Appointment of chief executive officer, director, etc., of designated telecommunication licensee
32F.—(1) No designated telecommunication licensee shall appoint a person as its chief executive officer, its director or the chairman of its board of directors unless it has obtained the approval of the Authority.
(2) Where a person has been appointed by a designated telecommunication licensee as its chief executive officer, its director, or the chairman of its board of directors without the approval of the Authority in contravention of subsection (1), the Authority may issue a direction to the licensee to remove that person as its chief executive officer, its director or the chairman of its board of directors, as the case may be.
(3) This section shall have effect notwithstanding the provisions of any other written law or of the memorandum or articles of association, or other constitution, of the designated telecommunication licensee.
(4) In this section —
“chief executive officer”, in relation to a designated telecommunication licensee, means any person, by whatever name described, who is —
(a)
in the direct employment of, or acting for or by arrangement with, the designated telecommunication licensee; and
(b)
principally responsible for the management and conduct of any type of business of the designated telecommunication licensee in Singapore,
and includes any person for the time being performing all or any of the functions or duties of a chief executive officer;
“director” has the same meaning as in section 4(1) of the Companies Act (Cap. 50).