Companies Act 1967 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 12 · General
397. Translations of instruments, etc.
Last amended by an amending law of 2014.
Official textFrom Singapore Statutes Online, unchanged
Where under this Act a corporation is required to lodge with the Registrar any instrument, certificate, contract or document or a certified copy thereof and the same is not written in the English language, the corporation must lodge at the same time with the Registrar a certified translation thereof in the English language.
Where under this Act a corporation is required to make available for public inspection any instrument, certificate, contract or document and the same is not written in the English language, the corporation must keep at its registered office in Singapore a certified translation thereof in the English language.
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;
Where any accounts, financial statements, minute books or other records of a corporation required by this Act to be kept are not kept in the English language, the directors of the corporation must cause a true translation of such accounts, financial statements, minute books and other records to be made from time to time at intervals of not more than 7 days and must cause such translations to be kept with the original accounts, financial statements, minute books and other records for so long as the original accounts, financial statements, minute books and other records are required by this Act to be kept.
accounts
“accounts” means profit and loss accounts and balance sheets and includes notes (other than auditors’ reports or directors’ reports) attached or intended to be read with any of those profit and loss accounts or balance sheets;
Terms defined in this Act
accounts
Defined · s 4“accounts” means profit and loss accounts and balance sheets and includes notes (other than auditors’ reports or directors’ reports) attached or intended to be read with any of those profit and loss accounts or balance sheets;
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;
certified
Defined · s 4“certified”, in relation to a copy of a document, means certified in the prescribed manner to be a true copy of the document and, in relation to a translation of a document, means certified in the prescribed manner to be a correct translation of the document into the English language;
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;
document
Defined · s 4“document” includes summons, order and other legal process, and notice and register;
financial statements
Defined · s 209A“financial statements” means the financial statements of a company required to be prepared by the Accounting Standards;
registered
Defined · s 4“registered” means registered under this Act or any corresponding previous enactment;
Registrar
Defined · s 4“Registrar” means the Registrar of Companies appointed under this Act and includes any Deputy or Assistant Registrar of Companies;