1964_COMPANIES_ORDINANCE — Page 37

1984 Ed.]

Companies

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relation to a company or other body corporate, shall include the bankers and solicitors of the company or other body corporate and any person employed by the company or other body corporate as auditor, whether any such person is or is not an officer of the company or other body corporate.

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Replaced. 4 of 1963, s. 8)

145A. (1) An inspector appointed under section 142 or 143 to investigate the affairs of a company may, by instrument in writing. delegate to any person the powers conferred by section 145 to require the production of any books or documents and to put questions to officers and agents otherwise than on oath, or either of those powers, and a refusal to produce any such books or docu- ments or to give the answer to any such question to the person to whom the power in that behalf is so delegated shall be treated as a refusal to produce such books or documents or to give the answer to such question, as the case may be, to the inspector by whom the power is delegated.

(2) Where 2 or more inspectors are appointed as aforesaid in respect of the same investigation, the power conferred by this section may be exercised by any of them.

145B.

(Added, 6 of 1984, s. 100)

146. (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 investigation shall make a final report to the Financial Secretary.

(2) Any such report shall be written or printed, as the Finan- cial Secretary directs.

(3) The Financial Secretary---

(a) shall--

(i) forward a copy of any report made by the inspector to the company at its registered office;

(ii) if he thinks fit, furnish a copy thereof, on request and on payment of the fee appointed under section 305 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 144 or whose interests as a creditor of the company or of any such other body corporate appear to the Financial Secretary to be affected;

(iii) where the inspector is appointed under section 142, furnish, at the request of the applicants for the investiga- tion, a copy to them; and

(iv) where the inspector is appointed under section 143 in pursuance of an order of the court, file a copy in the court; (Added, 6 of 1984, s. 101)

Delegation of

powers by

inspector.

Inspector's report.

1948 c. 38, s. 168.