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Companies Act 1967 s 88

Companies Act 1967 s 88

s 88 Company to keep register of substantial shareholders

88.—(1) A company must keep a register in which it must immediately enter —(a) in alphabetical order the names of persons from whom it has received a notice under section 82; and (b) against each name so entered, the information given in the notice and, where it receives a notice under section 83 or 84, the information given in that notice. (2) The register must be kept at the registered office of the company, or, if the company does not have a registered office, at the principal place of business of the company in Singapore and must be open for inspection by a member of the company without charge and by any other person on payment for each inspection of a sum of $2 or such lesser sum as the company requires. (3) A person may request the company to furnish the person with a copy of the register or any part of the register on payment in advance of a sum of $1 or such lesser sum as the company requires for every page or part thereof required to be copied and the company must send the copy to that person, within 14 days or such longer period as the Registrar thinks fit, after the day on which the request is received by the company. (4) The Registrar may at any time in writing require the company to furnish the Registrar with a copy of the register or any part of the register and the company must furnish the copy within 7 days after the day on which the requirement is received by the company. (5) If default is made in complying with this section, the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000 and in the case of a continuing offence to a further fine of $500 for every day during which the offence continues after conviction. (6) A company is not, by reason of anything done under this Division —(a) to be taken for any purpose to have notice of; or (b) to be put upon inquiry as to, a right of a person to or in relation to a share in the company.

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