2118
Fees and costs to
assimilate to
those in original
jurisdiction
of court.
Registrar of Companies may strike defunct
company off register. 8 Edw. 7,
c. 69, s. 242.
*
No. 58 of 1911.
COMPANIES.
221. Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance with respect to fees and costs and to any rules made thereunder, the same fees and percentages and solicitors' costs shall be payable as are provided for similar matters or proceedings in the original jurisdiction of the court.
Removal of defunct companies from register.
222.-(1) Where the Registrar of Companies has reasonable cause to believe that a company is not carrying on business or in operation, he shall send to the company by registered post a letter inquiring whether the company is carrying on business or in operation.
(2) If the Registrar of Companies does not within one month of sending the letter receive any answer thereto, he shall within fourteen days after the expiration of the month send to the company by post a registered letter referring to the first letter, and stating that no answer thereto has been received, and that if an answer is not received to the second letter within one month from the date thereof, a notice will be published in the Gazette with a view to striking the name of the company off the register.
(3) If the Registrar of Companies either receives an answer from the company to the effect that it is not carrying on business or in operation, or does not within one month after sending the second letter receive any answer, he may publish in the Gazette, and send to the company by post, a notice that at the expiration of three months from the date of that notice the name of the company mentioned therein will, unless cause is shown to the contrary, be struck off the register and the company will be dissolved.
(4) If, in any case where a company is being wound up, the Registrar of Companies has reasonable cause to believe either that no liquidator is acting, or that the affairs of the company are fully wound up, and the returns required to be made by the liquidator have not been made for a period of six consecutive months after notice by the Registrar of Companies demanding the returns has been sent by post to the company, or to the liquidator at his last-known place of business, the Registrar of Companies may publish in the Gazette and send to the company a like notice as is provided in sub-section (3).
*As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.