The Academy provides stakeholding services in sale and purchase transactions over newly developed private residential properties, commercial properties and executive condominiums under certain statutory schemes (the “Applicable Properties”). The Academy functions as a stakeholder in place of the Purchasers' Solicitors for the last instalment payments. This involves a direct deposit service for Purchasers of the Applicable Properties to conveniently pay in their stakeholding monies through banking outlets near their homes or solicitors’ offices.
 

All the three local banks are participating in the direct deposit service. The Singapore Academy of Law (Stakeholding) Rules (the “Stakeholding Rules") provide procedures to ensure that the payment in and out of stakeholding monies can be effected smoothly. There are two main payment mechanisms:

A. Payment in of stakeholding monies. The stakeholder will hold the instalment payments until the appropriate times for their payment out to the Vendor.

B. Payment out of stakeholding monies. The Stakeholding Rules provide procedures for parties to call for payment out of the stakeholding monies to the Vendor and deal with any authorised deductions which the Purchaser is entitled to make under the Sale and Purchase Agreements, and deductions which are disputed by the Vendor.

The Academy also issues Stakeholding Instructions and Circulars from time to time for reference by the Purchasers and Vendors and their solicitors. Copies of the Stakeholding Instructions and Circulars can be downloaded, or emailed to law firms as a soft copy upon request. Alternatively, hard copies can be obtained from Level 4M of the Singapore Academy of Law.

For any enquiries on the Singapore Academy of Law Stakeholding Services, please call the following officers:

Ms Low Hui Min (Chief Financial Officer) 63324135
Ms Pamela Lo 63324154
Ms Siti Radiah 63324176