Return to be filed where documents, etc., altered
372.—(1)  Where any change or alteration is made in —
(a)the charter, statutes, memorandum or articles of the foreign company or other instrument lodged with the Registrar;
(b)the directors of the foreign company;
(c)the agent or agents of the foreign company;
(d)the situation or address or designation of situation or address of the registered office of the foreign company in Singapore or the days or hours during which it is open and accessible to the public;
(e)the address of the registered office of the foreign company in its place of incorporation or origin;
(f)the name of the foreign company; or
(g)the powers of any directors resident in Singapore who are members of the local board of directors of the foreign company,
the foreign company shall, within one month or within such further period as the Registrar in special circumstances allows after the change or alteration, lodge with the Registrar particulars of the change or alteration and such documents as the regulations require.
[40/89; 28/94]
(1A)  Any agent of a foreign company who has changed his residential address shall —
(a)notify the foreign company of the change; and
(b)subject to subsection (1B), lodge with the Registrar a notice in the prescribed form notifying the Registrar of his new residential address.
[28/94]
(1B)  Where any agent of a foreign company has made a report of a change of his residential address under section 8 of the National Registration Act (Cap. 201), he shall be deemed to have notified the Registrar of the change in compliance with subsection (1A)(b).
[28/94]
(1C)  If default is made by any agent of a foreign company in complying with subsection (1A), he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000 and also to a default penalty.
[28/94]
(2)  If a foreign company increases its authorised share capital it shall within one month or within such further period as the Registrar in special circumstances allows after such increase lodge with the Registrar notice of the amount from which and of the amount to which it has been so increased.
(3)  If a foreign company not having a share capital changes the number of its members so that it is different from the registered number, the company shall, within one month or within such further period as the Registrar in special circumstances allows after the date on which the change was resolved or took place, lodge with the Registrar notice of the change in the prescribed form.
[12/2002; 8/2003]
(4)  If any order is made by a court under any law in force in the country in which a foreign company is incorporated which corresponds to section 210, the company shall, within one month or within such further period as the Registrar in special circumstances allows after the order was made, lodge with the Registrar a copy of that order.
[12/2002]
[UK, 1948, s. 409; Aust., 1961, s. 347]