Singapore legislation

Regulation 8

of Business Names Registration Regulations 2015

Regulation 8

Registration by nominee or trustee

For the purposes of section 7(1) of the Act, a person who or which carries on a business wholly or mainly as nominee or trustee of or for another person, for the general purposes of the business in Singapore, must provide the following particulars:

(a)

if the nominee or trustee is a corporation —

(i)

the date of appointment of the nominee or trustee;

(ii)

the name, address and unique identity number (if any) of the nominee or trustee; and

(iii)

whether the beneficiary is an individual, a corporation, class of children or class of other persons, the description of class (if applicable);

(b)

if the nominee or trustee is an individual —

(i)

the date of appointment of the nominee or trustee;

(ii)

the name, residential address, contact address, nationality, date of birth, identification type and number of the nominee or trustee;

(iii)

the contact information and email address of the nominee or trustee; and

(iv)

whether the beneficiary is an individual, a corporation, class of children or class of other persons;

(c)

where the beneficiary is an individual, the name, address and nationality;

(d)

where the beneficiary is a corporation, the name of the corporation, address and nature of business of the corporation;

(e)

where the beneficiary is a class of children or a class of other persons, a description of the class.

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