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

12 Duty to keep accounting records

13 Financial statements

14 Annual audit or examination of charity accounts

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 General Division of 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 Disqualifications and effects of removal

28 Persons acting in capacity from which 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

32A Power to relieve governing board members, etc., from personal liability

39 Interpretation of this Part

39A Prohibition on conducting fund-raising appeal without permit

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

39C Regulations relating to fund-raising appeals

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.

41A Power of Commissioner to call for documents and search records

41B Supply of false or misleading information to Commissioner, etc.

41C Disclosure of information to and by Commissioner

42 Miscellaneous provisions as to orders of Commissioner

43 Service of documents

43A Holding out as registered charity or institution of a public character

44 Offences by corporations

44A Offences by unincorporated associations or partnerships

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

Entrusting charity property to Public Trustee and termination of trust

23.—(1) The General Division of the High Court may by order vest any property held by or in trust for a charity in the Public Trustee or authorise or require the persons in whom the property is vested to transfer it to him, or appoint any person to transfer the property to him; and the property may be vested in the Public Trustee with or without powers of management as the General Division of the High Court may direct.

[Act 40 of 2019 wef 02/01/2021]

(2) Where any property is held by or in trust for a charity, or is comprised in any testamentary gift to a charity, the property may, with the agreement of the Public Trustee, be transferred to him; and his receipt for the property comprised in a testamentary gift to a charity shall be a complete discharge of the personal representative.

(3) Where property is vested in the Public Trustee in trust for a charity, the General Division of the High Court may make an order discharging him from the trusteeship as respects all or any of that property.

[Act 40 of 2019 wef 02/01/2021]

(4) Where the Public Trustee is discharged from his trusteeship of any property, or the trusts on which he holds any property come to an end, the General Division of the High Court may make such vesting orders and give such directions as may seem to the General Division of the High Court to be necessary or expedient in consequence.

[Act 40 of 2019 wef 02/01/2021]

(5) No person shall —

(a)	be liable for any loss occasioned by his acting in conformity with an order under this section or by his giving effect to anything done in pursuance of that order; or
(b)	be excused from so doing by reason of the order under this section having been in any respect improperly obtained.

(6) No vesting or transfer of any property in pursuance of this section shall operate as a breach of a covenant or condition against alienation or give rise to a forfeiture.

[Charities Act 1985 Ed., s. 13]

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