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Corporate Secretary Services in Singapore
In Singapore, corporate secretarial services play a critical role in maintaining regulatory compliance and ensuring smooth business operations, especially for small to medium-sized private limited companies. These services support core areas such as corporate governance, statutory filings, and administrative duties aligned with the country’s strict regulatory framework.
Under the Singapore Companies Act, every newly incorporated company must appoint a company secretary within 6 months of incorporation.
Engaging qualified corporate secretarial support helps businesses meet statutory obligations, avoid compliance risks, and focus on their core operations with confidence.
3E Accounting provides reliable and professional corporate secretarial services in Singapore, offering qualified company secretaries who handle all statutory and administrative requirements with precision, accuracy, and full regulatory compliance.
#1. Company Secretary Service
A company secretary, provided by company secretary services in Singapore, plays a key role in maintaining the continuous flow of secretarial and administrative tasks for your company. He/She ensures that your company’s day-to-day operations run smoothly and are reported to executives for evaluation or rapid decision-making.
A proper report is an excellent aid to company executives in foreseeing future events and anticipating them in a professional, precise manner. The range of secretarial and administrative tasks is broad and requires keen attention to detail and dedication, as well as credentials in secretarial work. Our highly qualified company secretary will help your company through the following matters:
- Common seal safekeeping
- The Minutes and Register Books maintenance
- Drafting on standard directors’ minutes and resolutions
- Consultancy on secretarial, statutory, compliance, accounting, and tax matters
- The constant monitor of the company’s compliance with relevant legal requirements, especially those under the Companies Act and Income Tax Act
- Preparation of Annual General Meeting minutes
- Submission of Annual Return and XBRL to ACRA
- Other substantial secretarial and administrative tasks
#2. Get Yourself the Right Person as your Corporate Secretary in Singapore
When you engage a qualified service provider that provides you with comprehensive end-to-end services, you should enjoy all the premium services. Yet, we noticed that some service providers are not providing customers with certain essential services, such as unlimited mail scanning, no daily mail receiving notification, no mail forwarding services, resulting in inconvenience to customers when they need to self-collect the mail from the registered office, no fax services support, no registered address services, etc.
The Singapore Companies Act requires every company in Singapore to appoint one or more company secretaries within 6 months of its incorporation. A company secretary must meet specific criteria, including being a natural person with his/her principal or only place of residence in Singapore. Discover the checklist for selecting the right person as your Corporate Secretarial partner in Singapore at 3E Accounting.
#3. Strike Off Company
In some cases, closing your company can be a more cost-effective decision. The company striking off procedure can be as complex as setting up a new one. Thus, our company provides you with the right assistance to navigate the complexity and time-consuming process of striking off your company.
You can engage our company’s striking off service, which is designed primarily to assist you in taking every step of the strike-off procedure with peace of mind. With us, you can focus on more crucial matters while we work hand in hand with the ACRA and other relevant government agencies to legally dissolve your company. Our expertise and experience will help you comply with all ACRA requirements. The entire process takes up to five months.
#4. Liquidation in Singapore
Liquidation is a part of the business process that certain businesses must be prepared to undertake if certain conditions occur. Liquidation has different processes from striking off, even though both share the same criterion: the company ceases to exist.
Liquidation is categorised into 3 types: Members’ Voluntary Liquidation, Creditors’ Voluntary Liquidation, and Court Winding Up. Liquidation will result in the liquidator. Engage for liquidation services if required, to ensure a smooth liquidation process.
#5. Receivership & Judicial Management Services in Singapore
Receivers are typically appointed by the court as a ‘neutral fiduciary’ or recommended by the lender as plaintiff. Specific court language refers to a ‘receiver’ as the hands and eyes of the court. As a result, carrying out any necessary actions to preserve the assets of the receivership estate. Who can become the Judicial Manager? The Judicial Manager nominated must be a public accountant and cannot be an auditor of the company.
#6. Singapore Certificate of Incorporation
In Singapore, the certificate of incorporation is usually issued by the Singapore Registrar of Companies (ACRA) via an electronic notification of incorporation. These e-notifications do not have signatures and will be emailed to the company’s officers and the person responsible for the incorporation filings.
#7. Singapore Customs Registration
If your company is engaged in export, import or trans-shipment activities in Singapore, you are required to register the company with the Singapore Customs as an importer, exporter, common carrier and others (whether by land, air or sea). This central registration number is mandatory for Singapore companies or organisations engaged in trading activities.
#8. Amalgamation Of Companies In Singapore And Its Taxation
Amalgamation is the process whereby two or more companies are combined. Besides share and/or business transfers, private Singapore-incorporated companies looking to restructure should consider an amalgamation under the Companies Act.
#9.Company Search in Singapore
Every entrepreneur should endeavour to conduct a company search in Singapore to assess the suitability of the business before taking the following steps. The information you should keep an eye out for includes the company’s legal background and credit history in particular, because you want to avoid getting stuck with a company that has a bad credit record.
#10.Notarisation, Apostille and Legalisation of Documents in Singapore
Before your official documentation can be accepted for use abroad, it must undergo the notarisation, apostille and legalisation process in Singapore. The notarisation, apostille and legalisation of documents in Singapore are just some of the many services offered here at 3E Accounting. Every country will have its own legalisation requirements to determine the authenticity of documents.
#11.Independent Director Services
The success and future of your business depend on one thing: How well you choose the right services for your business. This guide explains why 3E Accounting’s Independent Director Services is every entrepreneur’s top choice.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Under Section 171 of the Singapore Companies Act, all companies must appoint a natural person who resides in Singapore (citizen, PR, EP or EntrePass holder) within six months of incorporation. The company secretary cannot also be the sole director.
A company secretary handles statutory compliance, maintains registers and minutes, coordinates board and shareholder meetings, and ensures filings such as Annual Returns and AGM documentation are submitted on time. They also advise directors on governance and regulatory updates.
Only if the person holds a valid pass (Employment Pass, EntrePass) and resides in Singapore. Foreign nationals without such residency status cannot serve as company secretaries.
For private companies, formal qualifications aren’t mandatory, but experience is expected. Public companies require the secretary to have at least 3 years’ experience or to be professionally certified (e.g., Chartered Secretary, CPA).
Typical services include maintenance of statutory registers, ACRA filings (director/shareholder changes, annual returns), preparation of meeting materials, AGM coordination, and advisory support on compliance matters.
Yes. A company must document the change via a board resolution and file the updated secretary’s details with ACRA within 14 days via the BizFile+ portal.
Failing to appoint a company secretary or leaving the position vacant for more than six months may result in penalties of up to S$1,000 under the Companies Act.
