Singapore legislation
Clause 25
Clause 25
Chairman, secretary and treasurer of committee
(1)
The members of a committee shall, at the first meeting of the committee after they assume office as such members, appoint a chairman, secretary and treasurer of the committee.
(2)
A person —
shall not be appointed to an office referred to in subsection (1) unless he is a member of the committee; and
may be appointed to one or more of those offices.
(3)
A person appointed to an office referred to in subsection (1) shall hold office until —
he ceases to be a member of the committee;
the receipt by the body corporate from him of a notice in writing of his resignation from that office; or
another person is appointed by the committee to hold that office,whichever first happens.
(4)
A person shall not exercise or perform any of the powers, duties or functions of the body corporate or the treasurer of the body corporate, being powers, duties or functions relating to the receipt or expenditure of, or accounting for, moneys, or the keeping of the books of account, of the body corporate, unless he is —
a member of the body corporate or of the committee and is the treasurer of the body corporate or of the committee;
a managing agent who is empowered to exercise or perform that power, authority, duty or function; or
a person with whom the treasurer of the body corporate is required by an order of the committee to exercise or perform jointly that power, duty or function, and who is enabling the treasurer to comply with the order.
(5)
The treasurer of a body corporate may delegate the exercise or performance of any of his powers (other than this power of delegation), duties or functions as treasurer, the delegation of which is specifically approved by the committee of the body corporate, to another member of the committee so approved, subject to such limitations as to time or otherwise as are so approved and, while a delegate is acting in accordance with the terms of a delegation under this subsection, he shall be deemed to be the treasurer of the body corporate.
(6)
The committee of a body corporate may, by a notice in writing served on the treasurer of the body corporate, order that he shall not exercise or perform any of his powers, duties or functions that are specified in the notice, unless he does so jointly with another person so specified.
(7)
Any person who contravenes subsection (4) or fails to comply with the notice of a committee issued pursuant to subsection (6) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000.