Companies Act 1967 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 1 · Preliminary
3. Repeals
Last amended by an amending law of 2014.
Official textFrom Singapore Statutes Online, unchanged
The written laws mentioned in the First Schedule to the extent to which they are therein expressed to be repealed or amended are repealed or amended accordingly.
Unless the contrary intention appears in this Act —
all persons, things and circumstances appointed or created under any of the repealed or amended written laws or existing or continuing under any of such written laws immediately before 29 December 1967 continue under and subject to this Act to have the same status, operation and effect as they respectively would have had if such written laws had not been so repealed or amended; and
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.
Nothing in this Act affects the Table in any repealed written law corresponding to Table A in the repealed Fourth Schedule in force immediately before 3 January 2016 or any part thereof (either as originally enacted or as altered pursuant to any statutory power) or the corresponding Table in any former written law relating to companies (either as originally enacted or as so altered) so far as the same applies to any company existing on 29 December 1967.
company
“company” means a company incorporated under this Act or under any corresponding previous written law;
Terms defined in this Act
company
Defined · s 4“company” means a company incorporated under this Act or under any corresponding previous written law;
document
Defined · s 4“document” includes summons, order and other legal process, and notice and register;
lodged
Defined · s 4“lodged” means lodged under this Act or any corresponding previous written law;
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);
registration
Defined · s 356“registration”, in relation to a foreign corporate entity that has applied to be registered as a company limited by shares under this Part, means registration by the Registrar under section 359(1), and “register” and “registered” are to be construed accordingly.
Part 2
Administration of This Act
Part 3
Constitution of Companies
Part 4
Shares, Debentures and Charges
Part 5
Management and Administration
Part 6
Financial Statements and Audit
Part 7
Arrangements, Reconstructions and Amalgamations
Part 8
Part 8A
Part 9
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