Companies Act 1967 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 12 · General
394. Production and inspection of books or papers where offence suspected
Official textFrom Singapore Statutes Online, unchanged
If, on an application made to a judge of the Court in chambers by or on behalf of the Minister, there is shown to be reasonable cause to believe that any person has, while an officer of a company, committed an offence in connection with the management of the company’s affairs and that evidence of the commission of the offence is to be found in any books or papers of or under the control of the company, an order may be made —
authorising any person named therein to inspect such books or papers or any of them for the purpose of investigating and obtaining evidence of the offence; or
requiring the secretary or such other officer as is named in the order to produce such books or papers or any of them to a person named in the order at a place so named.
No appeal lies against any order or decision of a judge on or in relation to an application under this section.
Terms defined in s 4
books
Defined · s 4“books” includes any account, deed, writing or document and any other record of information, however compiled, recorded or stored, whether in written or printed form or on microfilm or by electronic process or otherwise;
company
Defined · s 4“company” means a company incorporated under this Act or under any corresponding previous written law;
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;