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Insolvency, Restructuring
and Dissolution Act 2018

(ACT 40 OF 2018)

Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution
(Filing, Lodgment and Submission of Documents)
Regulations 2020

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 449 of the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018, the Minister for Law makes the following Regulations:

PART 1

PRELIMINARY

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution (Filing, Lodgment and Submission of Documents) Regulations 2020 and come into operation on 30 July 2020.

Definitions

2. In these Regulations —

“document” includes any application, form, report, certification, notice, confirmation, declaration, return or other document (whether in electronic form or otherwise) filed or lodged with, or submitted to, the Official Assignee, the Official Receiver or the Registrar of Companies;

“transaction” —

(a)

in relation to the Official Assignee or the Official Receiver, means —

(i)	the filing or lodgment of any document with the Official Assignee or the Official Receiver (as the case may be) or the submission, production, delivery, provision or sending of any document to the Official Assignee or the Official Receiver, as the case may be;
(ii)	the making of any application, submission or request to the Official Assignee or the Official Receiver, as the case may be;
(iii)	the provision of any undertaking or declaration to the Official Assignee or the Official Receiver, as the case may be; or
(iv)	the extraction, retrieval, or accessing of any document, record or information maintained by the Official Assignee or the Official Receiver, as the case may be; or

(b)

in relation to the Registrar of Companies, has the meaning given by section 255(4) of the Act.

Forms

3.—(1) The forms to be used for the purposes of these Regulations —

(a)	in the case of a transaction with the Official Assignee or the Official Receiver, are those set out on the Internet website of the Ministry of Law at https://www.mlaw.gov.sg; or
(b)	in the case of a transaction with the Registrar of Companies, are those set out on the Internet website of the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority at https://www.bizfile.gov.sg.

(2) Where such forms are applicable, any costs occasioned by the use of any other forms that are not prescribed must, unless the Court otherwise directs, be borne by the party using such other forms.

Particulars prescribed by forms

4. Where a form prescribed under the Act or any subsidiary legislation made under the Act requires completion by the insertion of, or the attachment to the form of a document that contains, particulars or other matters mentioned in the form, those particulars or other matters are prescribed as the particulars or other matters required under the Act or the subsidiary legislation for which the form is prescribed.

Directions in forms

5. A form to be used for the purposes of these Regulations must be completed in accordance with any direction specified by the Official Assignee, the Official Receiver or the Registrar of Companies, or in the form.

Made on 16 June 2020.

LOH KHUM YEAN

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Law,
Singapore.

[LAW 06/011/004; AG/LEGIS/SL/142B/2015/13 Vol. 1]