Section 2

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —

“alternate address” means an alternate address maintained with the Registrar under section 37 that meets the requirements of that section;

“Authority” means the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority established under the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority Act 2004;

“Authority’s website” means the Authority’s Internet website;

“company” has the meaning given by section 4(1) of the Companies Act 1967;

“corporation” means any body corporate formed or incorporated or existing in Singapore or outside Singapore and includes —

“financial year”, in relation to a limited liability partnership, means the period in respect of which any profit and loss account of the limited liability partnership is made up, whether that period is a year or not;

“firm” has the meaning given by section 2(1) of the Business Names Registration Act 2014;

“foreign company” has the meaning given by section 4(1) of the Companies Act 1967;

“identification” means —

“limited liability partnership” has the meaning given by section 4(1);

“limited liability partnership agreement”, in relation to a limited liability partnership, means any agreement expressed or implied between the partners of the limited liability partnership or between the limited liability partnership and its partners which determines the mutual rights and duties of the partners and their rights and duties in relation to the limited liability partnership;

“liquidator” includes the Official Receiver when acting as the liquidator of a corporation;

“manager”, in relation to a limited liability partnership, means any person (whether or not a partner of the limited liability partnership) who is concerned in or takes part in the management of the limited liability partnership (whether or not the person’s particulars or consent to act are lodged with the Registrar as required under section 29(2));

“officer”, in relation to a limited liability partnership, means —

“Official Receiver” has the meaning given by section 2(1) of the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018;

“partner”, in relation to a limited liability partnership, means any person who has been admitted as a partner in the limited liability partnership in accordance with the limited liability partnership agreement;

“private company” has the meaning given by section 4(1) of the Companies Act 1967;

“register” means any register kept and maintained under this Act;

“Registrar” means the Registrar of Limited Liability Partnerships appointed under section 3(2)(a) and includes any Deputy Registrar or Assistant Registrar appointed under section 3(2)(b);

“residential address”, in relation to an individual, means the individual’s usual place of residence;

“solicitor” means an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court.

Where a limited liability partnership has more than one manager —

A reference in this Act to the managers of a limited liability partnership is, in the case of a limited liability partnership which has only one manager, a reference to that manager.

A reference in this Act to the doing of any act by 2 or more managers of a limited liability partnership, in the case of a limited liability partnership which has only one manager, is to the doing of that act by that manager.

For the purposes of sections 20(6), 21(2), 23(5) and 24(9) and (10), any reference to the Minister includes a reference to the Minister of State for his or her Ministry who is authorised by the Minister for the purpose of hearing an appeal under that section.