Section 79 — Application and interpretation of Division

(1)This section has effect for the purposes of this Division but does not affect the operation of any other provision of this Act.

(2)A reference to a company is a reference —

(a)[Deleted by Act 2 of 2009]

(b)to a body corporate, being a body incorporated in Singapore, that is for the time being declared by the Minister, by notification in the Gazette, to be a company for the purposes of this Division; or

(c)to a body, not being a body corporate formed in Singapore, that is for the time being declared by the Minister, by notification in the Gazette, to be a company for the purposes of this Division.[2/2009]

(3)In relation to a company the whole or a portion of the share capital of which consists of stock, an interest of a person in any such stock is deemed to be an interest in an issued share in the company having attached to it the same rights as are attached to that stock.

(4)A reference in the definition of “voting share” in section 4(1) to a body corporate includes a reference to a body referred to in subsection (2)(c).