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paid up respectively, and a list of the directors of the company showing the full name, address, nationality and, if he has at any time changed his nationality, the former nationality of each director.
173. If in the case of a company to which this Order applies any alteration is made in the name of the company or in the Charter, statutes, memorandum and articles of the company or other instrument constituting or defining the constitution of the company a statement containing particulars of such alteration shall be registered within the time prescribed by Article 180.
174. Every company to which this Order applies shall register within the time prescribed by Article 180 a list of the directors of the company as at 1st January in every year showing the full name, address, nationality and, if he has at any time changed his nationality, the former nationality of each director, and shall from time to time as may be necessary register any alterations in such list.
175. Every company to which this Order applies shall register the name and address of its manager or other chief local repre- sentative in Egypt and shall from time to time as may be neces- sary register any alteration in the name or address of such representative.
Rules of Court may provide that service of writs, notices or other documents upon the person registered under this Article or at his last known address shall be good service for such documents upon the company.
176. The Consular Officer shall on the registration of a com- pany at the Consulate issue to the person making the registration a certificate, signed and sealed with the consular seal, that the company has been so registered.
177. On every registration of a company under Article 171 there shall be payable a fee of one pound and on every registra- tion under Articles 173, 174 and 175 there shall be payable a fee of two shillings.
178. The register of companies and the documents hereby ordered to be filed and the list of directors and the register of names and addresses of managers or representatives of com- panies, shall be open to the inspection of any person on payment of a fee of one shilling in respect of each inspection of a register.
179. A certified copy of any document required under Article 172 shall be deemed to be certified as a true copy if it is duly certified as a true copy by an official of the Government to whose custody the original is committed or by a Notary Public of the place in which the company is incorporated or by an officer of
the company before some person having authority to administer an oath as provided by Section 3 of the Commissioners for Oaths Act, 1889.(a)
180. The time within which particulars required under Articles 173 and 174 are to be delivered at the Consulate shall be twenty- one days after the happening of the event of which particulars are required or twenty-one days after the date on which notice thereof could in due course of post, and if despatched with due diligence, have been received in Egypt.
181. A company to which this Order applies shall not be en- titled to be recognized or protected by His Majesty unless it is registered under this Order but shall, although not so registered, be subject to the jurisdiction of the Court.
Nothing in this Article shall affect the right of the Secretary of State to direct that British protection shall not be accorded to a company even though it has been registered under this Order.
182. Any company failing to make such registration or to file such documents as required by Articles 171, 173, 174 or 175 of this Order and every director, manager, secretary or other officer who is knowingly a party to such default shall be guilty of an offence under this Order, and, on conviction thereof, in summary proceedings under Article 48 of this Order shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one pound a day for every day during which such offence continues, but not exceeding in all twenty pounds.
IX.-Miscellaneous.
183. Nothing in this Order shall deprive the Court of the right to observe, and to enforce the observance of, or shall deprive any person of the benefit of, any reasonable custom existing in Egypt, unless this Order contains some express and specific provision incompatible with the observance thereof.
184. Nothing in this Order shall prevent any Consular Officer in Egypt from doing anything which His Majesty's Consuls in the dominions of any other State in amity with His Majesty are, for the time being, by law, usage, or sufferance, entitled or enabled to do.
185. Section 219 of the Supreme Court of Judicature (Con- solidation) Act, 1925, (b) (which relates to the deposits of instru- ments creating powers of attorney in the Central Office of the Supreme Court in England or Ireland) shall apply to Egypt, the Office of the Supreme Court being substituted for the Central Office.
(a) 52-3 V. c. 10.
(b) 15-6 G. 5 c. 49.
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