Payment Services Act 2019 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3 · Payment Systems
55. Interpretation of this Division
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In this Division, unless the context otherwise requires —“business” includes affairs, property, right, obligation and liability;“Court” means the General Division of the High Court;“debenture” has the meaning given by section 4(1) of the Companies Act 1967;“property” includes property, right and power of every description;“Registrar of Companies” means the Registrar of Companies appointed under the Companies Act 1967 and includes any Deputy or Assistant Registrar of Companies appointed under that Act;“transferee” means a person that is carrying on, or that intends to carry on, in Singapore the usual business of an operator or a settlement institution of a designated payment system, to which the whole or any part of a transferor’s business is, is to be or is proposed to be transferred under section 56(1);“transferor” means an operator or a settlement institution of a designated payment system the whole or any part of the business of which is, is to be, or is proposed to be transferred under section 56(1).
operator
“operator”, in relation to a payment system, means a person that operates the payment system;
“business” includes affairs, property, right, obligation and liability;
“Court” means the General Division of the High Court;
“debenture” has the meaning given by section 4(1) of the Companies Act 1967;
“property” includes property, right and power of every description;
“Registrar of Companies” means the Registrar of Companies appointed under the Companies Act 1967 and includes any Deputy or Assistant Registrar of Companies appointed under that Act;
“transferee” means a person that is carrying on, or that intends to carry on, in Singapore the usual business of an operator or a settlement institution of a designated payment system, to which the whole or any part of a transferor’s business is, is to be or is proposed to be transferred under section 56(1);
settlement institution
“settlement institution” means a person that provides facilities for —(a)the participants of a payment system to hold funds; and(b)the settling of transactions between the participants;
“transferor” means an operator or a settlement institution of a designated payment system the whole or any part of the business of which is, is to be, or is proposed to be transferred under section 56(1).
designated payment system
“designated payment system” means a payment system that is designated by the Authority under section 42 to be a designated payment system for the purposes of this Act;