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1984 Ed.]
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(b) in the case of a body corporate, its corporate name and registered or principal office:
Provided that, where all the partners in a firm are joint secretaries, the name and principal office of the firm may be stated instead of the said particulars.
(4) The company shall, within the periods respectively mentioned in subsection (6), send to the Registrar a return in the prescribed form containing the particulars specified in the said register and a notification in the prescribed form of any change among its directors or in its secretary or in any of the particulars contained in the register, specifying the date of the change.
(5) On the first appointment of a person as director of a company, the company shall send with the said return or notification, as the case may be, a statement in writing, signed by such person, that he has accepted his appointment as such director and that he has attained the age of 21 years; and for the purposes of this subsection "director" does not include a person deemed to be a director under section 153(2).
(6) The periods referred to in subsection (4) are the following:
(a) the period within which the said return is to be sent shall be a period of 14 days from the appointment of the first directors of the company otherwise than by virtue of section 153(2); and
(b) the period within which the said notification of a change is to be sent shall be 14 days from the happening thereof: Provided that, in the case of a company registered before the commencement* of the Companies (Amendment) Ordinance 1984, the period within which the said return is to be sent shall be 30 days from that date.
(7) The register to be kept under this section shall during business hours (subject to such reasonable restrictions as the company may by its articles or in general meeting impose, so that not less than 2 hours in each day be allowed for inspection) be open to the inspection of any member of the company without charge and of any other person on payment of $1, or such less sum as the company may prescribe, for each inspection.
(8) If any inspection required under this section is refused or if default is made in complying with subsection (1), (2), (3), (4) or (5), the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a default fine.
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(9) In the case of any such refusal, the court may by order compel an immediate inspection of the register.
(10) For the purposes of this section-
(6 of 1984.) (*31.8.84.)