Singapore legislation

Regulation 5

of Variable Capital Companies (Transfer of Registration) Regulations 2020

Regulation 5

Certification of documents under section 134(2)(b)(i) of Act

Subregulation 1

For the purposes of section 134(2)(b)(i) of the Act, a copy of a charter, statute, constitution or memorandum or articles or other instrument constituting or defining a foreign corporate entity’s constitution (if any), in its place of incorporation, is certified if, within the period of 4 months immediately preceding the day on which the copy is lodged with the Registrar, the copy was certified to be a true copy —

(a)

by an official holding or purporting to hold an office corresponding to that of the Registrar in the foreign corporate entity’s place of incorporation;

(b)

by a notary public;

(c)

by a director or secretary of the foreign corporate entity by statutory declaration; or

(d)

by the registered qualified individual who lodges the information and documents mentioned in section 134(2)(b) of the Act for the purpose of registering the foreign corporate entity as a VCC under the Act.

Subregulation 2

The Registrar may, in a particular case, extend the period mentioned in paragraph (1).