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4 PART 1 PRELIMINARY Short title and commencement

1. This Act is the Choice of Court Agreements Act 2016 and comes into operation on a date that the Minister appoints by notification in the Gazette.

General interpretation

2.—(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—

“chosen court” means a court, of a Contracting State, designated in an exclusive choice of court agreement;

“Contracting State”—
 * (a) means a State which is a party to the Convention; and
 * (b) includes, in an appropriate case—
 * (i) a Regional Economic Integration Organisation which is a party to the Convention; and
 * (ii) a member State, of a Regional Economic Integration Organisation which is a party to, and has made a declaration under Article 30(1) of, the Convention;

“Convention” means the Convention on Choice of Court Agreements done at The Hague on 30 June 2005;

“court of origin”, in relation to a foreign judgment for which recognition or enforcement is sought under this Act, means the court which gives the foreign judgment;

“foreign judgment” means a judgment given by a court of a Contracting State (other than Singapore), being—
 * (a) a chosen court; or
 * (b) a court to which a chosen court has transferred, in accordance with the law or practice relating to the allocation of jurisdiction or transfer of cases among