Charities Act 1994 - Singapore Statutes Online

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3 Appointment of Commissioner of Charities and other officers

4 Objectives and general functions of Commissioner

6 Functions of Council

7 Registration of charities

8 Effect of, and claims and objections to, registration

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

10 General power of Commissioner to institute inquiries

11 Duty to keep accounting records

12 Financial statements

13 Annual audit or examination of charity accounts

15 Public inspection of annual reports, etc.

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

18 Power to spend capital

19 Occasions for applying property cy-près

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

21 Entrusting charity property to Public Trustee and termination of trust

22 Concurrent jurisdiction with General Division of High Court for certain purposes

23 Power to act for protection of charities

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

25 Supplementary provisions relating to receiver and manager appointed for charity

26 Power to direct application of charity property

27 Power to direct application of charity property after charity ceases to exist

28 Disqualifications and effects of removal

29 Persons acting in capacity from which disqualified

30 Publicity for proceedings under this Part

31 Power to authorise dealings with charity property, etc.

32 Taking of legal proceedings

33 Charitable companies

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

35 Interpretation of this Part

36 Prohibition on conducting fund-raising appeal without permit

37 Power of Commissioner to prohibit or restrict, or suspend, fund‑raising appeal

38 Regulations relating to fund-raising appeals

39 Exclusion of judicial review

40 Interpretation of this Part

41 Appointment of Sector Administrators

42 Regulations relating to institutions of a public character and Sector Administrators

43 Manner of giving notice of charity meetings, etc.

44 Power of Commissioner to call for documents and search records

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

46 Disclosure of information to and by Commissioner

47 Miscellaneous provisions as to orders of Commissioner

48 Service of documents

49 Holding out as registered charity or institution of a public character

50 Offences by corporations

51 Offences by unincorporated associations or partnerships

52 Enforcement of orders of Commissioner

53 Appeals from Commissioner

54 Protection from liability

55 Power to compound

56 Prosecution of offences

58 Transitional provisions

Entrusting charity property to Public Trustee and termination of trust

21.—(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 the Public Trustee, or appoint any person to transfer the property to the Public Trustee; 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.

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(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 or her; and the Public Trustee’s receipt for the property comprised in a testamentary gift to a charity is 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 the Public Trustee from the trusteeship as respects all or any of that property.

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(4) Where the Public Trustee is discharged from his or her trusteeship of any property, or the trusts on which he or she 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.

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(5) No person is —

(a)	liable for any loss occasioned by the person’s acting in conformity with an order under this section or by the person’s giving effect to anything done pursuant to that order; or
(b)	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 pursuant to this section operates as a breach of a covenant or condition against alienation or give rise to a forfeiture.

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