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furnishes

any

information

under this

(b) knowingly

required to be furnished Ordinance which is false in any material particular; or

(c) having custody of any book or document which a person is authorised to inspect under this Ordinance, refuses or wilfully neglects to produce the book or document for inspection;

or

(d) forges or fraudulently alters or uses or permits to be fraudulently used any licence issued under this Ordinance,

shall be liable upon sunimary conviction to imprison- ment for any term not exceeding six months and to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.

(3.) Where the person guilty of an offence under this Ordinance is a corporate body, every director, manager, secretary, and other officer of the corporate body who is knowingly a party to the default, shall also be guilty of the like offence, and liable to the like punishment.

to bearer. 7 & 8 Geo. 5, c. 67, s. 4.

5.--(1.) A company carrying on any business to which Provisions as section 2 of this Ordinance applies, and which has issued to warrants share warrants to bearer, may give notice requiring the holders of the share warrants to surrender their warrants for cancellation and to have their names entered in the register.

(2.) The notice shall be given by advertisement in the Gazette, and by any other method by which notices to, or for the information of, holders of share warrants to bearer are required to be given by the regulations of the com- pany or the conditions of issue of the warrants.

(3.) Where such a notice has been given no person shall, as holder of a share warrant, be entitled to attend or vote at any meeting of the company, and any divi- deuds or interest which may become payable in respect of any shares represented by share warrants shall be retain- ed by the company until the share warrants have been surrendered for cancellation.

(4.) For the purposes of this Ordinanance the expres- sion "share warrants to bearer" includes any bearer securities which confer on the holder thereof any voting power with respect to the management of the company.

6. No information obtained under this Ordinance Provisions as as to any person or any business shall he published to secrecy. except for the purposes of legal proceedings under this 7 & 8 Geo. 5,

c. 67, s. 5. Ordinance, and if any person knowingly publishes any information in contravention of this provision he shall be liable upon summary conviction to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months and to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.

7. The Governor in Council may make regulations Regulations. for prescribing anything which, under this Ordinance, 7 & 8 Geo. 5, is to be prescribed, and generally for carrying this c. 67, s. 6. Ordinance into effect, and such regulations shall provide for excluding from dealings by way of wholesale trade within the meaning of this Ordinance dealings in quantities below such limits as may be prescribed gen- erally or as respects any particular metal or metallic ore.

8. (1.) A company carrying on any business to which Declarations. section 2 of this Ordinance applies may give notice 7 & 8 Geo. 5,

c. 67, s. 6. requiring a shareholder or debenture holder to make a declaration under the Statutory Declarations Act, 1835, as to the beneficial ownership of the shares or deben- tures standing in his name, and as to the nationality of such beneficial owner.

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