Section 513 of The Companies Act No. 17 of 2015: Enforcement of prohibition: orders available to the Court after contravention

(1) An order is a remedial order for the purpose of this section if it is made in order to place a person affected by a contravention of section 511 in the position in which the person would have been...

Nothing in this Part affects the validity of an allotment or sale of securities or of an agreement to allot or sell securities.

(1) A company that is a public company shall not conduct business or exercise a borrowing power unless the Registrar has issued it with a trading certificate under this section. (2) On receiving an...

(1) A public company that wishes to obtain a trading certificate shall make an application in writing to the Registrar. (2) The Registrar shall refuse such an application if it does not— (a) state...

For the purposes of sections 516 and 517, the authorised minimum in relation to the nominal value of a public listed company's allotted share capital is six million seven hundred and fifty thousand...

(1) If a company does business or exercises any borrowing powers incontravention of section 516, the company, and each officer of the company who is in default, commit an offence and on conviction are...

(1) A limited company having a share capital may issue redeemable sharesthat are to be redeemed, or are liable to be redeemed, at the option of the company or the shareholder. (2) The articles of a...

(1) The directors of a limited company may determine the terms, conditions and manner of redemption of shares if they are authorised to do so— (a) by the company's articles; or (b) by a resolution...

(1) Redeemable shares of a limited company can be redeemed only if theyare fully paid. (2) The terms of redemption of shares in a limited company may provide that the amount payable on redemption...

(1) Redeemable shares of a limited company can be redeemed only out of—(a) distributable profits of the company; or (b) the proceeds of a fresh issue of shares made for the purposes of the...

If shares in a limited company are redeemed— (a) the shares are cancelled by operation of this section; and (b) the amount of the issued share capital of the company is diminished by the nominal...

(1) Within one month after a company has redeemed any redeemable shares, the company shall lodge with the Registrar for registration a notice specifying the shares that have been redeemed. (2) The...

(1) This section applies to a purchase or acquisition of shares by a limited company of its own shares in accordance with this Act and— (a) the purchase or acquisition is made out of distributable...

(1) If a company has shares of only one class, the company shall ensure that the aggregate nominal value of shares held as treasury shares does not at any time exceed ten per cent of the nominal value...

(1) This section applies to a company that holds shares as treasury shares. (2) The company may not exercise any right in respect of the treasury shares,including any right to attend or vote at...

(1) A company that holds shares as treasury shares may, at any time— (a) sell the shares, or any of them, for a cash consideration; or (b) transfer the shares, or any of them, for the purposes of or...

(1) Within one month after shares held by a company as treasury shares—(a) are sold; or (b) are transferred for the purposes of an employees' share scheme, the company shall lodge with the Registrar...

(1) A company that holds shares may at any time cancel all or any of the shares. (2) As soon as shares held by a company as treasury shares cease to bequalifying shares, the company shall cancel...

(1) Within one month after shares held by a company as treasury shares are cancelled, the company shall lodge with the Registrar for registration a return that specifies in relation to shares of each...

(1) This section applies when shares held by a company as treasury shares are sold. (2) If the proceeds of the sale are equal to or less than the purchase price paid by the company for the shares,...

(1) If a company that holds or held shares as treasury shares fails to complywith a requirement of this Part, the company, and each officer of the company who is in default, commit an offence and on...

(1) This Part applies only to public companies. (2) This Part applies to the issued shares of a public company, or the issuedshares of a class shares of a public company, that confer rights to vote...

(1) A public company may give notice under this section to any person whom the company knows or reasonably believes— (a) holds an interest in the company's shares; or to have held such an interest at...

(1) If— (a) a notice under section 536 is served by a company on a person who holds or held interests in shares of the company; and (b) the person fails to give the company the information required...

(1) A person who— (a) fails to comply with a notice under section 536;or (b) in purported compliance with such a notice— (i) makes a statement that the person knows to be false in a material...

(1) A person is not obliged to comply with a notice given under 536 if the personis for the time being examined by the Cabinet Secretary from the operation of that section. (2) The Cabinet Secretary...

(1) The effect of an order under section 537 that shares are subject to restrictions is as follows— (a) a transfer of the shares is void; (b) no voting rights are exercisable in respect of the...

(1) This section applies if shares are subject to restrictions imposed by an order under section 537. (2) A person who— (a) exercises or purports to exercise a right— (i) to dispose of shares that...

(1) If an order of the Court directs shares to be subject to restrictions, thecompany or any person aggrieved may make an application to the Court on the ground that the order unfairly affects the...

(1) An application may be made to the Court for an order directing that the shares are to cease to be subject to restrictions. (2) An application for an order under this section may be made by the...

(1) The Court may order that the shares subject to restrictions be sold, subjectto the Court’s approval as to the sale. (2) An application for an order under subsection (1) may only be made by...

(1) If shares are sold in accordance with an order of the Court under section544, the seller shall pay the proceeds of the sale, less the costs of the sale, into court for the benefit of the persons...

(1) The members of a company may require it to exercise its powers undersection 536. (2) A company shall comply with such a requirement once it has receivedrequests (to the same effect) from members...

(1) A company that is required under section 546 to exercise its powers torequire a person to provide information about their interests in the company’s share, shall exercise those powers in the...

(1) On the conclusion of an investigation carried out by a company in accordance with a requirement made under section 546, the company shall prepare a report of the information obtained as a result...

(1) If a company fails to comply with a requirement of section 548(1) to (6), the company, and each officer of the company who is in default, commit an offence and on conviction are each liable to a...

(1) A company that has prepared a report in accordance with section 548 shall ensure that during the company’s ordinary business hours it is available for inspection by any person without...

(1) A company shall keep a register of information that it has obtained as a result of a requirement imposed under section 536. (2) Within three days after receiving any such information, the company...

(1) Except in so far as the regulations otherwise provide, a company shall keep the register required by section 551 available for inspection at the company’s registered office. (2) If a company...

(1) A company that is required to keep a register under 551, shall keep the register open during the company’s ordinary business hours for inspection by any person without charge. (2) Any person who...

(1) A company that receives a request under section 553 shall— (a) comply with the request if it is satisfied that it is made for a proper purpose; and (b) refuse the request if it is not so...

(1) If a company refuses to allow an inspection required under section 553, or fails to provide a copy required under that section, otherwise than in accordance with an order of the Court, the...

(1) A person who, in making a request under section 553, makes a statementthat the person knows is, or ought to know is, false or misleading in a material respect commits an offence. (2) A person...

(1) A company that is required to keep a register under section 551 shall notdelete an entry in it except in accordance with section 558 and 559. (2) If an entry is deleted in contravention of...

A company may remove an entry from the register kept under section 551 if more than six years have elapsed since the entry was made.

(1) This section applies if, in accordance with an obligation imposed by a noticeunder section 536, a person gives to a company the name and address of another person who holds an interest in shares...

(1) If a person who is identified in the register kept by a company under section551 as being a party to an agreement to which section 566 applies ceases to be a party to the agreement, the person may...

(1) A company that ceases to be a public company shall nevertheless continueto keep any register kept under section 551 until end of the period of six years after it has ceased to be such a...

(1) This section applies to determine for the purposes of this Part whether a person has an interest in shares. (2) In this Part— (a) a reference to an interest in shares includes an interest of any...

(1) Section 536 applies in relation to a person who has, or previously had, oris or was entitled to acquire, a right to subscribe for shares of the company as it applies in relation to a person who...