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Registration office.

S Edw. 7 c. 69 s. 243.

Fees.

7. 214.

formed under

Ordinances, 16. s. 245.

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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 Governor may appoint such registrars, assistant registrars, clerks, and 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 so 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 certificate of the incorporation of any company, or a copy or certified copy thereof, or a copy or extract 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 of forty cents for each folio of a certified 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) shall in all legal proceedings be admissible in evidence as of equal validity with the original document.

(7) Whenever any act is by this Ordinance directed to be done to or by the registrar of companies, it shall, until 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 mentioned in Table B. in the First Schedule to this Ordinance the several fees therein speci- fied, or such smaller fees as the Governor may from time to time direct.

(2) All fees paid to the registrar in pursuance of this Ordinance shall be paid to the Colonial Treasurer,

PART VI.

APPLICATION OF ORDINANCE TO COMPANIES

FORMED AND REGISTERED UNDER

FORMER ORDINANCES.

Application 225. In the application of this Ordinance to existing of Ordinance companies, it shall apply in the same manner in the case 10 companies of a limited company, other than a company limited by former guarantee, as if the company had been formed and registered under this Ordinance as a company limited by shares; in the case of a company limited by guarantee, as if the com- pany had been formed and registered under this Ordinance as a company limited by guarantee; and in the case of a company other than a limited company, as if the company had been formed and registered under this Ordinance as an unlimited company:

Application

Provided that reference, express or implied, to the date of registration shall be construed as a reference to the date at which the company was in fact registered.

226. This Ordinance shall apply to every company of Ordinance registere dbut not formed under the Companies Ordinance, to companies 1965, or the Companies Registration Ordinance, 1866, in the registered under former same manner as it is hereinafter in this Ordinance declared to apply to companies registered but not formed under this Ordinance.

Companies

Ordinances. 7. s. 246,

Provided that reference, express or implied, to the date of registration shall be construed as a reference to the date at which the company was registered under the Companies Ordinance, 1865, or the Companies Registration Ordinance, 1866 as the case may be.

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