Making false
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be; and, in default of payment of stamp duty thereon as herein required, the duty with interest thereon at the rate of eight per cent. per annum from the date of delivery of such statement shall be a debt to the Crown and shall be recoverable by the Colonial Treasurer from such registered partner in the same manner as is provided for by the Crown Remedies Ordinance, 1875, in respect of rent due to the Crown.
11. Every one commits a misdemeanour who makes, returns to be gigus, sends, or delivers for the purpose of registration misdemean- under this Ordinance any false or incomplete statement
known by him to be false or incomplete.
our.
Registrar to file
statement and issue
certificate of registration.
Register and
index to be kept.
Inspection of statements registered.
Powers of
12. On receiving any statement made in pursuance of this Ordinance the Registrar of Companies shall cause the same to be filed, and he shall send by registered post or deliver to the partnership from which such statement has been received a certificate of the registration thereof.
13. The Registrar of Companies shall keep at his office, in proper books to be provided for the purpose, a register and an index of all the partnerships registered as aforesaid, and of all the statements registered in relation to such partnerships.
14.-(1.) Any person may inspect the statements filed under this Ordinance by the Registrar of Companies, and there shall be paid for each such inspection a fee of one dollar; and any person may require a certificate of the registration of a registered partnership, or a copy of or extract from any registerel 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 my appoint, not exceeding $1 for the certificate of registration, and not exceeding forty cents for each folio of seventy-two words.
(2.) A certificate of registration, or a copy of or extract from any statement registered under this Ordinance, if duly certified to be a true copy under the band of the Registrar of Companies or one of the Deputy Registrars (whom it shall not be necessary to prove to be tho Registrar or Deputy Registrar) shall, in all legal proceedings, civil or criminal, and in all cases whatsoever, be received in evi- dence.
15. The Governor-in-Council may make rules con- Governor-in- cerning any of the following matters :---
Council to make rules.
Effect of registration
not re-
(a.) The fees to be paid to the Registrar of Companies under this Ordinance so that they do yst exceed in the case of the original registration of a limited partnership the sum of twenty dollars and in any other case the sum of three dollars. (b) The duties or additional duties to be performed by the Registrar of Companies for the purposes of this Ordinance.
(e.) The performance by Deputy. Registrars and other officers of acts by this Ordinance required to be done by the Registrar of Companies. (47.) The forms to be used for the purposes of this
Ordinance.
(2.) The publication from time to time in the Gazette of a list of the partnerships registered under this Ordinance.
(A) Generally the conduct and regulation of registra- tion under this Ordinance and any matters incidental thereto.
16. Nothing in this Ordinance shall be taken to affect any debt or liability incurred by a registered partnership or a trospective. registered partner or hung kú shareholder prior to the dare
of their respective registrations.
Commence- ment of Ordinance.
17. This Ordinance shall come into operation on the first day of January, 1912.