Singapore legislation
Section 65
Section 65
Grant of certificate of incorporation of trustees
(1)
Trustees, not less than 3 in number, may be appointed by any body or association of persons established for any religious, educational, literary, scientific, social or charitable purpose, and such trustees may apply, in the manner provided in section 67, to the Minister for a certificate of registration of the trustees of that body or association of persons as a body corporate (called in this Part a certificate of incorporation).
(2)
If the Minister, having regard to the extent, nature and objects and other circumstances of the body or association of persons, considers such incorporation expedient, he or she may grant the certificate of incorporation, subject to such conditions or directions generally as the Minister thinks fit to insert in the certificate, and particularly relating to the qualifications and number of the trustees, their tenure and avoidance of office, the mode of appointing new trustees, the custody and use of the common seal, the amount of the land which the trustees may hold, and the purposes for which the land may be applied.
(3)
Upon the grant of the certificate of incorporation, the trustees —
become a body corporate by the name described in the certificate;
have perpetual succession and a common seal;
have power to sue and be sued in the corporate name; and
subject to the conditions and directions contained in the certificate, have power to acquire, purchase, take, hold and enjoy movable and immovable property, and by instruments under the common seal to sell, convey, assign, surrender and yield up, mortgage, charge, demise, re‑assign, transfer or otherwise dispose of movable and immovable property now or in future belonging to, or held for the benefit of, the body or association of persons, in such and the like manner, and subject to such restrictions and provisions, as the trustees might do, without such incorporation, for the purposes of the body or association of persons.