37.—(1) The Minister may make rules for carrying out the purposes and provisions of this Act.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the Minister may make rules —
(a)
to prescribe the maximum amount which may be lent to a borrower or any class or description of borrowers;
(b)
to prescribe the class or description of borrowers to which a moneylender may grant a loan, or a loan above a specified amount, either generally or in specified circumstances;
(c)
to regulate the use of advertisements by or on behalf of any moneylender, or any solicitation or canvassing for business by or on behalf of any moneylender;
(d)
to prescribe the types of activities and services that a moneylender may not engage in or provide;
(e)
to specify the places where a moneylender may conduct the business of moneylending;
(f)
to require a moneylender to keep particular accounts or records relating to loans;
(g)
to prescribe the manner in which accounts and records are to be kept and the particulars to be entered therein;
(h)
to regulate the conduct of the business of moneylending, or specific types of moneylending activities or services;
(i)
to provide for the detection and prevention of money laundering or the financing of terrorism, or for the reporting of transactions suspected of involving money laundering or terrorism financing;
(j)
to discharge or facilitate the discharge of any obligation binding on Singapore by virtue of a decision of the Security Council of the United Nations;
(k)
to prescribe the forms for the purposes of this Act;
(l)
to prescribe the fees to be paid in respect of any matter required for the purposes of this Act and the refund and remission, whether wholly or in part, of such fees; and
(m)
to prescribe all matters and things which by this Act are required or permitted to be prescribed or which are necessary or expedient to be prescribed to give effect to this Act.
(3) Rules made under this section may —
(a)
relate to any moneylender, whether he is a licensee or he is exempted from any or all of the provisions of this Act;
(b)
relate to all or any class or description of moneylenders; and
(c)
make different provisions for different classes or descriptions of moneylenders.
(4) Rules made under this section may provide that a contravention of any specified provision thereof shall be an offence, and —
(a)
in respect of the rules referred to in subsection (2)(i) or (j), may provide for penalties not exceeding a fine of $100,000; and
(b)
in respect of any other rules, may provide —
(i)
in a case where the offender is an individual, for penalties not exceeding a fine of $20,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or both for each offence; or
(ii)
in any other case, for penalties not exceeding a fine of $50,000 for each offence.