From 2025, Singapore will be able to issue electronic apostilles for documents online, THE EDGE reports. The Singapore Academy of Law (SAL) is working on the implementation of the new technology in collaboration with the Infocommunications Media Development Authority.
On 16 September, the Hague Convention of 5 October 1961 abolishing the requirement of legalisation for foreign public documents came into full force in Singapore. Thus, authentication with apostille was introduced as a simplified authentication procedure of public documents.
On November 2, 2020, the Singapore's Parliament passed the Apostille Bill. This Bill introduces the obligations under the 1961 Hague Convention, which seeks to abolish the requirements of legalisation for foreign public documents.This facilitates the cross-border use of official documents by eliminating the requirements of legalisation for public documents of contracting parties.
