Companies Act 1967 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 9 · Investigations
229. Interpretation
Official textFrom Singapore Statutes Online, unchanged
In this Part, unless the contrary intention appears —“company” includes a foreign company which is a declared company;“declared company” means a company or foreign company which the Minister has by order declared to be a company to which this Part applies;“officer or agent”, in relation to a corporation, includes —
company
“company” means a company incorporated under this Act or under any corresponding previous written law;
a director, banker, solicitor or auditor of the corporation;
director
“director” includes any person occupying the position of director of a corporation by whatever name called and includes a person in accordance with whose directions or instructions the directors or the majority of the directors of a corporation are accustomed to act and an alternate or substitute director;
a person who at any time —
has been a person referred to in paragraph (a); or
has been otherwise employed or appointed by the corporation;
corporation
“corporation” means any body corporate formed or incorporated or existing in Singapore or outside Singapore and includes any foreign company but does not include —(a)any body corporate that is incorporated in Singapore and is by notification of the Minister in the Gazette declared to be a public authority or an instrumentality or agency of the Government or to be a body corporate which is not incorporated for commercial purposes;(b)any corporation sole;(c)any cooperative society;(d)any registered trade union; (da)any platform work association registered under the Platform Workers Act 2024; or(e)any limited liability partnership;
a person who —
has in the person’s possession any property of the corporation;
is indebted to the corporation; or
is capable of giving information concerning the promotion, formation, trading, dealings, affairs or property of the corporation; and
where there are reasonable grounds for suspecting or believing that a person is a person mentioned in paragraph (c) — that person.
“company” includes a foreign company which is a declared company;
foreign company
“foreign company” means —(a)a company, corporation, society, association or other body incorporated outside Singapore; or(b)an unincorporated society, association or other body which under the law of its place of origin may sue or be sued, or hold property in the name of the secretary or other officer of the body or association duly appointed for that purpose and which does not have its head office or principal place of business in Singapore;
“declared company” means a company or foreign company which the Minister has by order declared to be a company to which this Part applies;
“officer or agent”, in relation to a corporation, includes —
officer
“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;
a director, banker, solicitor or auditor of the corporation;
a person who at any time —
has been a person referred to in paragraph (a); or
has been otherwise employed or appointed by the corporation;
a person who —
has in the person’s possession any property of the corporation;
is indebted to the corporation; or
is capable of giving information concerning the promotion, formation, trading, dealings, affairs or property of the corporation; and
where there are reasonable grounds for suspecting or believing that a person is a person mentioned in paragraph (c) — that person.
Terms defined in s 4
company
Defined · s 4“company” means a company incorporated under this Act or under any corresponding previous written law;
corporation
Defined · s 4“corporation” means any body corporate formed or incorporated or existing in Singapore or outside Singapore and includes any foreign company but does not include —(a)any body corporate that is incorporated in Singapore and is by notification of the Minister in the Gazette declared to be a public authority or an instrumentality or agency of the Government or to be a body corporate which is not incorporated for commercial purposes;(b)any corporation sole;(c)any cooperative society;(d)any registered trade union; (da)any platform work association registered under the Platform Workers Act 2024; or(e)any limited liability partnership;
director
Defined · s 4“director” includes any person occupying the position of director of a corporation by whatever name called and includes a person in accordance with whose directions or instructions the directors or the majority of the directors of a corporation are accustomed to act and an alternate or substitute director;
foreign company
Defined · s 4“foreign company” means —(a)a company, corporation, society, association or other body incorporated outside Singapore; or(b)an unincorporated society, association or other body which under the law of its place of origin may sue or be sued, or hold property in the name of the secretary or other officer of the body or association duly appointed for that purpose and which does not have its head office or principal place of business in Singapore;
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;
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
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