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No. S 54

Companies Act

(Chapter 50)

Companies (Filing of Documents) (Amendment) Regulations 2006

In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 12A (1A) and (1B) and 411 of the Companies Act, the Minister for Finance hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Companies (Filing of Documents) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 and shall come into operation on 30th January 2006.

New Parts IXA and IXB

2. The Companies (Filing of Documents) Regulations (Rg 7) are amended by inserting, immediately after regulation 41, the following Parts:

“PART IXA

REDUCTION OF SHARE CAPITAL

Notice of application to cancel resolution

41A. For the purposes of section 78D(4)(b) of the Act, the notice of the application to the Court for the resolution to be cancelled shall be lodged in the applicable form.

Notice of order of Court cancelling resolution

41B. For the purposes of section 78F(4) of the Act, the notice of the order shall be lodged in the applicable form.

Order of Court dismissing application for reduction

41C. Where the Court dismisses the application by a company under section 78G(1) of the Act, the company shall lodge the order in accordance with regulation 35.

Extension of time to lodge order of Court and notice containing reduction information

41D. An application for an extension of time to lodge the order of Court and the notice containing the reduction information under section 78I(3) of the Act shall be made in the applicable form.

PART IXB

AMALGAMATION

Registration of amalgamation

41E. Where the amalgamation proposal specifies a date on which the amalgamation is intended to become effective, the application for registration of amalgamation under section 215E of the Act shall not be made earlier than 2 months before the specified date.

Special resolution for amalgamation proposal

41F. A special resolution made under section 215C(1)(a) of the Act shall be lodged in the applicable form in accordance with section 186 of the Act.

Court order under section 215H of Act

41G. Where a Court makes an order on an application made under section 215H of the Act, the company shall lodge the order in accordance with regulation 35.”.

Amendment of Schedule

3. The Schedule to the Companies (Filing of Documents) Regulations is amended —

(a)	by inserting, immediately after the words “the company is and has” in sub-paragraph (a) of the first and second paragraphs of Part V, the words “at all relevant times”; and
(b)	by inserting, immediately after the words “the company is and has” in sub-paragraph (a) of the first paragraph of Part VI, the words “at all relevant times”.

Made this 27th day of January 2006.

LIM SIONG GUAN

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Finance,
Singapore.

[F 014.013.0031 Vol. 1; AG/LEG/SL/50/2005/4 Vol. 1]