Charities Act - Singapore Statutes Online

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1 Short title and commencement

3 Appointment of Commissioner of Charities and other officers

4 Objectives and general functions of Commissioner

4B Functions of Council

5 Registration of charities

6 Effect of, and claims and objections to, registration

7 Power of Commissioner to require change of charity’s name

8 General power of Commissioner to institute inquiries

9 Power of Commissioner to call for documents and search records

10 Supply of false or misleading information to Commissioner, etc.

11 Disclosure of information to and by Commissioner

12 Duty to keep accounting records

13 Annual statements of accounts

14 Annual audit or examination of charity accounts

15 Supplementary provisions relating to audits, etc.

17 Public inspection of annual reports, etc.

19 Power to transfer all property, modify objects, etc.

20 Power to spend capital

21 Occasions for applying property cy-près

22 Application cy-près of gifts of donors unknown or disclaiming

23 Entrusting charity property to Public Trustee and termination of trust

24 Concurrent jurisdiction with High Court for certain purposes

25 Power to act for protection of charities

25A Power to suspend or remove trustees, etc., from membership of charity

26 Supplementary provisions relating to receiver and manager appointed for a charity

26A Power to direct application of charity property

26B Power to direct application of charity property after charity ceases to exist

27 Persons disqualified for being trustees of a charity

28 Persons acting as charity trustee while disqualified

29 Publicity for proceedings under this Part

30 Power to authorise dealings with charity property, etc.

31 Taking of legal proceedings

32 Charitable companies

33 Interpretation of this Part

34 Prohibition on professional fund-raiser, etc. raising funds for charitable institution without agreement in prescribed form

35 Professional fund-raisers, etc., required to indicate institutions benefiting and arrangements for remuneration

36 Cancellation of payments and agreements made in response to appeals

37 Right of charitable institution to prevent unauthorised fund-raising

38 False statements relating to institutions which are not registered charities

39 Interpretation of this Part

39A Prohibition on conducting fund-raising appeal without permit

39B Power of Commissioner to prohibit or restrict fund-raising appeal

40 Exclusion of judicial review

40A Interpretation of this Part

40B Appointment of Sector Administrators

40C Regulations relating to institutions of a public character and Sector Administrators

41 Manner of giving notice of charity meetings, etc.

42 Miscellaneous provisions as to orders of Commissioner

43 Service of documents

44 Offences by bodies corporate

45 Enforcement of orders of Commissioner

46 Appeals from Commissioner

46A Protection from liability

47 Power to compound

47A Prosecution of offences

49 Transitional provisions

Concurrent jurisdiction with High Court for certain purposes

24.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Commissioner may, with the consent of the Attorney-General, by order exercise the same jurisdiction and powers as are exercisable by the High Court in charity proceedings for the following purposes:

(a)	establishing a scheme for the administration of a charity;
(b)	appointing, discharging or removing a charity trustee or trustee for a charity, or removing an officer or employee; and
(c)	vesting or transferring property, or requiring or entitling any person to call for or make any transfer of property or any payment.

(2) The Commissioner shall not have jurisdiction under this section to try or determine the title to any property as between a charity or trustee for a charity and a person holding or claiming the property or an interest in it adversely to the charity, or to try or determine any question as to the existence or extent of any charge or trust.

(3) Before exercising any jurisdiction under this section, the Commissioner shall give notice of his intention to do so to each of the charity trustees except those who cannot be found or who have no known address in Singapore; and the notice may be given by post and, if given by post, may be addressed to the trustee’s last known address in Singapore.

(4) The Commissioner shall not exercise his jurisdiction under this section in any case (not referred to him by order of the court) which, by reason of its contentious character, or of any special question of law or of fact which it may involve, or for other reasons, the Commissioner may consider more fit to be adjudicated on by the court.

(5) An appeal against any order of the Commissioner under this section may at any time, within the 3 months beginning with the day following that on which the order is published, be brought in the High Court by the charity or any of the charity trustees, or any person interested in the charity, or by any person removed from any office or employment by the order.

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