On 1 June 2012, the Singapore International Arbitration (Amendment) Act 2012 and Foreign Limitation Periods Act 2012 came into force.

In 2011, the Singapore Ministry of Law published draft bills proposing amendments to Singapore's International Arbitration Act (IAA) and a Proposed Enactment of the Foreign Limitation Periods Act (see Legal update, Proposed amendments to Singapore's International Arbitration Act and Article, Singapore: round-up 2011/2012). On 8 March 2012, the Government of Singapore introduced the Bills to Parliament, which were passed without amendment on 9 April 2012.

Both Acts were Gazetted on 1 June 2012 and entered into force on that date. For a summary of the legislative changes, see Legal update, Proposed changes to Singapore's arbitration laws.