Inspector's report.
11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 38.
5. 168.
135A. (1) The inspector may, and, if so directed by the Financial Secretary, shall, make interim reports to the Financial Secretary, and on the conclusion of the investiga- tion shall make a final report to the Financial Secretary,
(2) Any such report shall be written or printed, as the Financial Secretary directs.
(3) The Financial Secretary-
(a) sball-
(i) forward a copy of any report made by the inspector to the company at its registered office:
() if he thinks fit, furnish a copy thereof, on request and on payment of the fee appointed under section 290 for a certified copy of a document where the copy has been prepared in the office of the Registrar, to any person who is a member of the company or of any other body corporate dealt with in the report by virtue of section 134B or whose interests as a creditor of the company or of any such other body corporate appear to the Financial Secretary to be affected; and
(ii) where the inspector is appointed under section 134, furnish, at the request of tha applicants for the investigation, a copy to them; (b) shall, where the inspector is appointed under section 134A in pursuance of an order of the court, file a copy of any such report in the court; and (c) may also cause any such report to be printed and
published, and to be delivered to the Registrar. 135B. (1) If from any report made under section on inspector's 135A it appears to the Financial Secretary that any person 11 & 12 Geo. has, in relation to the company or to any other body cor- 6. c. 38, porate whose affairs have been investigated by virtue of section 134B. been guilty of any offence for which he is criminally liable, the Financial Secretary shall refer the matter to the Attorney General,
Proceedings
report.
§. 169.
(2) In relation to any prosecution arising from any such report, it shall be the duty of all officers and agents of the company or other body corporate as aforesaid, as the case may be, other than the defendant in the proceedings, to give to the Attorney General all assistance in connexion with the prosecution that they are reasonably able to give, and subsection (5) of section 135 shall apply for the pur- poses of this subsection as it applies for the purposes of that section.
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(3) If, in the case of any body corporate liable to be wound up under this Ordinance, it appears to the Financial Secretary, from any report made under section 135A, that the body corporate ought to be wound up, the Financial Secretary may present a petition to the court for the body corporate to be wound up by the court if the court thinks it just and equitable that the body corporate should be so wound up
(4) If from any such report as aforesaid it appears to the Financial Secretary that proceedings ought in the public interest to be brought by any body corporate dealt with by the report for the recovery of damages in respect of any fraud, misfensance or other misconduct in connexion with the promotion or formation of that body corporate or the management of its affairs, or for the recovery of any property of the body corporate that has been misapplied or wrongfully retained, he may himself bring proceedings for that purpose in the name of the body corporate.
(5) The Government shall indemnify the body cor- porate against any costs or expenses incurred by it in or in connexion with any proceedings brought by virtue of subsection (4),
136. (1) The expenses of and incidental to an investi- of the affairs Eation by an inspector appointed by the Financial Secretary of a company. under section 134 or section 134A shall be defrayed in the 11 & 12 Gec. first instance out of the general revenue of the Colony, but the following persons shall, to the extent mentioned, be liable to repay such expenses to the Government-
6. c. 38, s. 170.
(n) any person who is convicted on a prosecution instituted as a result of the investigation, or who is ordered to pay damages or restore any property in proceedings brought by virtue of subsection (4) of section 135B, to such extent as, in either case, may be ordered by the court;
(b) any body corporate in whose name proceedings are brought as aforesaid, to the amount or value of any sums or property recovered by it as a result of those proceedings; and
(c) unless as a result of the investigation a prosecu-
tion is instituted by the Attorney General-
(i) any body corporate dealt with by the report, where the inspector was appointed otherwise than
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