s 5A Enforcement of child access order
5A.—(1) This section applies where —(a) the court makes an order under section 5 (called in this section the access order) giving a person (X) access to a child; and (b) the order is breached by the person (Y) who is required by the order to give X access to the child. (2) X may apply to the court to enforce the access order against Y. (3) Without limiting any other power of the court, the court may do all or any of the following in an application under subsection (2):(a) order Y to give X additional access to the child to make up for the access denied to X as a result of the breach; (b) order Y to compensate X for any reasonable expenses incurred by X as a result of the breach; (c) order X, Y and the child (or any of them) to attend all or any of the following:(i) counselling; (ii) mediation; (iii) a therapeutic or an educational programme specified by the court; (iv) a family support programme as defined in section 139A of the Women’s Charter 1961; (d) order Y to execute a bond, with or without sureties or security, as the court may determine, to secure Y’s future compliance with the access order; (e) for every breach of the access order by Y, sentence Y to a fine not exceeding $20,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both. (4) To avoid doubt, an order under subsection (3)(a) must not give X more access than what X is entitled to under the access order. (5) The court may, in making any order under subsection (3)(a), (b), (c) or (d) in respect of a breach of the access order —(a) reserve the question whether Y should also be sentenced under subsection (3)(e) for that breach; and (b) return to the question subsequently (without X having to make a fresh application). (6) In respect of a breach of an access order, X may do either, but not both, of the following:(a) make an application under subsection (2); (b) bring proceedings to punish Y for contempt of court in respect of that breach.[Act 3 of 2022 wef 02/01/2025] (7) Unless the Family Justice Rules provide otherwise, an application to a Family Court under this section (called in this subsection the relevant application) —(a) must be made in the same manner as an application for a summons is made to a District Court or Magistrate’s Court under the Criminal Procedure Code 2010; and (b) is to be dealt with —(i) as if the relevant application were a complaint for the purposes of that Code; but (ii) in accordance with only such provisions of that Code, and with such provisions of any other written law, as may be prescribed by the Family Justice Rules.[Act 18 of 2023 wef 02/01/2025] (8) Despite section 47(1) of the Family Justice Act 2014, an access order made by the General Division of the High Court (whether before, on or after 1 October 2014) may be enforced by a Family Court in accordance with this section as if the access order had been made by the Family Court, except that a Family Court has no power to vary an order of the General Division of the High Court.[Act 18 of 2023 wef 02/01/2025]