6.—(1) For the purposes of the Act, a prescribed person is —
(a)
an advocate and solicitor;
(b)
an accountant registered with the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (formerly known as the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore);
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(c)
a member of the Association of International Accountants (Singapore Branch);
(d)
a member of the Institute of Company Accountants, Singapore;
(e)
a member of the Singapore Association of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators;
(f)
a corporate secretarial agent;
(g)
a member of such other professional association as may be approved by the Minister and published by notification in the Gazette;
(h)
in a matter under these Regulations other than the incorporation of a company or the registration of a foreign company —
(i)
an employee of a service bureau who is approved by the Minister as a prescribed person; or
(ii)
an employee of the firm or corporation in which a prescribed person referred to in sub-paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f) or (g) is a partner or is employed, if —
(A)
the employee is authorised by the prescribed person to act on that prescribed person’s behalf in the matter; and
(B)
the employee is, in the opinion of the prescribed person, someone who has the knowledge and experience relevant to that matter; or
(i)
any other person who, in the opinion of the Minister, is a fit and proper person to be a prescribed person.
(2) In this regulation —
“corporate secretarial agent” means a person who is carrying on the business of corporate secretarial services for one or more companies and who has been a secretary of a company for at least 3 years of the preceding 5 years;
“service bureau” means a service bureau which the Registrar has authorised to be established for the purpose of assisting in the lodgment of documents using the electronic filing system.