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Rh (2) The registration of a person is not to be taken as evidence that the person so registered owns any property or right or interest in any property held on account of, or used for the purposes of, the business.

Authorised representative

11.—(1) Where an individual proprietor, all the partners of a firm or all the officers of a foreign company, as the case may be, does not or do not reside in Singapore (either at or after the time the individual proprietor, firm or foreign company was registered), the individual proprietor, firm or foreign company must appoint, within the time specified in subsection (3), (4) or (11), whichever is applicable, at least one authorised representative who must meet the criteria set out in subsection (2).

(2) The authorised representative must be—
 * (a) a natural person;
 * (b) at least 18 years of age;
 * (c) otherwise of full legal capacity; and
 * (d) ordinarily resident in Singapore.

(3) If at the time of registration the individual proprietor, all the partners of the firm or all the officers of the foreign company, as the case may be, does not or do not reside in Singapore, the authorised representative must be appointed—
 * (a) at the time the individual proprietor, firm or foreign company is registered; or
 * (b) if the individual proprietor, firm or foreign company will carry on business in Singapore on a date after the date of registration, not later than the date on which the individual proprietor, firm or foreign company commences to carry on business in Singapore.

(4) If the individual proprietor, all the partners of the firm or all the officers of the foreign company, as the case may be, ceases or cease to reside in Singapore at any time after registration, the authorised representative must be appointed—