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Bankruptcy Orders Made by Bankruptcy Number

Data from Feb 1933 to Dec 2015

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:30 SGT

MLAW (Ministry of Law)

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BankruptcyOrdersMadebyBankruptcyNumber.csv (73K rows, 1.7 MB)

'Date of Bankruptcy Order Made Date (YYYY-MM-DD)	Bankruptcy Number Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
1933-02-28	B 0009261932E
1941-03-28	B 0000751941T
1947-11-14	B 0000201947T
1948-02-13	B 0000261947K
1948-02-13	B 0000301947A
1948-03-05	B 0000331947N
1948-04-02	B 0000321947K
1948-06-11	B 0000221948E
1948-06-11	B 0000101948F
1948-06-18	B 0000141948K

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
'Date of Bankruptcy Order Made	bo_date	Date (YYYY-MM-DD)	-	-
Bankruptcy Number	bankruptcy_no	Text	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_316490834716a16a6bb8764662e0b856"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Ministry of Law. (2016). Bankruptcy Orders Made by Bankruptcy Number (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved October 3, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_316490834716a16a6bb8764662e0b856/view

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Created on

30 Jun 2016

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Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

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MLAW (Ministry of Law)