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(c) the authorised share capital of the company and the amount thereof which has been issued, the classes into which it is divided and the rights of each class of shareholders in respect of capital, dividends and voting;
(d) the dividends, if any, paid by the company on each class of shares during each of the three financial years immediately preceding the offer, and if no dividend has been paid in respect of shares of any particular class during any of those years, a statement to that effect;
(e) the total amount of any debentures issued by the company and outstanding at the date of the statement, together with the rate of interest payable thereon;
(f) the names and addresses of the directors of the
company;
(g) whether or not the shares offered are fully paid up, and, if not, to what extent they are paid up;
(h) whether or not the shares are quoted on, or permission to deal therein has been granted by, any recognised stock exchange in the Colony or elsewhere, and, if so, which, and, if not, a statement that they are not so quoted or that no such permission has been granted; (i) where the offer relates to units, particulars of the names and addresses of the persons in whom the shares represented by the units are vested, the date of and the parties to any document defining the torms on which those shares are held, and an address in the Colony where that document or a copy thereof can be inspected.
In this subsection the expression "company" means the company by which the shares to which the statement relates were or are to be issued.
(5) If any person acts, or incites, causes or procures any person to act, in contravention of this section, he shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceed- ing six months or to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars or to both such imprisonment and fine, and in the case of a second or subsequent offence to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twelve months or to a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or to bath such imprisonment and fine.
(6) Where a person convicted of an offence under this section is a company (whether a company within the meaning of this Ordinance or not), every director and every officer concerned in the management of the company shall be guilty of the like offence unless he proves that the act constituting the offence took place without his knowledge or consent.
(7) In this section, unless the context otherwise requires, the expression "shares" means the shares of a company, whether a company within the meaning of this Ordinance or not, and includes debentures and units, and the expression "unit" means any right or interest (by whatever name called) in a share, and for the purposes of this section a person shall not in relation to a company be regarded as not being a member of the public by reason only that he is a holder of shares in the company or a purchaser of goods from the company.
(8) Where any person is convicted of having made an offer in contravention of the provisions of this sec- tion, the court before which he is convicted may order that any contract made as a result of the offer shall