PART I
PRELIMINARY
Short title and commencement
1. This Act may be cited as the Moneylenders Act 2008 and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint.
Interpretation
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—
“Authority” means the Monetary Authority of Singapore established under section 3 of the Monetary Authority of Singapore Act (Cap. 186);
“body corporate” includes a limited liability partnership;
“business name”, in relation to a moneylender, means the name under which the moneylender is authorised by a licence to carry on the business of moneylending;
“business trust” has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Business Trusts Act (Cap. 31A);
“company” has the same meaning as in section 4(1) of the Companies Act (Cap. 50);
“corporation” has the same meaning as in section 4(1) of the Companies Act;
“director” has the same meaning as in section 4(1) of the Companies Act;
“excluded moneylender” means—
- (a) any body corporate, incorporated or empowered by an Act of Parliament to lend money in accordance with that Act;
- (b) any person licensed, approved, registered or otherwise regulated by the Authority under any other written law, to the extent that such person is permitted or authorised to lend money or is not prohibited from lending money under that other written law;
