Singapore legislation
Section 261
Section 261
Size, durability and legibility of documents delivered to Registrar of Companies
(1)
For the purposes of securing that the documents delivered to the Registrar of Companies under the provisions of Parts 4 to 11 are of a standard size, durable and easily legible, the Minister may by regulations prescribe such requirements (whether as to size, weight, quality or colour of paper, size, type or colour of lettering, or otherwise) as the Minister may consider appropriate and different requirements may be prescribed for different documents or classes of documents.
(2)
If under any provision of Parts 4 to 11, there is delivered to the Registrar of Companies a document (whether an original document or a copy) which in the opinion of the Registrar of Companies does not comply with the requirements prescribed under this section that are applicable to it, the Registrar of Companies may serve on any person by whom under that provision the document was required to be delivered (or, if there are 2 or more such persons, may serve on any of them) a notice stating the Registrar of Companies’ opinion to that effect and indicating the prescribed requirements with which in the Registrar of Companies’ opinion the document does not comply.
(3)
Where the Registrar of Companies serves a notice under subsection (2) with respect to a document delivered under any such provision, then, for the purposes of any written law which enables a penalty to be imposed in respect of any omission to deliver to the Registrar of Companies a document required to be delivered under that provision (and, in particular, for the purposes of any such law under which such a penalty may be imposed by reference to each day during which the omission continues) —
any duty imposed by that provision to deliver such a document to the Registrar of Companies is to be treated as not having been discharged by the delivery of that document; but(b)no account is to be taken of any days falling within the period specified in subsection (4).
(4)
The period mentioned in subsection (3)(b) is the period beginning on the day on which the document was delivered to the Registrar of Companies as mentioned in subsection (2) and ending on the fourteenth day after the date of service of the notice under subsection (2) by virtue of which subsection (3) applies.
(5)
In this section, any reference to delivering a document is to be construed as including a reference to sending, forwarding, producing or (in the case of a notice) giving it.