Criminal Justice Reform (Saving and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2025

No. S 760

Criminal Justice Reform Act 2018

Criminal Justice Reform
(Saving and Transitional Provisions)
Regulations 2025

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 128(7) of the Criminal Justice Reform Act 2018, the Minister for Law makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations are the Criminal Justice Reform (Saving and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2025 and come into operation on 31 December 2025.

Opinion of psychiatrist

2.  Section 270(1) of the Criminal Procedure Code 2010 does not prevent any opinion of a psychiatrist on any matter concerning psychiatry (when given as the opinion of an expert) from being admissible as evidence in a criminal proceeding, if —

(a) the opinion is adduced in evidence within 2 months after 31 December 2025;

(b) the opinion is adduced in evidence in a case where —

(i) the psychiatrist’s application for appointment as a member of the panel of psychiatrists established for the purposes of section 270 of the Code (called in this regulation the Panel) was submitted within 2 months after 31 December 2025; and

(ii) any of the following circumstances applies:

(A) the application mentioned in sub‑paragraph (i) is pending;

(B) the period for filing an appeal against the Selection Committee’s decision (on the application mentioned in sub‑paragraph (i)) not to appoint the psychiatrist as a member of the Panel has not expired;

(C) an appeal mentioned in sub‑paragraph (B) is pending;

(D) an application for an extension of time to file an appeal mentioned in sub‑paragraph (B) is pending;

(E) an extension of time mentioned in sub‑paragraph (D) has been granted and has not lapsed; or

(c) the psychiatrist’s treatment or assessment of the person whose psychiatric condition is to be assessed by the expert in the opinion had started before 31 December 2025.

Made on 25 November 2025.

LUKE GOH

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Law,
Singapore.

[CJR(SnT)Regs LAW 63/009 2025; AG/LEGIS/SL/68/2025/8]