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 * (8) In relation to Singapore Clauses (4) to (6) shall not apply, but no enactment of the Legislature of Singapore making in the Constitution of the State amendments relating to any matter dealt with by the provisions set out in Part I of the Eighth Schedule (as it applies to Singapore) shall have effect unless—


 * (a) the amendments do not materially affect the operation of the Constitution in relation to those matters; or


 * (b) the effect of the amendments is confined to inserting provisions so set out or provisions substantially to the same effect (whether or not in substitution for other provisions) or to removing provisions inconsistent with the provisions so set out; or


 * (c) the enactment is approved by Act of Parliament".


 * (2) In Clause (4) of Article 71 of the Constitution the words "it appears to Parliament that" shall be omitted.


 * (3) At the end of the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution there shall be added as section 23 the section set out in the Second Schedule to this Act.

Chapter 4—The Judiciary


 * 13. (1) Subject to Clause (2) the judicial power of the Federation shall be vested in three High Courts of co-ordinate jurisdiction and status, namely—


 * (a) one in the States of Malaya, which shall be known as the High Court in Malaya and shall have its principal registry in Kuala Lumpur; and


 * (b) one in the Borneo States, which shall be known as the High Court in Borneo and shall have its principal registry at such place in the Borneo States as the Yang di-Pertuan Agong may determine; and


 * (c) one in the State of Singapore, which shall be known as the High Court in Singapore; and in such inferior courts as may be provided by federal law.


 * (2) The following jurisdiction shall be vested in a court which shall be known as the Federal Court and shall have its principal registry in Kuala Lumpur, that is to say,—


 * (a) exclusive jurisdiction to determine appeals from decisions of a High Court or a judge thereof (except decisions of a High Court given by a registrar or other officer of the court and appealable under federal law to a judge of the Court); and