Companies Act 1967 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 11 · Various Types of Companies, Etc.
370A. Transitional provision for contact address of director or authorised representative of foreign company
Last amended by an amending law of 2024.
Official textFrom Singapore Statutes Online, unchanged
Where a director or authorised representative of a foreign company (who is an individual) maintained an alternate address with the Registrar under this Act immediately before the commencement date, that address is taken to be the individual’s contact address for the purposes of this Act, until notice of a change in the individual’s contact address is lodged under any ACRA administered Act on or after that date.
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;
Where a director or authorised representative of a foreign company (who is an individual) did not maintain an alternate address with the Registrar under this Act immediately before the commencement date, the individual’s residential address is taken to be the individual’s contact address for the purposes of this Act, until notice of a change in the individual’s contact address is lodged under any ACRA administered Act on or after that date.
authorised representative
“authorised representative”, in relation to a foreign company, means —(a)in the case of a foreign company registered before 3 January 2016 — the agent of the foreign company as defined by this section in force immediately before that date; and(b)in the case of a foreign company registered on or after 3 January 2016 — the person named in a notice lodged under section 368(1)(e);
An individual’s contact address mentioned in subsection (1) or (2) is deemed, for the purposes of section 372(1)(ca), to be a particular lodged with the Registrar under section 368(1).
contact address
“contact address”, in relation to an individual, means an address that meets all of the following conditions:(a)it is a physical address at which the individual can be physically found or contacted by post;(b)it is not a post office box number;(c)it is located in the same jurisdiction as the individual’s residential address;
Subsection (5) applies to a notice or information required to be lodged or given under section 368(1)(d) or (e), 368A(1), (2)(a), (3) or (4) or 370(4) (as the case may be), relating to a director or authorised representative of a foreign company appointed before the commencement date.
lodged
“lodged” means lodged under this Act or any corresponding previous written law;
Where the notice or information mentioned in subsection (4) is lodged or given on or after the commencement date, the notice or information must provide the information required under section 368 as in force when the notice or information is lodged or given, despite the director or authorised representative having been appointed before the commencement date.
In this section, “commencement date” means the date of commencement of section 47 of the ACRA (Registry and Regulatory Enhancements) Act 2024.
Terms defined in this Act
ACRA administered Act
Defined · s 4“ACRA administered Act” means the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority Act 2004 or any of the written laws specified in the Second Schedule to that Act;
authorised representative
Defined · s 366“authorised representative”, in relation to a foreign company, means —(a)in the case of a foreign company registered before 3 January 2016 — the agent of the foreign company as defined by this section in force immediately before that date; and(b)in the case of a foreign company registered on or after 3 January 2016 — the person named in a notice lodged under section 368(1)(e);
contact address
Defined · s 4“contact address”, in relation to an individual, means an address that meets all of the following conditions:(a)it is a physical address at which the individual can be physically found or contacted by post;(b)it is not a post office box number;(c)it is located in the same jurisdiction as the individual’s residential address;
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;
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;
residential address
Defined · s 4“residential address” means —(a)in the case of a person registered under the National Registration Act 1965 — the place of residence of that person as registered under that Act; or(b)in the case of a person not registered under the National Registration Act 1965 — the usual residential address of that person;
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