Company or foreign company with a charitable purpose which contravenes Charities Act 1994 or regulations made thereunder may be wound up or struck off register
42A.—(1)  This section applies to a company or a foreign company —
(a)that is registered under the Charities Act 1994; or
(b)that has as its sole object or one of its principal objects a charitable purpose connected with persons, events or objects outside Singapore.
(2)  A company or foreign company to which this section applies that is convicted of an offence under the Charities Act 1994 or any regulations made thereunder is deemed to be a company or foreign company (as the case may be) that is being used for purposes prejudicial to public welfare and may be liable, in the case of a company, to be wound up by the Court under section 125(1)(n) of the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018 or, in the case of a foreign company, to have its name struck off the register by the Registrar under section 377(8).
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(3)  In this section, “charitable purpose” means any charitable purpose or object or any other religious, public or social purpose or object, whether or not charitable under the law of Singapore.