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(k.) The interest in the firm of any hung kú share- holder who desires to be registered as such
under this Ordinance,
8.-(1.) If during the continuance of a registered Registration partnership any change is made or occurs, whether by of changes in reason of the death of a registered or unregistered partner partnerships. or otherwise howsoever, in :-
(a.) the firm name,
(b.) the general nature of the business,
(c.) the principal place of business,
(d.) the partners or the name of any partner,
(e.) the term or character of the partnership, (f) the sum contributed by any registered partner, (9.) the proportion in which the interest in the firm of any registered partner stands in relation to the interests of all the partners whether registered or nuregistered,
a statement, signed by the firm and by one or more of the registered partners, specifying the nature of the change shall within fourteen days be delivered to the Registrar of Companies.
(2.) If default is made in compliance with the require- ments of this section each of the registered partners shall, ou summary conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding ten dollars for each day during which the default continues. Provided that no single partner shall be liable to pay a fine exceeding five hundred dollars.
partners.
9. The statement of the amount contributed by a re-
Ad calorem gistered partner, and a statement of any increase in that
stamp duty amount, sent to the Registrar for registration under this on contri- Ordinance, shall be charged with an ad valorem stamp duty bations of $2 for every $1,000 or portion of every $1,000 up to by limited $10,000, and $1 for every $1,000 or portion of $1,000 on the next $15,000 and 50 cents for every $1,000 or portion of $1,000 on sums above $25,000 of the amount so con- tributed, or of the increase of that amount, as the case may be; and, in default of payment of stamp duty thereon as herein required, the duty with interest thereon at the rate of seven per cent. per annum from the date of delivery of such statement shall be a joint and several debt to His Majesty, recoverable from the registered partners, or any of them, in the said statements named, or, in the case of an increase, from all or any of the said registered partners whose discontinuance in the firm shall not, before the date of delivery of such statement of increase, have been duly notified to the Registrar of Companies.
10. Every one commits a misdemeanour who makes, Making false signs, sends, or delivers for the purpose of registration returns to be under this Ordinance any false or incomplete statement known by him to be false or incomplete.
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11. On receiving any statement made in pursuance of Registrar this Ordinance the Registrar of Companies shall cause the to file same to be filed, and he shall send by registered post or and issue deliver to the firm from whom such statement shall have certificate of been received a certificate of the registration thereof. registration.
12. The Registrar of Companies shall keep at his Register and office, in proper books to be provided for the purpose, a index to register and an index of all the registered partnerships be kept. registered as aforesaid, and of all the statements registered in relation to such partnerships.
13.-(1.) Any person may inspect the statements filed Inspection of under this Ordinance by the Registrar of Companies, and statements there shall be paid for each such inspection a fee of one registered. dollar; and any person may require a certificate of the registration of a registered partnership, or a copy of or extract from any registered statement, to be certified by the Registrar of Companies, and there shall be paid for such certificate of registration, certified copy, or extract such fees as the Governor-in-Council may appoint, not exceeding $1 for the certificate of registration, and not exceeding forty cents for each folio of seventy-two words,