Singapore legislation

Clause 24

of Securities and Futures (Amendment) Bill

Clause 24

Amendment of section 55

Section 55 of the principal Act is amended by deleting subsection (4) and substituting the following subsection:“(4) The Authority may revoke an approval granted to a corporation under section 51 on any ground referred to in subsection (1) on the basis of any of the following circumstances without giving the corporation an opportunity to be heard:

(a)

the corporation is in the course of being wound up or otherwise dissolved, whether in Singapore or elsewhere;

(b)

a receiver, a receiver and manager or an equivalent person has been appointed, whether in Singapore or elsewhere, in relation to or in respect of any property of the corporation;

(c)

the corporation has been convicted, whether in Singapore or elsewhere, of an offence involving fraud or dishonesty or the conviction for which involved a finding that it had acted fraudulently or dishonestly.”.