Singapore legislation
Clause 4
Clause 4
Amendment of section 6
Section 6 of the principal Act is amended by deleting subsection (1) and substituting the following subsections:“(1) Every person who makes an application under section 5 for registration under this Act shall lodge with the Registrar a statement in such medium and in such form as the Registrar may determine containing the following particulars:
the business name;
the general nature of the business; (c)the principal place of business and any other place where the business is carried on;
the name, identification (if any), nationality and the usual place of residence of every person responsible for the management of the business;
where the business is to be carried on by a firm, the name, identification (if any), nationality and the usual place of residence of every partner and, where a partner is a corporation, the corporate name, registration number and registered office of the corporation;
where the business is to be carried on by an individual, the name, identification (if any), nationality and the usual place of residence of that individual;
where the business is to be carried on by a corporation, its corporate name, registration number and registered office; and
the date or proposed date of commencement of business.(1A) The Registrar may, in any particular case where he thinks fit, require the statement referred to in subsection (1) to be verified by an approved company auditor, a solicitor, a notary public or a practising member of the Singapore Association of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, or affirmed by a statutory declaration made by the person who signed the statement.(1B) In this section —“approved company auditor” and “solicitor” have the same meanings as in the Companies Act (Cap. 50);“identification”, in the case of any person issued with an identity card, means the number of the identity card and, in the case of a person not issued with an identity card, the particulars of the passport or such other similar evidence of identification as is available.”.