Singapore legislation

Clause 8

of Securities and Futures (Amendment) Bill

Clause 8

Amendment of section 12

Section 12 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 9 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.”.

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