Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority Act 2004 (Amendment of Sixth Schedule) Order 2024

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 06 Dec 2024

No. S 942

Accounting and Corporate
Regulatory Authority Act 2004

Accounting and Corporate
Regulatory Authority Act 2004
(Amendment of Sixth Schedule)
Order 2024

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 30E(2) of the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority Act 2004, the Minister for Finance makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1. This Order is the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority Act 2004 (Amendment of Sixth Schedule) Order 2024 and comes into operation on 9 December 2024 at 12.01 a.m.

Amendment of Sixth Schedule

2. In the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority Act 2004, in the Sixth Schedule —

(a)

replace paragraph 1 with —

“Definitions

1. In this Schedule —

“advocate and solicitor” and “Singapore law practice” have the meanings given by section 2(1) of the Legal Profession Act 1966;

“Registrar” and “residential address” have the meanings given by section 30C(4).”;

(b)

in paragraph 2(a), delete “or” at the end;

(c)

in paragraph 2(b), replace the full‑stop at the end with “; or”;

(d)

in paragraph 2, after sub‑paragraph (b), insert —

“(c)

a document filed or lodged with the Registrar or the Authority on or after 9 December 2024 that contains any of the following information about an individual:

(i)	the individual’s date of birth;
(ii)	the individual’s email address;
(iii)	the individual’s mobile telephone number.”;

(e)

renumber paragraph 3 as sub‑paragraph (1) of that paragraph;

(f)

in paragraph 3(1)(a), delete “or” at the end;

(g)

in paragraph 3(1)(b), replace the full‑stop at the end with “; or”;

(h)

in paragraph 3(1), after sub‑paragraph (b), insert —

“(c)	to a Singapore law practice under section 30B(1)(c) to assist an advocate and solicitor practising in the Singapore law practice in effecting the service of process on the individual.”;

(i)

in paragraph 3, after sub‑paragraph (1), insert —

“(2) Despite paragraph 2, and as an exception to section 30C(1), where the residential address of an individual was filed or lodged with the Registrar or the Authority before 9 December 2024, that residential address may be disclosed under section 30B(1).

(3) To avoid doubt, section 30C(1) does not exclude an individual’s contact address which is the same as his or her residential address from public disclosure.”; and

(j)

after paragraph 4, insert —

“Requirements in relation to disclosure of residential information

4A. Where the residential address of an individual is provided to any person for any of the following purposes, the person must ensure that it is only used for that purpose:

(a)	to assist in effecting the service of process on the individual mentioned in paragraph 3(1)(c);
(b)	to assist a person mentioned in paragraph 4 to exercise the person’s power or to fulfil the person’s obligations mentioned in that paragraph.”.

Made on 6 December 2024.

LAI CHUNG HAN

Permanent Secretary (Development),
Ministry of Finance,
Singapore.

[F014.001.0052.V1; AG/LEGIS/SL/2A/2020/9]

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