Companies Act 1967 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 2 · Administration of This Act
12A. Electronic transaction system
Last amended by an amending law of 2014.
Official textFrom Singapore Statutes Online, unchanged
The Registrar may —
Registrar
“Registrar” means the Registrar of Companies appointed under this Act and includes any Deputy or Assistant Registrar of Companies;
require or permit any person to carry out any transaction with the Registrar under this Act; and
issue any approval, certificate, notice, determination or other document pursuant or connected to a transaction mentioned in paragraph (a),using the electronic transaction system established under Part 6A of the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority Act 2004.
If the Registrar is satisfied that a transaction should be treated as having been carried out at some date and time earlier than the date and time which is reflected in the electronic transaction system, the Registrar may cause the electronic transaction system and the registers kept by the Registrar to reflect such earlier date and time.
electronic transaction system
“electronic transaction system” means the electronic transaction system mentioned in section 12A(1);
The Registrar must keep a record whenever the electronic transaction system or the registers are altered under subsection (2).
In this section —
“document” includes any application, form, report, certification, notice, confirmation, declaration, return or other document (whether in electronic form or otherwise) filed or lodged with, or submitted to, the Registrar;
document
“document” includes summons, order and other legal process, and notice and register;
“transaction”, in relation to the Registrar, means —
the filing or lodging of any document with the Registrar, or the submission, production, delivery, furnishing or sending of any document to the Registrar;
any making of any application, submission or request to the Registrar;
any provision of any undertaking or declaration to the Registrar; and
any extraction, retrieval or accessing of any document, record or information maintained by the Registrar.
Terms defined in s 4
Authority
Defined · s 4“Authority” means the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority established under the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority Act 2004;
document
Defined · s 4“document” includes summons, order and other legal process, and notice and register;
electronic transaction system
Defined · s 4“electronic transaction system” means the electronic transaction system mentioned in section 12A(1);
filed
Defined · s 4“filed” means filed under this Act or any corresponding previous written law;
lodged
Defined · s 4“lodged” means lodged under this Act or any corresponding previous written law;
Registrar
Defined · s 4“Registrar” means the Registrar of Companies appointed under this Act and includes any Deputy or Assistant Registrar of Companies;
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