Singapore legislation

Section 57

of Charities Act 1994

Section 57

Regulations

Amended by34/20102/20182/20182/2018

(1)

The Minister may make any regulations that the Minister considers necessary or expedient for giving full effect to the provisions and purposes of this Act and for the due administration thereof.

(2)

Without limiting subsection (1), any such regulations may —

(a)

prescribe the procedures and conditions for the registration of charities or any class of charities;

(b)

prescribe the fees for the inspection of the register of charities or of other material kept by the Commissioner and for other services provided by the Commissioner;

(c)

provide for the obligations, or otherwise to regulate the conduct, of any person that is given or provided with any money or other property (whether as consideration or otherwise) for or in connection with any charitable, benevolent or philanthropic purpose;

(d)

provide for an electronic transactions service for any one or more of the following purposes:

(i)

for any person to submit or serve on the Commissioner electronically any application, document or information;

(ii)

for the Commissioner to serve any notice or other document on any person under this Act;

(iii)

for the Commissioner to publish or supply to any person any application, document or information;

(iv)

for any other prescribed purpose;

(e)

prescribe any other matter or thing required or permitted to be prescribed or necessary to be prescribed to give effect to this Act.

Amended by34/20102/2018

(3)

Regulations made for the purpose of subsection (2)(d) may —

(a)

provide for the manner in which and the persons by which the electronic transactions service may be used;

(b)

require that any prescribed application, document or information must be submitted to or served on the Commissioner only through the electronic transactions service;

(c)

provide that any prescribed application, document, or information, submitted to a prescribed public authority in the prescribed manner, is treated as having been submitted through the electronic transactions service to the Commissioner;

(d)

provide for the circumstances and the manner for correcting any error or omission in any application, document or information submitted, served, published or supplied through the electronic transactions service;

(e)

despite the Evidence Act 1893, provide for the admissibility of electronic records, and copies and printouts of such records, of any application, document or information submitted, served, published or supplied through the electronic transactions service, as evidence of the facts contained in the record, copy or printout; and

(f)

provide for any other matter necessary or incidental to the use, maintenance or management of the electronic transactions service.

Amended by2/2018

(4)

Regulations made under this Act (other than section 42) may provide that any person that contravenes the regulations shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years or to both and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding $100 for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues after conviction.

Amended by2/2018

(5)

All regulations made under this Act must be presented to Parliament as soon as possible after publication in the Gazette.[48