1964_COMPANIES_ORDINANCE — Page 179

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1984 Ed.]

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(2) If under any provision of this Ordinance there is delivered to the Registrar a document (whether being an original document or a copy) which in the opinion of the Registrar does not comply with such requirements so prescribed under this section as are applicable to it, the Registrar may serve on any person by whom under that provision the document was required to be delivered (or, if there are 2 or more such persons, may serve on any of them) a notice stating his opinion to that effect and indicating the requirements so pre- scribed with which in his opinion the document does not comply; and any such notice shall be served by registered post.

(3) Where the Registrar serves a notice under subsection (2) with respect to a document delivered under any such provision, then, for the purposes of any enactment which enables a penalty to be imposed in respect of any omission to deliver to the Registrar a document required to be delivered under that provision (and, in particular, for the purposes of any such enactment whereby such a penalty may be imposed by reference to each day during which the omission continues)-

(a) any duty imposed by that provision to deliver such a document to the Registrar shall be treated as not having been discharged by the delivery of that document; but

(b) no account shall be taken of any days falling within the

period mentioned in subsection (4).

(4) The period referred to in subsection (3)(b) is the period beginning with the day on which the document was delivered to the Registrar as mentioned in subsection (2) and ending with the fourteenth day after the date of service of the notice under subsec- tion (2) by virtue of which subsection (3) applies.

(5) In this section any reference to delivering a document shall be construed as including a reference to sending, forwarding, pro- ducing or (in the case of a notice) giving it.

(Replaced, 6 of 1984, s. 240)

347. (1) The Registrar may, if he thinks fit, accept under any provision of this Ordinance requiring a document to be delivered to him any material other than a document which contains the information in question and is of a kind approved by him.

(2) The delivery to the Registrar of material accepted by him as aforesaid shall be a sufficient compliance with the provision in question.

(3) Section 305 shall have effect as if any material so accepted were a document kept by the Registrar.

(4) In this section any reference to delivering a document shall be construed as including a reference to sending, forwarding, pro- ducing or (in the case of a notice) giving it.

(Replaced, 6 of 1984, s. 240)

Power of Registrar to accept information on microfilm, etc. 1976 c. 69, s. 36.