Companies Act 1967 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5 · Management and Administration
192. Inspection and closing of register
Last amended by an amending law of 2014.
Official textFrom Singapore Statutes Online, unchanged
A public company may close the register of members or any class of members for one or more periods not exceeding 30 days in the aggregate in any calendar year.
The register and index must be open to the inspection of any member without charge and of any other person on payment for each inspection of $1 or such less sum as the public company requires.
register
“register of controllers” or “register” —(a)in relation to a company to which this Part applies — means the register that the company is required to keep of its registrable controllers under section 386AF(1), (1A), (2) or (3); and(b)in relation to a foreign company to which this Part applies — means the register that the foreign company is required to keep of its registrable controllers under section 386AF(4), (4A), (5) or (6);
Any member or other person may request the public company to furnish that member or other person with a copy of the register, or of any part thereof, but only so far as it relates to names, addresses, number of shares held and amounts paid on shares, on payment in advance of $1 or such less sum as the company requires for every page thereof required to be copied and the company must cause any copy so requested by any person to be sent to that person within a period of 21 days or within such further period as the Registrar considers reasonable in the circumstances commencing on the day next after the day on which the request is received by the company.
company
“company” means a company incorporated under this Act or under any corresponding previous written law;
If any copy so requested is not sent within the period prescribed by subsection (3), the public company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $400 and also to a default penalty.
Terms defined in this Act
charge
Defined · s 4“charge” includes a mortgage and any agreement to give or execute a charge or mortgage whether upon demand or otherwise;
company
Defined · s 4“company” means a company incorporated under this Act or under any corresponding previous written law;
default penalty
Defined · s 4“default penalty” means a default penalty within the meaning of section 408;
officer
Defined · s 4“officer”, in relation to a corporation, includes —(a)any director or secretary of the corporation or a person employed in an executive capacity by the corporation;(b)a receiver and manager of any part of the undertaking of the corporation appointed under a power contained in any instrument; and(c)any liquidator of a company appointed in a voluntary winding up,but does not include —(d)any receiver who is not also a manager;(e)any receiver and manager appointed by the Court;(f)any liquidator appointed by the Court or by the creditors; or(g)a judicial manager appointed under Part 7 of the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018;
register
Defined · s 386AB“register of controllers” or “register” —(a)in relation to a company to which this Part applies — means the register that the company is required to keep of its registrable controllers under section 386AF(1), (1A), (2) or (3); and(b)in relation to a foreign company to which this Part applies — means the register that the foreign company is required to keep of its registrable controllers under section 386AF(4), (4A), (5) or (6);
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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Financial Statements and Audit
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Arrangements, Reconstructions and Amalgamations
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Investigations
Part 10
Dissolution
Part 10A
Transfer of Registration
Part 11
Various Types of Companies, Etc.
Part 11A
Register of Controllers, Nominee Directors and Nominee Shareholders of Companies
Part 12