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Act of Parliament

Companies Act 1967

Setting up and running companies, shares, debentures, financial statements and audit, investigations, dissolution and company registers

In plain English

Not legal advice

This Act deals with companies. The registrar must keep the home addresses of directors, chief executive officers and secretaries from public access. If directors exceed their powers in a deal with a director or someone connected to a director, the company may undo it. The director or connected person, and any director who approved the deal, must give the company any gain and cover any loss. A company registered under the Charities Act that is convicted of an offence under it may be wound up by the court.

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Part 1

Preliminary

Official textFrom Singapore Statutes Online, unchanged

s 1Short title

This Act is the Companies Act 1967.

s 2Division into Parts

This Act is divided into Parts and Divisions as follows:Part 1sections 1‑7A…Preliminary sections 1‑7A.Part 2sections 8‑15...Administration of this Act sections 8‑8H, 10, 12‑15.Part 3Constitution of Companiessections 17‑42A...Division 1 — Incorporation sections 17‑22. Division 2 — Powers sections 23‑41C, 42A.Part 4Shares, Debentures and Charges sections 59‑141...Division 2 — Restrictions on allotment and commencement of businesssections 59‑62. ...Division 3 — Sharessections 62A‑68, 70‑78. ...Division 3A — Reduction of share capitalsections 78A‑78K. ...Division 4 — Substantial shareholdingssections 79‑91. ...Division 5 — Debentures sections 93‑96, 100. ...Division 7 — Title and transfers sections 121‑128, 129‑130AE. ...Division 8 — Registration of charges sections 131‑141.Part 5Management and Administration sections 142‑198......Division 1 — Office and name sections 142‑144.Division 2 — Directors and officers sections 145‑152, 154‑160, 161‑165, 168‑169, 171‑173I. ...Division 3 — Meetings and proceedings sections 174‑189. ...Division 4 — Register of members kept by public companysections 189A‑196. ...Division 4A — Electronic register of members kept by Registrarsections 196A‑196D ...Division 5 — Annual return sections 197‑198.Part 6Financial Statements and Auditsections 199‑209A......Division 1 — Financial statementssections 199, 201‑204.Division 2 — Audit sections 205‑209A.Part 7sections 210‑216B...Arrangements, Reconstructions and Amalgamations sections 210‑211, 212, 215‑216B.Part 9sections 228‑246...Investigations sections 228‑233, 235‑246.Part 10sections 344‑344H...Dissolutionsections 344‑344HPart 10Asections 355‑364A...Transfer of Registrationsections 355‑364A.Part 11Various Types of Companies, etc. sections 365‑386...Division 2 — Foreign Companies sections 365‑373, 375‑384, 386.Part 11Asections 386AA‑386AP...Register of Controllers and Nominee Director of Companiessections 386AA‑386AP.Part 12General sections 387‑411...Division 1 — Enforcement of this Act sections 386A‑399. ...Division 2 — Offences sections 401‑409B. ...Division 3 — Miscellaneous sections 409C‑411.

s 3Repeals

(1)

The written laws mentioned in the First Schedule to the extent to which they are therein expressed to be repealed or amended are repealed or amended accordingly.

(2)

Unless the contrary intention appears in this Act —

(a)

all persons, things and circumstances appointed or created under any of the repealed or amended written laws or existing or continuing under any of such written laws immediately before 29 December 1967 continue under and subject to this Act to have the same status, operation and effect as they respectively would have had if such written laws had not been so repealed or amended; and

(b)

in particular and without limiting paragraph (a), such repeal does not disturb the continuity of status, operation or effect of any Order in Council, order, rule, regulation, scale of fees, appointment, conveyance, mortgage, deed, agreement, resolution, direction, instrument, document, memorandum, articles, incorporation, nomination, affidavit, call, forfeiture, minute, assignment, register, registration, transfer, list, licence, certificate, security, notice, compromise, arrangement, right, priority, liability, duty, obligation, proceeding, matter or thing made, done, effected, given, issued, passed, taken, validated, entered into, executed, lodged, accrued, incurred, existing, pending or acquired under any of such written laws before that date.

(3)

Nothing in this Act affects the Table in any repealed written law corresponding to Table A in the repealed Fourth Schedule in force immediately before 3 January 2016 or any part thereof (either as originally enacted or as altered pursuant to any statutory power) or the corresponding Table in any former written law relating to companies (either as originally enacted or as so altered) so far as the same applies to any company existing on 29 December 1967.

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Part 2

Administration of This Act

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Part 3

Constitution of Companies

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Part 4

Shares, Debentures and Charges

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Part 5

Management and Administration

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Part 6

Financial Statements and Audit

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Part 7

Arrangements, Reconstructions and Amalgamations

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Part 8

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Part 8A

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Part 9

Investigations

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Part 10

Dissolution

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Part 10A

Transfer of Registration

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Part 11

Various Types of Companies, Etc.

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Part 11A

Register of Controllers, Nominee Directors and Nominee Shareholders of Companies

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Part 12

General

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Schedules

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