Singapore legislation

Section 173G

of Companies Act 1967

Section 173G

Transitional provision on keeping of contact address and residential address of director, chief executive officer or secretary

Amended byAct 24 of 2025 wef 06/05/2026Act 24 of 2025 wef 06/05/2026Act 24 of 2025 wef 06/05/2026Act 21 of 2024 wef 09/12/2024

(1)

Where, immediately before the commencement date, there is an alternate address of a director, chief executive officer or secretary entered in the register of directors, register of chief executive officers or register of secretaries, respectively, of any company, the Registrar must, as from that date, cause —

(a)

the alternate address to be kept as the contact address of the director, chief executive officer or secretary in that register, instead of as the alternate address of that director, chief executive officer or secretary, until notice of a change in the individual’s contact address is lodged under any ACRA administered Act on or after that date; and

(b)

that contact address to be made available for public access under section 12(2)(c) as the address of that director, chief executive officer or secretary.

Amended byAct 24 of 2025 wef 06/05/2026

(2)

Where, immediately before the commencement date —

(a)

there is no alternate address of a director, chief executive officer or secretary entered in the register of directors, register of chief executive officers or register of secretaries (as the case may be) of a company kept by the Registrar under section 173(1)(a), (b) or (c), respectively; and

(b)

the residential address of the director, chief executive officer or secretary is entered in the register of directors, register of chief executive officers or register of secretaries (as the case may be) of the company,the Registrar must, as from the commencement date, cause —

(c)

the residential address to be kept as the contact address of that director, chief executive officer or secretary in that register until notice of a change in the individual’s contact address is lodged under any ACRA administered Act on or after that date, in addition to being kept as the residential address of that director, chief executive officer or secretary; and

(d)

the contact address to be made available for public access under section 12(2)(c) as the address of that director, chief executive officer or secretary.

Amended byAct 24 of 2025 wef 06/05/2026

(3)

Where —

(a)

before the commencement date, the residential address of a director, chief executive officer or secretary of a company (called in this subsection the individual) has been entered in the register of directors, register of chief executive officers or register of secretaries, of the company; and

(b)

on the commencement date, those registers do not show that the individual holds any of the positions mentioned in paragraph (a) in the same company,the Registrar must, as from the commencement date, cause the individual’s residential address to be excluded from public access to that register of that company under section 12(2)(c).

Amended byAct 24 of 2025 wef 06/05/2026

(4)

Subsection (5) applies to a notice or information required to be furnished or given under section 173A or 173B (as the case may be) relating to an appointment or change in the appointment of a director, chief executive officer or secretary of a company which occurred before the commencement date.

(5)

Where the notice or information mentioned in subsection (4) is furnished or given on or after the commencement date, the notice or information must provide the information required under section 173 as in force when the notice or information is furnished or given, despite the appointment or the change in the appointment having occurred before the commencement date.

(6)

In this section, “commencement date” means the date of commencement of section 40 of the ACRA (Registry and Regulatory Enhancements) Act 2024.

Amended byAct 21 of 2024 wef 09/12/2024