Register of Nominee Directors (ROND)

The Register of Nominee Directors (ROND) is a record companies must maintain identifying directors who act on behalf of another person or entity — the nominator — under the Singapore Companies Act (Cap. 50). A nominee director is someone chosen and obligated to act as instructed by another party, such as voting at a shareholder meeting according to the nominator’s wishes.

Notifying your company

A nominee director must inform their company of their nominee status, and disclose the required particulars. If the director becomes a nominee after incorporation, they have 30 days to do so. If there’s a change to their nominee status, they must inform the company within 30 days of the change.

Companies exempted from maintaining ROND

ROND is compulsory for all companies except those exempted, which include:

• Singapore financial institutions, and their wholly-owned subsidiaries
• Public companies listed for quotation on an approved Singapore stock exchange, and their wholly-owned subsidiaries
• Government-owned companies, and their wholly-owned subsidiaries
• Companies wholly owned by a statutory body established under a public Act for a general purpose
• Companies listed on an overseas stock exchange and subject to equivalent beneficial ownership disclosure requirements

Exempted companies must still notify ACRA of their exempt status via ACRA’s Update Registers of Nominee Directors and Nominee Shareholders eService, and declare the exemption when filing annual returns.

Current ACRA requirements: filing with the Central ROND

Since 16 June 2025, ACRA maintains a Central Register of Nominee Directors and Nominee Shareholders (RONS), in addition to the private register companies already keep. Filing with ACRA is now mandatory for non-exempt companies — this replaces the earlier position where the private register only had to be produced on request.

Maintaining your private register: no annual update is needed if nothing changes. When a director becomes or ceases to be a nominee, or a nominator’s details change, the private register must be updated within 7 days.

Filing with ACRA’s Central ROND:

• Companies incorporated before 16 June 2025 had to file for the first time by 31 December 2025
• Companies incorporated from 16 June 2025 onward file on the same day they incorporate, via Bizfile
• Any update to an existing filing must reach ACRA within 2 business days

There are no extensions for these deadlines. Missing one can lead to prosecution and fines of up to $25,000.

What’s public

Once nominee information is filed with ACRA, the director’s nominee status appears publicly in the company’s Business Profile. The underlying ROND details themselves aren’t available for public purchase.

See our companion RONS glossary entry for the equivalent requirements covering nominee shareholders.

Setting up and maintaining a compliant ROND — and meeting the Central ROND filing deadlines — is exactly the kind of ongoing obligation HeySara’s corporate secretarial service manages for clients.