Singapore legislation

Regulation 5

of Securities and Futures (Trading of Derivatives Contracts) Regulations 2019

Regulation 5

Keeping of books and other information

Subregulation 1

Every specified person who is not exempt under regulation 4 must ensure that any book that relates to a specified derivatives contract or to a transaction in a specified derivatives contract is kept until at least 5 years after the last date of the expiry or termination of the specified derivatives contract or transaction to which the book relates.

Subregulation 2

Every specified person who is not exempt under regulation 4 must ensure that any information as may be required by the Authority for the purposes of the Act is kept until at least 5 years after the last date of the expiry or termination of a contract, an agreement or a transaction to which the information relates.

Subregulation 3

A specified person who contravenes paragraph (1) or (2) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $50,000 and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding $5,000 for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues after conviction.

Subregulation 4

Section 333(1) of the Act does not apply to any offence mentioned in paragraph (3).