PART II | Requirement to use electronic transaction system |
3.—(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) or as the Registrar otherwise requires or permits, any transaction with the Registrar under the Act must be carried out using the electronic transaction system on the electronic transaction form provided for that purpose.| (2) If a transaction with the Registrar referred to in paragraph (1) cannot be carried out using the electronic transaction system, the person seeking to carry out the transaction must carry out the transaction with the Registrar in such other form and manner as the Registrar may determine. |
(3) The Registrar may refuse to process a transaction with the Registrar if the person seeking to carry out the transaction —| (a) | does not comply with paragraph (1) or (2); | | (b) | does not comply with regulation 4 or 4A; | | (c) | being required to complete an electronic transaction form, or other form, provided by the Registrar for that purpose, fails to properly complete the form in accordance with the instructions contained in the form; | | (d) | being required to attach any document to, or provide any information required in, an electronic transaction form, or other form, provided by the Registrar for that purpose, fails to attach the document or provide the information, as the case may be; or | | (e) | fails to pay the fee prescribed for the transaction. |
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| (4) To avoid doubt, a reference to a refusal to process a transaction with the Registrar in paragraph (3) includes, where the transaction relates to the filing or lodging of a document with the Registrar, a refusal to accept the document for filing or lodgment. [S 842/2015 wef 03/01/2016] |
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| 4. The Registrar may require the production of the identity card or the passport, or such other identification documents as may be acceptable to the Registrar, for the verification of the identity of any person who carries out any transaction with the Registrar or whose particulars are to be registered under the Act. [S 842/2015 wef 03/01/2016] |
4A. Where an electronic transaction form is required to be endorsed by more than one person —| (a) | such endorsements must be made —| (i) | if the endorsement is made in respect of registration, within 60 days after the date on which the Registrar informs the applicant that the electronic transaction form is required to be endorsed; or | | (ii) | if the endorsement is made in respect of any other matter, within 14 days after the date on which the electronic transaction form is first submitted; and |
| | (b) | payment of the prescribed fee for the transaction with the Registrar to which the electronic transaction form relates must be made by the last person endorsing the electronic transaction. [S 842/2015 wef 03/01/2016] |
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| Time for lodging documents |
5. Where a document is required under the Act or these Regulations to be lodged with the Registrar but a period of time within which that document is to be lodged is not prescribed, that document shall be lodged —| (a) | within 30 days; or | | (b) | in the case of a document required to be lodged by a foreign person, within such further period as the Registrar may in special circumstances allow, |
| after the occurrence of the event to which the document relates. |
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| 6. [Deleted by S 282/2015 wef 15/05/2015] |
7.—(1) The fees specified in the First Schedule are payable to the Registrar.| (2) Where any person fails to comply with the time delimited by the Act for the filing or lodgment of an annual declaration, the penalty specified in Part 1 of the Second Schedule for late filing or lodgment must be paid in addition to the prescribed fee for the filing or lodgment of the document. |
| (3) Where any person fails to comply with the time delimited by the Act for the filing or lodgment of a document other than an annual declaration, the penalty specified in Part 2 of the Second Schedule for late filing or lodgment must be paid in addition to the prescribed fee for the filing or lodgment of the document. |
| (4) The Registrar may for any reason waive, refund or remit, whether wholly or in part, any fee specified in the First Schedule or any penalty specified in the Second Schedule. |
| (5) Payment of fees and penalties under these Regulations must be made in such manner as directed by the Registrar. |
(6) Despite paragraph (4), no fee paid is refundable in respect of —| (a) | any registration ceased or cancelled under the provisions of the Act; or | | (b) | the withdrawal of any application or appeal. [S 842/2015 wef 03/01/2016] |
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