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Setting up & maintaining ROND & RONS

Check compliance requirements for the Registers of Nominee Directors (ROND) and Nominee Shareholders (RONS).

Last updated 29 January 2026

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What are the ROND and RONS
Who must comply with the requirements
Exempted companies
Identifying nominee directors or shareholders
Setting up your ROND and RONS
What to include in your ROND and RONS
Maintaining your ROND and RONS
Related pages

What are the ROND and RONS

ROND and RONS are registers that contain the particulars of nominee directors, nominee shareholders, and their nominators.

These registers help to:

  • Mitigate money-laundering risks

  • Enhance transparency in ownership and control

  • Prevent the misuse of nominee arrangements

Who must comply with the requirements

Unless exempted, all companies and foreign companies need to:

  • Set up and maintain private ROND and RONS

  • File with the Central ROND and RONS

These requirements apply even if your company:

  • Does not have any nominee directors or shareholders

  • Is dormant or undergoing winding up, striking off, receivership, or judicial management

Exempted companies

If you are exempt, you still need to:

Exempted local companies

Your company is exempted if it is:

  • A public company with shares listed on an approved exchange in Singapore

  • A Singapore financial institution

  • Wholly owned by the Singapore government

  • Wholly owned by a statutory body established by or under a public act for a public purpose

  • A wholly-owned subsidiary of any of the above companies

  • Listed on a securities exchange outside Singapore that is subject to these requirements by stock exchange rules, law, or other enforceable means:

    • Regulatory disclosure requirements

    • Adequate transparency requirements for beneficial owners

Exempted foreign companies

Your foreign company is exempted if it is a:

  • Singapore financial institution

  • Wholly-owned subsidiary of a foreign company that is a Singapore financial institution

  • Foreign company with shares listed on a securities exchange outside Singapore that is subject to these requirements by stock exchange rules, law, or other enforceable means:

    • Regulatory disclosure requirements

    • Adequate transparency requirements for beneficial owners

  • Foreign company with shares listed on an approved exchange in Singapore as a primary listing

Identifying nominee directors or shareholders

Nominee directors or nominee shareholders must inform your company that they are a nominee:

  • On the date of incorporation (if they are already a nominee)

  • Within 30 days of becoming a nominee (if this happens after incorporation)

Definitions: Nominee director or shareholder

Role

Definition

Nominee director

An individual who acts as a director on behalf of another person or entity (the nominator).

Nominee shareholder

A shareholder is a nominee if they:

  • Vote according to someone else's instructions. They regularly vote or are required to vote their shares based on what another person tells them to do; and/or

  • Receive dividend payments on behalf of another person.

Setting up your ROND and RONS

When to set up your ROND and RONS

You must set up your private registers on the same day you register your company.

When these requirements started

Registers

Requirements start date

Private ROND

  • 31 March 2017 for companies

  • 16 June 2025 for foreign companies

More details for foreign companies: Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 2024

Private RONS

  • 4 October 2022 for all companies

How to set up your ROND and RONS

  1. Check what you need to include in your ROND and RONS.

  2. Keep a physical or electronic copy of the details at your:

    • Registered office address; or

    • Corporate service provider's (CSP's) office

What to include in your ROND and RONS

If you have nominee directors or shareholders

Required information

For

You need to include their

Nominees

  • Name

Individual nominators

  • Full name

  • Aliases (if any)

  • Residential address

  • Email address

  • Contact number

  • Nationality

  • Identity card number or passport number

  • Date of birth

  • Date on which the director or shareholder became the nominee

  • Date on which the director or shareholder ceased to be the nominee (if applicable)

Corporate nominators

  • Name

  • Unique entity number (if any)

  • Address of registered office

  • Email address

  • Contact number

  • Legal form of the legal entity

  • Jurisdiction where the legal entity is formed or incorporated, and under which law

  • Name of corporate registrar in which the legal entity is formed or incorporated (if applicable)

  • Identification number or registration number issued to the legal entity when it was formed or incorporated (if applicable)

  • Date on which the director or shareholder became the nominee

  • Date on which the director or shareholder ceased to be the nominee (if applicable)

Note: Keep any supporting documents with your private ROND and RONS. You do not need to upload these documents when you file with ACRA.

If you have no nominee directors or shareholders

You may indicate this statement: “The company has not received any information on nominee directors or nominee shareholders of the company”.

Maintaining your ROND and RONS

You do not need to update your registers annually if there are no changes.

You only need to update your private registers within seven days when:

  • A director becomes a nominee

  • A director ceases to be a nominee

  • A shareholder becomes a nominee

  • A shareholder ceases to be a nominee

  • A nominator's particulars change

Note: You must also file with the Central ROND and RONS within two business days. This deadline starts after you update your private registers.

Related pages

Filing with the Central ROND & RONS

Unless exempt, all companies and foreign companies must file their Registers of Nominee Directors (ROND) and Nominee Shareholders (RONS) information with ACRA.

RORC, ROND & RONS guidance

Instructions and regulatory requirements for companies to establish and maintain statutory business registers.