Singapore legislation
Section 386AM
Section 386AM
Power to enforce
(1)
The Registrar or an officer of the Authority may —
require a company or foreign company to which this Part applies to produce its register, its register of nominee directors, its register of nominee shareholders and any other document relating to those registers or the keeping of those registers;
inspect, examine and make copies of the registers and any document so produced; and
make such inquiry as may be necessary to ascertain whether the provisions of this Part are complied with.
(2)
Where any register or documents as are mentioned in subsection (1) are kept in electronic form —
the power of the Registrar or an officer of the Authority in subsection (1)(a) to require the register or any documents to be produced includes the power to require a copy of the register or documents to be made available in legible form and subsection (1)(b) is to accordingly apply in relation to any copy so made available; and
the power of the Registrar or an officer of the Authority under subsection (1)(b) to inspect the register or any documents includes the power to require any person on the premises in question to give the Registrar or the officer of the Authority such assistance as the Registrar or officer may reasonably require to enable the Registrar or officer to inspect and make copies of the register or documents in legible form, and to make records of the information contained in them.
(3)
The powers conferred on the Registrar or an officer of the Authority under subsections (1) and (2) may be exercised by a public agency to enable the public agency to administer or enforce any written law.
(4)
Any person who fails to comply with any requirement imposed under subsection (1) or (2) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $25,000.
(4A)
A person who, in complying with a requirement imposed, or in answering an inquiry made, under subsection (1) or (2), provides any information that is false or misleading in a material particular to the Registrar or an officer of the Authority, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $25,000.
(4B)
In proceedings for an offence under subsection (4A), it is a defence to the charge for the accused to prove, on a balance of probabilities, that the accused took all reasonable steps and exercised all due diligence to ensure that the information provided was not false or misleading.
(5)
This section applies in addition to any right of inspection conferred by section 396A.
(6)
In this section, “public agency” means a public officer, an Organ of State or a ministry or department of the Government, or a public authority established by or under any public Act for a public purpose or a member, an officer or an employee, or any department, thereof.