The Companies Act No. 17 of 2015▤
Charges created by a company
(1) A company that creates a charge to which this section applies shall, before the deadline for registration, lodge with the Regi…
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The Companies Act No. 17 of 2015▤
Interpretation: Part XXXII
(1) For purposes of this Part, “charge” includes a mortgage. (2) For the purposes of this Part, it is immaterial where land that i…
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Registrar’s power to make Rules
(1) The Registrar may make rules (called the Registrar’s Rules) about anymatter in respect of which the Registrar may make provisi…
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Provision for publishing notices by alternative means
(1) A notice that would otherwise require to be published by the Registrar in the Gazette may instead be published by such other m…
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Supplementary provisions relating to electronic communications
(1) The Registrar may require a company to give any necessary consents tothe use of electronic means for communications by the Reg…
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Enforcement of company’s lodgement obligations
(1) This section applies if a company has not complied with an obligation imposed by this Act— (a) to lodge a document to the Regi…
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Offence to lodge false or misleading documents or to make false or misleading statements to Registrar
A person who— (a) lodges or causes to be lodged with the Registrar for registration a document containing information; or (b) make…
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Translation of names and addresses: certification
(1) The regulations may require the certification of transliterations and prescribe the form of certification. (2) Different provi…
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Transliteration of names and addresses: voluntary translation into Roman characters
(1) If a name or address is or has been lodged with the Registrar in a permitted form using other than Roman characters, the compa…
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The Companies Act No. 17 of 2015▤
Transliteration of names and addresses: permitted characters
(1) The Registrar may decline to accept for lodgement documents that containnames and addresses unless those names and address com…
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Certified translations
(1) In this Part, a “certified translation” means a translation certified as prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of thi…
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The Companies Act No. 17 of 2015▤
Voluntary lodgement of translations
(1) A company may lodge with the Registrar for registration one or more certified translations of any document relating to the com…
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Documents that may be prepared and lodged in other languages
(1) Documents to which this section applies may be drawn up and lodged withthe Registrar in a language other than English, but onl…
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Documents to be prepared and lodged in the English language
Subject to section 866, the Registrar may refuse to accept any document lodged with, or delivered, sent or submitted to the Regist…
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Powers of Court on ordering removal of entry from the Register
(1) If the Court makes an order for the removal of an entry from the Registerunder section 863, it may also give any of the follow…
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Rectification of the Register under Court order
(1) The Registrar shall remove from the Register any entry— (a) that derives from anything that the Court has declared to be inval…
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Rectification of Register on application to Registrar
(1) On receiving an application made in accordance with this section, the Registrar shall remove from the Register an entry relati…
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Administrative removal of information from the Register
(1) The Registrar may remove from the Register any entry that there was power to make, but no duty. (2) This power is exercisable,…
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Registrar’s notice to resolve inconsistency on the Register
(1) If it appears to the Registrar that the information contained in a document lodged with the Registrar for registration is inco…
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Issue of legal process for production of records kept by the Registrar
(1) Any legal process compelling the Registrar to produce a record kept by theRegistrar may issue from a court only with the permi…
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Certification of copies of records by Registrar
(1) The Registrar shall certify copies of records provided in hard copy formunder section 854 as true copies unless the applicant…
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Form and manner in which copies to be provided
The Registrar may determine the form and manner in which copies are to be provided under section 854.
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The Companies Act No. 17 of 2015▤
Form of application for inspection or copy
The Registrar may specify the form and manner in which application is to be made for— (a) an inspection under section 852; or (b)…
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Registrar can be required to make address unavailable for public inspection
(1) The Registrar is, on an application made in accordance with the regulations referred to in subsection (2), required to make an…
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