Securities and Futures Act 2001 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 13A · Modification of Act for Purposes of Dual Listing Boards
309F. Interpretation of this Part
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In this Part —
“DLB issuer” or “Dual Listing Board issuer” means an issuer that —
is admitted to a prescribed Dual Listing Board; or
has received approval‑in‑principle, or eligibility‑to‑list, for its admission to a prescribed Dual Listing Board;
“DLB offer” or “Dual Listing Board offer” means an offer of capital markets products which are to be listed on a prescribed Dual Listing Board;
capital markets products
“capital markets products” means any securities, units in a collective investment scheme, derivatives contracts, spot foreign exchange contracts for the purposes of leveraged foreign exchange trading, and such other products as the Authority may prescribe as capital markets products;
“DLB products” or “Dual Listing Board products” means capital markets products listed or to be listed on a prescribed Dual Listing Board;
“Dual Listing Board” means a listing board of SGX‑ST set up for the purpose of listing capital markets products that are also listed or to be listed on an overseas exchange;
overseas exchange
“overseas exchange” means a person operating an organised market outside Singapore that is regulated by a financial services regulatory authority of a country or territory other than Singapore;
“foreign jurisdiction” means a jurisdiction other than Singapore;
“list”, in relation to any capital markets products, means to list those products for quotation;
“OIS offer” or “offer information statement offer” means an offer of capital markets products —
made by a DLB issuer; or
treated under section 239AA as made by a DLB issuer,using an offer information statement;
“overseas exchange” means an exchange or listing board of an exchange operating in a foreign jurisdiction;
“prescribed DLB” or “prescribed Dual Listing Board” means a Dual Listing Board declared by regulations made under section 309G as a prescribed DLB;
“prescribed overseas exchange” means an overseas exchange declared by regulations made under section 309G as a prescribed overseas exchange;
“securities law”, in relation to a foreign jurisdiction, means any legislation, code of practice, standard or listing rules of the jurisdiction pertaining to securities regulation;
securities
“securities” means —(a)shares, units in a business trust or any instrument conferring or representing a legal or beneficial ownership interest in a corporation, partnership or limited liability partnership;(b)debentures; or(c)any other product or class of products as may be prescribed,but does not include —(d)any unit of a collective investment scheme;(e)any bill of exchange;(f)any certificate of deposit issued by a bank or finance company, whether situated in Singapore or elsewhere; or(g)such other product or class of products as may be prescribed;
“SGX‑ST” means the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited.
In this Part, a prescribed overseas exchange is paired with a prescribed DLB, or vice versa, if regulations made under section 309G(1)(c) declare the prescribed DLB as paired with the prescribed overseas exchange for the purposes of the regulations in question.