Singapore legislation
Regulation 7
of Securities and Futures (Offers of Investments) (Collective Investment Schemes) Regulations 2005
Regulation 7
Operational requirements for approved trustees
Subregulation 1
An approved trustee shall, in respect of a collective investment scheme for which it acts as trustee —
where the approved trustee becomes aware that the manager for the scheme has contravened any legal or regulatory requirement applicable to the manager in relation to the scheme, inform the Authority of the contravention no later than 3 business days after the approved trustee becomes aware of the contravention;
take into custody or control all the property of the scheme and hold the property on trust for the participants;
ensure that all the property of the scheme is properly accounted for;
ensure that the property of the scheme is kept distinct from its own property and the property of its other clients;
keep and maintain, or cause to be kept and maintained, a register of the participants in the scheme;
make the register available for inspection during its business hours, free of charge, to the manager for the scheme or any participant in the scheme; and
where that register is not in the language of the prospectus, make available for inspection during its business hours an accurate translation of the register in the language of the prospectus, free of charge, to the manager for the scheme or any participant in the scheme, unless the manager or the participant, as the case may be, has consented to the register being made available to him for inspection in a language other than the language of the prospectus.
Subregulation 2
The register referred to in paragraph (1)(e) shall contain, in respect of each participant or person who has ceased to be a participant, in the scheme —
his name and address;
the extent of his holding;
the date on which his name was entered in the register as a participant; and
if applicable, the date on which he ceases or ceased to be a participant.
Subregulation 3
Any person who contravenes paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $50,000.
Subregulation 4
Section 333(1) of the Act shall not apply to any offence under paragraph (3).