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No. S 547

Customs Act

(CHAPTER 70)

Customs (Amendment)
Regulations 2018

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 143(1) of the Customs Act, the Minister for Finance makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Customs (Amendment) Regulations 2018 and are deemed to have come into operation on 3 January 2016.

Amendment of regulation 2

2. Regulation 2 of the Customs Regulations (Rg 2) is amended by deleting the definition of “certificate of registration”.

Amendment of regulation 82

3. Regulation 82 of the Customs Regulations is amended —

(a)

by deleting paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) and substituting the following paragraphs:

“(a)

the name and address of the applicant;

(b)

if the applicant is an individual or a partnership in which any partner is an individual —

(i)	the identity card number of the individual or, if the individual is not registered under the National Registration Act (Cap. 201), the passport number of the individual; and
(ii)	the style under which the individual or partnership carries on business;

(c)

if the applicant is a registered entity, the registration number of the entity;”; and

(b)

by renumbering the regulation as paragraph (1) of that regulation, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following paragraph:

“(2) In this regulation —

“registered entity” means —

(a)	a company incorporated, or a foreign company registered, under the Companies Act (Cap. 50); or
(b)	a person registered under the Business Names Registration Act 2014 (Act 29 of 2014), the Limited Liability Partnerships Act (Cap. 163A) or the Limited Partnerships Act (Cap. 163B);

“registration number” means —

(a)	in the case of a company incorporated under the Companies Act, the number assigned to the company upon incorporation under that Act;
(b)	in the case of a foreign company registered under the Companies Act, the number assigned to the company upon registration under that Act;
(c)	in the case of a person registered under the Business Names Registration Act 2014, the number assigned to the person upon registration under that Act;
(d)	in the case of a limited liability partnership registered under the Limited Liability Partnerships Act, the number assigned to the limited liability partnership upon registration under that Act; and
(e)	in the case of a limited partnership registered under the Limited Partnerships Act, the number assigned to the limited partnership upon registration under that Act.”.

[G.N. Nos. S 707/2011; S 12/2012; S 25/2012; S 457/2012; S 187/2013; S 437/2015; S 56/2017]

Made on 29 August 2018.

TAN CHING YEE

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Finance,
Singapore.

[Customs (Conf) 0113/69/V10; AG/LEGIS/SL/70/2015/1 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 143(2) of the Customs Act).