Companies (Filing of Documents) (Amendment) Regulations 2024

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 06 Dec 2024

No. S 951

Companies Act 1967

Companies
(Filing of Documents)
(Amendment) Regulations 2024

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 411 of the Companies Act 1967, the Minister for Finance makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Companies (Filing of Documents) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 and come into operation on 9 December 2024.

New regulations 7A and 7B

2. In the Companies (Filing of Documents) Regulations (Rg 7), after regulation 7, insert —

“Excluded documents under section 12(2AB) of Act

7A.—(1) For the purposes of section 12(2AB) of the Act, the following documents filed or lodged with, or obtained by, the Registrar on or after 9 December 2024, are excluded documents to which section 12(2)(a) and (b) of the Act does not apply:

(a)

a document (other than a form mentioned in regulation 7B) that contains any of the following information about an individual:

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

(b)

where a person has applied to the Registrar —

(i)	under section 27(2A) or 28(3A) of the Act to give a direction to a company to change the name of the company; or
(ii)	under section 378(6) of the Act to give a direction to a foreign company to change the name of the foreign company,

any other document lodged by the person and the company or foreign company (as the case may be) in respect of the application;

(c)

where a relevant application is made — any other document lodged in respect of the relevant application;

(d)

where an objection to strike a company’s name off the register is delivered under section 344C(1) of the Act — any other document lodged in respect of the objection;

(e)

where an application is made under section 358(1) of the Act by a foreign corporate entity to be registered under the Act — any financial statements furnished with the application.

(2) In this regulation, “relevant application” means —

(a)	an application mentioned in section 27(10), 205AB(1)(a), 344A(1), 373(12), (13) or (13A), 377(10) or 378(11) of the Act;
(b)	an application for approval under section 29(1) or (2) or 201(12) of the Act; or
(c)	an application under section 202(1) or 357(1) of the Act.

Prescribed information under section 12(2AC) of Act

7B. For the purposes of section 12(2AC)(c) of the Act, the reference to a document in section 12(2)(a) and (b) of the Act excludes the following entries in a form submitted on the electronic transaction system:

(a)	a person’s email address;
(b)	an individual’s residential address;
(c)	an individual’s mobile telephone number.”.

[G.N. Nos. S 862/2005; S 54/2006; S 603/2007; S 399/2013; S 281/2015; S 380/2015; S 832/2015; S 117/2017; S 513/2018; S 633/2020]

Made on 6 December 2024.

LAI CHUNG HAN

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

[F014.001.0052.V1; AG/LEGIS/SL/50/2020/19]

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