Singapore legislation

Clause 12

Enforcement of duty to make returns

(1)

If a corporation or person, having made default in complying with —

(a)

any provision of this Act or of any other law which requires the lodging or filing in any manner with the Registrar or the Official Receiver of any return, account or other document or the giving of notice to him of any matter; or

(b)

any request of the Registrar or the Official Receiver to amend or complete and re-submit any document or to submit a fresh document,fails to make good the default within fourteen days after the service on the corporation or person of a notice requiring it to be done, the Court may, on an application by any member or creditor of the corporation or by the Registrar or the Official Receiver, make an order directing the corporation and any officer thereof or such person to make good the default within such time as is specified in the order.[Aust.s. 12 (8) to s. 12 (10).]

(2)

Any such order may provide that all costs of and incidential to the application shall be borne by the corporation or by any officers of the corporation responsible for the default or by such person.

(3)

Nothing in this section shall limit the operation of any written law imposing penalties on a corporation or its officers or such person in respect of any such default as aforesaid.

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