Singapore legislation

Section 102

of Monetary Authority of Singapore Act 1970

Section 102

Recovery of sums withdrawn

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(1)

Where one or more withdrawals have been made from a resolution fund under section 101, the Minister may direct the trustee of the resolution fund to recover the sum or sums withdrawn in one or both of the following ways:

(a)

by making a claim for all or part of that sum or those sums from the financial institution under resolution;

(b)

by imposing a levy, in accordance with section 104 and the regulations made under section 126 for that section, on the following persons (called in this Part levy payers):

(i)

financial institutions that have been prescribed by regulations made under section 126 as belonging to the same category as the financial institution under resolution;

(ii)

if the financial institution under resolution is a market infrastructure, those participants of the market infrastructure and of other market infrastructures, that have been prescribed by regulations made under section 126 as levy payers;

(iii)

if the financial institution under resolution is a payment system operator, those participants of the payment system operator that have been prescribed by regulations made under section 126 as levy payers.

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(2)

In addition to the purpose in subsection (1), the Minister may direct the trustee of a resolution fund to impose a levy, in accordance with section 104 and the regulations made under section 126 for section 104, on levy payers for the purpose of meeting any shortfall in the amount of the levy collected to make good the amount withdrawn from the account, or for any other prescribed purpose.

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(3)

The Minister may only give a direction under subsection (1) or (2) on a recommendation of the Authority.

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(4)

The Authority must, as soon as practicable after the Minister has given a direction under subsection (1) or (2), publish a notice in the Gazette and in such newspaper or newspapers as the Minister determines, of the direction.

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