to introduce a Bill to amend section 12 of the Civil Law Ordinance (Chapter 24 of the Revised Edition).

Mr Marshall: If it please you, Mr Speaker, Sir, I am happy to inform the House that the Bill which I have in mind has now been adopted by the Government and presented this morning under item 6 in the Order Paper by the Hon. the Attorney-General, and, in the circumstances, my motion is redundant and I withdraw it.

Mr Speaker: The hon. Member is not moving it?

Mr Marshall: No, Sir.

Source: Singapore Parliament Official Report (Hansard) for 9 January 1957. Republished on SGParliament.