Clause 139

Every company shall have one or more secretaries each of whom shall be a natural person who has his principal or only place of residence in Singapore.[U.K.ss. 177-179.][Aust. s. 132.]

Subsection (1) of this section shall not operate to prevent a corporation which was acting as the secretary of a company immediately before the date of the coming into operation of this Act from continuing to act as secretary of that company for a period of twelve months after the date of the coming into operation of this Act.

The secretary or secretaries shall be appointed by the directors and at least one of those secretaries shall be present at the registered office of the company by himself or his agent or clerk on the days and at the hours during which the registered office is to be accessible to the public.

Anything required or authorized to be done by or in relation to the secretary may, if the office is vacant or for any other reason the secretary is not capable of acting, be done by or in relation to any assistant or deputy secretary or, if there is no assistant or deputy secretary capable of acting, by or in relation to any officer of the company authorized generally or specially in that behalf by the directors.

A provision requiring or authorizing a thing to be done by or in relation to a director and the secretary shall not be satisfied by its being done by or in relation to the same person acting both as director and as, or in place of, the secretary.