The Singapore Companies Act requires all Companies in Singapore to appoint a company secretary within 6 months of incorporation. The Corporate Secretary must be a Singapore Citizen/Permanent Resident or a Singapore Employment Pass Holder/Singapore Dependent Pass Holder.

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Company Secretary duties include maintaining the company’s statutory register, preparing AGM documents and filing the Annual Return. The company secretary needs to ensure all the decision and changes of business are reported to ACRA accordingly.

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It is also mandatory that a company have at least one director, who must be a Singapore Citizen/Permanent Resident or a Singapore Employment Pass Holder/Singapore Dependent Pass Holder. If you do not meet the local director requirement, you may need to consider the following option:

• If you are also planning to relocate to Singapore, you can act as the local director. However, this will be subject to the approval of your EntrePass application from the Ministry of Manpower ("MOM")

• You can also choose to appoint someone you know or a local employee to act as your company local director

• Engage us for the nominee director service. We will walk through the process with you and inform you on the steps and documents required

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In the event if you use our nominee director service, we require the company to also engage us for accounting and tax compliance services. Our nominee director service is a non-executive position and you would need to appoint a secondary director who can be a non-local or a foreigner. He/she is responsible for making decisions for the Company, such as authorising the opening of a bank account.

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Sign us now to ensure your paperwork is in order and we will be able to assist you with the compliance of the above statutory requirement.