How can you apply?

The first step is to perform a search via BizFile before submitting your application to ensure if the company name you have shortlisted is available.

If you need detailed information regarding the selection of company name, please click here.

If a foreign corporate entity needs to apply for a transfer of registration, it must duly complete the “Application for Transfer of Registration under Section 358(1)” form in hard copy and then email the filled and completed application form along with all the required documentation to [email protected]. You could download the application form from here (PDF, 492KB).

ACRA assists you and uploads the information submitted in this form to BizFile so that this application can be processed as an application via BizFile. Accordingly, the laws which are applicable to a lodgement via BizFile and the other terms and conditions of BizFile apply.

You would need the following information to duly fill up the form:

• The foreign corporate entity’s name in its place of incorporation and the correct date of registration in its place of incorporation
• Place of foreign corporate entity’s incorporation
• Foreign corporate entity’s registered official address in its place of incorporation
• Foreign corporate entity’s date of last financial year end
• Proposed corporate entity’s planned date of first financial year end post the transfer of registration
• Proposed corporate entity’s Financial Year Period
• Foreign corporate entity’s registered official address in Singapore
• Complete details of the proposed company officers, all the directors, and the shareholders
• Details of the share capital
• Details of the share capital

You are required to submit the following supporting documents along with your application form:

• A certified copy of the company’s charter, statute, constitution or the memorandum or articles or any other instrument that constitutes or defines its constitution (if any), in its place of incorporation
• The constitution by which the foreign corporate entity plans to be registered in Singapore
• A certified copy of the certificate of the foreign corporate entity’s incorporation in its place of incorporation; or a document of similar effect
• If the application is filed by any corporate firm or a service provider, a declaration is needed with a title, “Declaration (Corporate Service Provider)” (in the application form) by the corporate firm or service provider
• If the application is filed by the proposed director or secretary, a declaration is needed with a title, “Declaration (Secretary)” (in the application form) by every proposed secretary of the company (if applicable)
• If the application is filed by a proposed director or secretary, a declaration is needed with the title, “Declaration (Director)” (in the application form) by every proposed director of the company
• Declaration should be titled, “Declaration (Lodger)” (in the application form) by the lodger

Declaration should be in writing signed by all the directors or equivalent individuals of the foreign corporate entity: 2017: That the foreign corporate entity is a body corporate and it meets all the minimum requirements which are mentioned in regulation 7(1)(a) and (e) to (l) of the Companies (Transfer of Registration) Regulations 2017.

2017:either (a) They have formed the opinion that the foreign corporate entity meets all the minimum requirements which are mentioned in regulation 7(1)(b), (c) and (d) of the Companies (Transfer of Registration) Regulations 2017; or (b) The foreign corporate entity satisfies the regulation 7(5) in that it intends to make an application to court under section 210(1), 211B(1), 211C(1), 211I(1) or 227B of the Companies Act, after the registration as a company under the Companies Act.