Singapore legislation
Section 39
Section 39
Convening of extraordinary general meeting on requisition
(1)
The council of a management corporation shall, on receipt by the secretary of the management corporation of a requisition for an extraordinary general meeting signed by —
one or more persons entitled to vote in respect of one or more lots, the share value or the sum of the share value of which is at least 20% of the aggregate share value of all the lots in the subdivided building; or
not less than 25% of the total number of subsidiary proprietors of the lots in the subdivided building,forthwith proceed to convene an extraordinary general meeting of the management corporation to be held as soon as practicable but in any case not later than 6 weeks after the receipt by the secretary of the requisition.
(2)
The requisition shall state the objects of the meeting and shall be signed by the requisitionists and deposited at the registered address of the management corporation, and may consist of several documents in like form each signed by one or more requisitionist.
(3)
If the council does not within 14 days after the date of the deposit of the requisition proceed to convene a meeting, the requisitionists, or any one of them representing more than 50% of the total voting rights of all of them, may themselves, in the same manner as nearly as possible as that in which meetings are to be convened by the council, convene a meeting, but any meeting so convened shall not be held after the expiration of 3 months from that date.
(4)
Any reasonable expenses incurred by the requisitionists by reason of the failure of the council to convene a meeting shall be paid to the requisitionists by the management corporation.