9Judicial notice to be taken of Ordinances etc

9 Judicial notice to be taken of Ordinances etc

(1) All courts and persons acting judicially must take judicial notice of: (a) a Commonwealth Ordinance; and (b) an applied law; and (c) a Singapore Ordinance; and (d) an Ordinance of the Colony of Singapore as defined in subsection (2); and (e) 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). (2) In paragraph 1(d), Ordinance of the Colony of Singapore means: (a) 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 (b) 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 (c) 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 (d) 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 (e) a law referred to in paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d) as amended or affected by a Commonwealth Ordinance.