Singapore legislation

Section 39

of Business Names Registration Act 2014

Section 39

Enforcement of duty to make returns

(1)

If a person —

(a)

having failed to comply with —

(i)

any provision of this Act; or

(ii)

any provision of any other written law which requires any return, account, notice or other document to be filed or lodged with, or submitted to, the Registrar,fails to make good the non‑compliance within 14 days after service of the Registrar’s notice to comply with the provision;

(b)

fails to comply with the Registrar’s request to amend or complete, and resubmit any document or to submit a fresh document within 14 days after service of the Registrar’s request; or

(c)

fails to comply with the Registrar’s request under section 27(7) to take such steps within such time as the Registrar may specify to ensure that any error or defect in any particulars or document in the register is rectified,a District Court or Magistrate’s Court may, on the Registrar’s application, make an order directing the relevant person to make good the failure within such time as is specified in the order.

(2)

Any such order may provide that all the costs of and incidental to the application are to be borne by a relevant person.

(3)

Nothing in this section limits the operation of any other provision of this Act or any written law imposing penalties on a relevant person in respect of any such default referred to in this section.

(4)

In this section, “relevant person” means —

(a)

in the case of an individual proprietor, that individual;

(b)

in the case of a firm, all or any of its partners;

(c)

in the case of a corporation, the corporation, any of its officers as defined in section 40(5) or both; and

(d)

in the case of a person who carries on a business wholly or mainly as nominee of or trustee for another person, the firstmentioned person.

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