Singapore legislation
Section 12
Section 12
Enforcement of duty to make returns
(1)
This section applies if a VCC or any person —
having failed to comply with any provision of this Act or of any other law which requires any return, account, notice or other document to be filed or lodged with, or submitted to, the Registrar or the Official Receiver;
having failed to comply with any request of the Registrar or the Official Receiver to amend or complete and resubmit any document or to submit a fresh document; or
having failed to comply with the Registrar’s request under section 12D(7) of the Companies Act 1967 (as applied by section 11) 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 a register is rectified,fails to make good the failure within 14 days after service of the notice of the Registrar or the Official Receiver on the VCC or the person requiring compliance with the provision or request.
(2)
The Court may, on an application by any member or creditor of the VCC or by the Registrar or the Official Receiver, make an order directing the VCC, any officer of the VCC, or such person to make good the failure within the time specified in the order.
(3)
Such order may provide that all costs of and incidental to the application are to be borne by the VCC or by any officer of the VCC responsible for the failure, or by the person mentioned in subsection (2).
(4)
Nothing in this section limits the operation of any written law imposing penalties on a VCC or its officers or such person in respect of the failure.