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32. A company may, on giving notice by advertisement Power in some newspaper circulating in the Colony, and in the to close case of a company with a local register also in some news- paper circulating in the place where the local register kept, close the register of members for any time times not exceeding in the whole thirty days in each year.
33.-(1) If-
or
register. 8 Edw. 7 €. 69 s. 31.
Power of court to
(a) the name of any person is, without sufficient rectify
cause, entered in or omitted from the register register. of members of a company; or
(b) default is made or muccessary delay takes place in entering on the register the fact of any person having ceased to be a member,
the person aggrieved, or any member of the company, or the company, may apply to the court for rectification of the register.
(2) The application may be made by motion in the court, or by application to a judge of the court sitting in chambers, or in such other manner as the court may direct ; and the court may either refuse the application, or may order rectification of the register, and payment by the company of any damages sustained by any party aggrieved.
(3) On any application under this section the court may decide any question relating to the title of any person who is a party to the application to have his name entered in or omitted from the register, whether the question arises between members or alleged members, or between members or alleged members on the one hand and the company on the other hand; and generally may decide any question necessary or expedient to be decided for rectification of the register.
(4) In the case of a company required by this Ordinance to send a list of its members to the registrar of companies, the court, when making an order for rectification of the register, shall by its order direct notice of the rectification to be given to the registrar,
Jb. s. 32.
34. The register of members shall be primâ facie evidence Register to of any matters by this Ordinance directed or authorised 10 Ib. s. 33.
be inserted therein.
be evidence.
35.-(1) The registrar may subject to instruction Registrar from the Governor issue an annual licence, available may license for the period of one year, to any company whose companies to
keep local objects comprise the transaction of business outside the registers. Colony, empowering such company, if it is authorized so to Osl. 20 of do by its regulations as originally framed or as altered by 1909 s. 2. special resolution, to keep in any place in which it transacts business a register or registers of members: Provided that a company applying for such licenco must satisfy the re- gistrar by a statutory declaration to be filed with him that a principal part of the business of the company is carried on at or near the place where it desires to keep such register.
Every such licence shall be valid only until the thirty-first day of December next following the date on which it is issued: Provided always that where the period between the date of the issue of a licence and the thirty-first day of December next following is less than a year a proportionate part only of the fee in sub-section (2) shall be charged.
(2) An annual fee at the rate of four cents for every Ordinance 16 hundred dollars of the paid up capital of the company to of 1907 s. 4. which the licence is issued shall be paid by such company in respect of such licence. Such fee shall be paid to the
Colonial Treasurer within four months of the date of the licence.
(3) The company shall give to the registrar notice of the situation of the office where any such register (in this Ordinance called a local register) is kept or proposed to be kept, and of any change therein, and of the discontinuance of any such office in the event of the same being discontinued,