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(2) The Governor shall direct whether any and what remuneration is to be allowed to any officer or person per- forming any duties nuder this Part of this Ordinance in relation to the winding up of companies, and may vary, increase, or diminish that remuneration as he thinks fit.
(3) The accounts of the official receiver under this Ordinance in relation to the winding up of companies shall be audited in such manner as the Governor may direct, and the official receiver shall make such returns and give surb information as the Governor may direct.
Hules and Fees.
and local
220.-(1) The Chief Justice with the approval of the Rules and Legislative Council may make general rules for carrying fees for and also rules of pro- into effect the objects of this Ordinance so far as relates winding up cedure for the par- to the winding up of companies, and to local registers [] registers and poses of this Ordin- ance including rules as to costs and fecs. and by such person und in such manner
procedure
(2) There shall be paid in respect of proceedings under 1. s. 237. this Ordinance in relation to the winding up of companies such fees [ ] as the Chief Justice with the sanction of the Approval Colonial Treasurer] may direct [, and the Colonial Treasurer of the may direct by wlion and in what mammer the same are to Legislative be collected and accounted for, and to what account thay Council are to be paid].
(3) The authority having power to make rules or give directions under this section may, by any such rules or directions, repeal, alter, or unend any rules and directions which are in force at the commencement of this Ordinance.
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This Ordin-
221. Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance with respect to fees and costs and to any rules made therenuder Subject to the same fees and percentages and solicitors' costs shall he ance fees payable as are provided for similar matters or proceedings and costs to in the Original Jurisdiction of the court.
assimilate to
Removal of Defunct Companies from Register.
those in
Original Jurisdiction
of court.
222.-(1) Where the registrar of companies has reason- Registrat able cause to believe that a company is not carrying on may strike business or in operation, he sbull send to the company by defunel registered post a letter inquiring whether the company is company off carrying on business or in operation.
(2) If the registrar does not within one month of send- ing the letter receive any answer thereto, le shall within fourteen days after the expiration of the mouth send to the company by post a registered letter referring to the first letter, and stating that no auswer thereto has been received, and that if an answer is not received to the second letter within one mouth 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 oither receives an answer from the company to the effort that it is not carrying ou business or in operation, or does not within one month after sending the second letter receive any answer, be 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, he struck off the register and the company will be dissolved,
(4) If, in any case where a company is being wound up, the registrar 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 conse- cutive months after notice by the registrar demanding the returns has been sent by post to the company, or to the liquidator at his last known place of business, the registrar may publish in the Gazette and send to the company a like notice as is provided in the last preceding subsection.
register.
8 Edw. 7 c. 80 s. 242.
Registration office.
8 Edw. 7 c. 69 3. 248.
Fees.
76. a. 244.
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(5) At the expiration of the time mentioned in the notice
the registrar may, unless cause to the contrary is previously shown by the company, strike its name off the register, and shall publish notice thereof in the Gazette, and on the publication in the Gazette of this notice the company shall be dissolved: Provided that the liability (if any) of every director, managing offfeer, and member of the com- pany shall contine and may be euforead as if the company had not been dissolved.
(6) If a company or any member or creditor thereof feels aggrieved by the company having been struck off the register, the court on the application of the company ur member or creditor may, if satisfied that the company was at the time of the striking off earrying on business or in operation, or otherwise that it is just that the company be restore to the register, order the name of the company to be restored to the register, and thereupon the company shall be deemed to have continued in existence as if its name had not been strack off; and the court may by the order give such directions and make such provisions as seem just for placing the company and all other persons in the same position as nearly as may be as if the name of the company had not been struck off.
(7) A letter or notice under this section may be addressed to the company at its registered office, or, if no office has benu registered, to the care of some director or officer of the company, or, if there is no director or officer of the company whose #ame and wiress are known to the registrar of cumpanies, may be sent to each of the persons who subscribed the memorandum, addressed to him at the address mentioned in the memorandum.
PART V.
REGISTRATION OFFICE AND FEES. 223.-(1) For the purposes of the registration of com- panies under this Ordinance, there shall be a registration office in the Colony,
(2) The Goveruor may appoint such registrars, assistant registrars, elerks, aud servants as he thinks necessary for the registration of companies under this Ordinance, and may make regulations with respect to their duties; and may remove any persons an appointed.
(3) The salaries of the persons appointed under this section shall be fixed by the Governor.
(4) The Governor may direct a seal or seals to be pre- pared for the authentication of documents required for or connected with the registration of companies.
(5) Any person may inspect the documents kept by the registrar on payment of one dollar for each inspection; and any person may require a certifiente of the incorporatiou of any company, or a copy or certified copy thereof, or a copy or extraer of any other document or any part of any other document, to be certified by the registrar, on pay- ment of five dollars for a certificate of incorporation or a copy or certified copy thereof, and at forty cents for encl folio of a cortified copy or extract of any other document.
(6) A copy of or extract from any document kept and registered at the office for the registration of companies certified to be a true copy under the hand of the registrar or an assistant registrar (whose official position it shall not be necessary to prove) shalt in all legal proceedings be admissible in evidence as of equal validity with the original
document.
(7) Whenever any net is by this Ordinance directed to be done to or by the registrar of companies, it shall, util the Governor otherwise directs, be done to or by the existing registrar of companies, or in his absence to or by such person as the Governor may for the time being autho- rise.
224.—(1) There shall be paid to the registrar in respect of theseveral matters mentionel in Table B. in the First Schedule to this Ordinance the several fees therein speci- fied, or such smaller foes as the Governor may from time to time direct.
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