Accountants Act 2004 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 2 · Administration of Act
8A. Transitional provision for contact address
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Where an individual maintained an alternate address with the Registrar under this Act immediately before 9 December 2024, as from that date, the Registrar must cause —
Registrar
“Registrar” means the Registrar of Public Accountants appointed by the Authority under section 7(1)(a) and includes a Deputy Registrar and an Assistant Registrar appointed under section 7(1)(b);
the alternate address to be kept as the individual’s contact address in a register maintained under section 8(1), instead of as the individual’s alternate address, until notice of a change in the individual’s contact address is lodged under any ACRA administered Act on or after that date; and
the contact address to be made available for public access under section 8(2)(b) as the individual’s address.
Where an individual did not maintain an alternate address with the Registrar under this Act immediately before 9 December 2024, but the individual’s residential address is kept in a register maintained under section 8(1), the Registrar must, as from that date, cause —
residential address
“residential address”, in relation to an individual, means the individual’s usual place of residence;
the individual’s residential address to be kept as the individual’s contact address in that register, in addition to being kept as the individual’s residential address, until notice of a change in the individual’s contact address is lodged under any ACRA administered Act on or after that date; and
the contact address to be made available for public access under section 8(2)(b) as the individual’s address.
Where —
before 9 December 2024, the residential address of an individual practitioner of an accounting corporation, an accounting firm or an accounting LLP, a director of an accounting corporation, a partner of an accounting firm or a partner or manager of an accounting LLP (called in this subsection the individual) has been entered in a register mentioned in section 8(1) of that accounting corporation, accounting firm or accounting LLP, as the case may be; and
on 9 December 2024, the registers mentioned in section 8(1) of that accounting corporation, accounting firm or accounting LLP (as the case may be) do not show that the individual holds any of the positions mentioned in paragraph (a) in the same accounting corporation, accounting firm or accounting LLP, as the case may be,the Registrar must, as from that date, cause the individual’s residential address to be excluded from public access to that register of that accounting corporation, accounting firm or accounting LLP (as the case may be) under section 8(2)(b).
[Deleted by Act 24 of 2025 wef 06/05/2026]