Singapore legislation
Section 295C
Section 295C
Remedies in cases of oppression or injustice
(1)
Any participant of a real estate investment trust may apply to a court for an order under this section on the ground —
that the affairs of the trust are being conducted by the manager or trustee for the trust, or the powers of the directors of the manager or directors of the trustee for the trust are being exercised, in a manner oppressive to one or more of the participants of the trust including the applicant or in disregard of the applicant’s or their interests as participants of the trust; or
that some act of the manager or trustee for the trust, carried out in its capacity as manager or trustee for the trust (as the case may be) has been done or is threatened or that some resolution of the participants of the trust or any class of them has been passed or is proposed which unfairly discriminates against or is otherwise prejudicial to one or more of the participants of the trust including the applicant.
(2)
If on such application the court is of the opinion that either of the grounds referred to in subsection (1) is established, the court may, with a view to bringing to an end to or remedying the matters complained of, make such order as it thinks fit and, without limiting the foregoing, the order may —
direct or prohibit any act or cancel or vary any transaction or resolution;
regulate the conduct of the affairs of the manager or trustee for the trust in relation to the trust in future;
authorise civil proceedings against the directors of the manager or directors of the trustee for the trust to be brought in the name of or on behalf of all the participants of the trust as a whole by such person or persons and on such terms as the court may direct;
provide for the purchase of the units in the trust by other participants of the trust;
provide that the trust be wound up; or
provide that the costs and expenses of and incidental to the application for the order are to be raised and paid out of the property of the trust or to be borne and paid in such manner and by such persons as the court deems fit.
(3)
Where an order under this section makes any alteration in or addition to the trust deed of any trust, then, despite anything in any other provision of this Act but subject to the provisions of the order, the manager or trustee of the trust concerned does not have power, without the leave of the court, to make any further alteration in or addition to the trust deed that is inconsistent with the provisions of the order; but subject to the foregoing provisions of this subsection, the alterations or additions made by the order have the same effect as if duly made by special resolution of the participants of the trust.
(4)
A copy of any order made under this section must be lodged by the applicant with the Authority within 7 days after the making of the order.
(5)
Any person who contravenes subsection (4) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding $1,000 for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues after conviction.
(6)
This section applies to a person who is not a participant of a trust but to whom units in the trust have been transmitted by operation of law as it applies to the participants of a trust; and references to a participant or participants are to be construed accordingly.