s 11 Jurisdiction over certain publications, acts and omissions outside Singapore
11.—(1) Without affecting the jurisdiction and power conferred under this Act or any other written law, a court has jurisdiction to try any contempt of court and to impose the full punishment under this Act in the circumstances specified in subsections (2) to (5). (2) Where the publication in relation to contempt of court was published through the Internet or other electronic media (regardless of whether it was first published in Singapore or elsewhere), the publication is taken to be published in Singapore if it was accessed by members of the public in Singapore. (3) Where the publication in relation to contempt of court was published otherwise than in subsection (2) (regardless of whether it was first published in Singapore or elsewhere), if the publication was published in Singapore. (4) Where the person who commits contempt of court under section 4 is legally bound to obey or comply with the judgment, decree, direction, order, writ or other process of a court or an undertaking given to a court, regardless of whether the disobedience or failure to comply occurred in Singapore or elsewhere. (5) Where the act in relation to contempt of court under section 3(1)(c), (d) and (e) (regardless of whether it occurred wholly or partly outside Singapore) directly interferes with, obstructs or poses a real risk of interference with or obstruction of the administration of justice in Singapore.Illustration 1 A resides in a foreign country and has agreed to testify as a witness in a criminal trial in Singapore. B stops A from travelling to Singapore to testify in the trial by making in the foreign country a death threat against A. The Singapore court has jurisdiction under subsection (5) to try and punish B for contempt of court. Illustration 2 A accepts a bribe from B in a foreign country as gratification for giving false evidence in A’s testimony as a witness in a civil trial in Singapore. A gives false evidence in the trial in Singapore. The Singapore court has jurisdiction under subsection (5) to try and punish B for contempt of court.