Moratorium
53.—(1)  The Authority may, if it considers it to be in the interests of the affected persons of a specified financial institution, make an order prohibiting that specified financial institution from carrying on its significant business or from doing or performing any act or function connected with its significant business or any aspect thereof that may be specified in the order.
(2)  The Authority may, if it considers it to be in the interests of the affected persons of a specified financial institution, apply to the High Court for, and the High Court may make, one or more of the following orders:
(a)that no resolution shall be passed, and no order shall be made, for the winding up of the specified financial institution;
(b)that no judicial management order under Part VIIIA of the Companies Act (Cap. 50) shall be made in relation to the specified financial institution, or that any judicial management order which is in force in relation to the specified financial institution shall be discharged;
(c)that no proceedings shall be commenced or continued by or against the specified financial institution in respect of any business of the specified financial institution;
(d)that no execution, distress or other legal process shall be commenced, levied or continued against any property of the specified financial institution;
(e)that no steps shall be taken to enforce any security over any property of the specified financial institution or to repossess from the specified financial institution any goods under any hire-purchase agreement, chattels leasing agreement or retention of title agreement;
(f)that no steps shall be taken by any person, other than a person specified in the order, to sell, transfer, assign or otherwise dispose of any property of the specified financial institution.
(3)  Any sale, transfer, assignment or other disposition of any property of the specified financial institution in contravention of any order made under subsection (2)(f) shall be void.
(4)  Any order made under subsection (2) shall be valid for a period not exceeding 6 months.
(5)  So long as an order under subsection (1) remains in force, the Authority may, by notice in writing to that specified financial institution, suspend the approval, authorisation, designation, recognition, registration or licence of that specified financial institution under the relevant Act.
[Act 31 of 2017 wef 04/06/2018]
[Act 9 of 2013 wef 18/04/2013]