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(35, 'COMPANIES CODE, 1963 (ACT 179)', '<span style="font-family: Arial;">ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">CHAPTER I—PRELIMINARY</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">1. Commencement.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">2. Interpretation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">3. Application of Act.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">4. Application of particular chapters of the Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">5. Prohibition of partnerships exceeding 20 members.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">6. Companies formed for special purposes.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">7. Saving of equity and common law.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">CHAPTER II—PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL COMPANIES</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part A—Formation and Matters Incidental Thereto</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">8.&nbsp; Right to form a company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">9. Types of company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">10. Companies limited by guarantee.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">11. Conversion of company limited by shares to company limited by guarantee.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">12. Duties of promoters.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">13. Pre-incorporation contracts.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">14. Formation of companies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">15. Names of companies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part B—The Company''s Regulations</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">16. Contents of Regulations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">17. Form of Regulations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">18. Subscribing to Regulations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">19. Regulations of existing companies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">20. Prints of Tables A and B.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">21. Effect of Regulations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">22. Alteration of Regulations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">23. Copies of Regulations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part C—Capacity of Companies</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">24. Powers of companies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">25. Ultra Vires.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">26. Alteration of authorised businesses.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part D—Commencement of Business</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">27. Filing of particulars.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">28. Minimum capital.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">29. Penalties for breach of section 27 or 28.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part E—Membership of Companies</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">30. Constitution of membership.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">31. Right of member to attend and vote.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">32. Register of members.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">33. Inspection of register.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">34. Power to close register.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">35. Rectification of register.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">36. Register to be evidence.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">37. Liability of members.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">38. Companies ceasing to have members.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part F—Shares</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">39. Nature of shares.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">40. No par shares.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">41. Issue of shares.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">42. Payment of shares.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">43. Return of issues.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">44. Penalties for non-compliance with section 42 or 43.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">45. Meaning of payment in cash.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">46. Classification of shares.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">47. Variation of class rights.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">48. Preference and equity shares.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">49. Suspension of voting rights of preference&nbsp; shares.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">50. Votes of equity shares.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">51. Canons of construction of class rights.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">52. Numbering of shares.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">53. Issue of share certificates.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">54. Effect of share certificates.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">55. Reserve liability.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">56. Prohibited transactions in shares.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">57. Alteration of number of shares.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">58. Financial assistance for acquisition of shares.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">59. Acquisition by company of its own shares.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">60. Redemption of redeemable preference shares.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">61. Purchase by a company of its own shares.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">62. Limit on number of shares acquired.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">63. Share deals account.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">64. Modification of sections 59 to 63 in relation to authorised mutual funds.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">65. Acquisition of shares of holding company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part G—Stated Capital and Dividends</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">66. Meaning of stated capital.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">67. Reduction of stated capital.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">68. Modification of sections 66 and 67 in relation to authorised mutual funds.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">69. Meaning of "surplus".</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">70. Meaning of "income surplus".</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">71. Legality of dividend payments.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">72. Prohibition of payment of dividends by companies limited by guarantee.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">73. Declaration of dividends.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">74. Capitalisation issues and non-cash dividends.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part H—Resolutions Reducing Capital, Shares or Liability</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">75. Resolutions requiring confirmation of Court.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">76. Application for confirming order.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">77. Order confirming the resolution.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">78. Order and minute to be registered.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">79. Protection of creditors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part I—Debentures and Debenture Stock</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">80. Issue of debentures or debenture stock.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">81. Specific performance of contracts to subscribe for debentures.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">82. Documents of title to debentures.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">83. Effect of statements in debentures.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">84. Perpetual debentures.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">85. Convertible debentures.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">86. Secured or naked debentures.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">87. Meaning of "floating charge".</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">88. Powers of the Court.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">89. Payment of preferential creditors out of assets subject to a floating charge.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">90.&nbsp; Limitation of efficacy of floating charges in liquidations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">91.&nbsp; Application of sections 236 to 245.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">92. Trustees for debentureholders.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">93. Meetings of debentureholders.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">94. Re-issue of redeemed debentures.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part J—Transfer of Shares and Debentures</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">95. Restrictions on transferability of shares.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">96. Register of debentures.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">97. Restriction on transferability of debentures.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">98. Registration of transfers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">99. Transmission of shares or debentures by operation of law.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">100. Protection of beneficiaries.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">101. Certification of transfers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">102. Company''s lien on shares.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part K—Branch Registers</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">103. Power for company to keep branch registers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">104. Regulations as to branch registers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">105. Stamp duties in case of securities registered in branch registers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">106.&nbsp; Provisions as to branch registers kept in Ghana.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part L—Registration of Particulars of Charges</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">107. Registration of particulars of charges created by companies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">108. Charges to secure fluctuating amounts.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">109. Charges on property acquired.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">110.&nbsp; Existing charges.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">111.&nbsp; Duty of company to deliver particulars for registration.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">112.&nbsp; Register of particulars of charges.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">113.&nbsp; Endorsement of registration on debentures of a series.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">114.&nbsp; Entry of satisfaction on discharge.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">115.&nbsp; Rectification of register of particulars of charges.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">116.&nbsp; Registration of enforcement of security.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">117.&nbsp; Copies of charges to be kept by company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">118.&nbsp; Registration constituting notice.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part M—Registered Office, Publication of Name, and Annual Return</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">119. Registered office.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">120. Notice of situation of registered office.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">121. Publication of name of company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">122. Annual return.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part N—Accounts and Audit</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">123. Keeping of books of account.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">124. Circulation of profit and loss account, balance sheet, and reports.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">125.&nbsp; Profit and loss account.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">126.&nbsp; Balance sheet.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">127.&nbsp; Group accounts.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">128.&nbsp; Particulars of directors'' emoluments and pensions.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">129.&nbsp; Particulars of amounts due from officers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">130.&nbsp; Provisions supplemental to sections 123 to 129.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">131.&nbsp; Signing and publication of accounts.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">132.&nbsp; Directors'' report.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">133.&nbsp; Auditors'' report.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">134.&nbsp; Appointment and remuneration of auditors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">135.&nbsp; Removal of auditors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">136.&nbsp; Duties and powers of auditors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part O—Acts by or on behalf of the Company</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">137. Division of powers between general meeting and board of directors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">138.&nbsp; Delegation to committees and managing directors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">139.&nbsp; Acts of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">140.&nbsp; Acts of officers or agents.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">141.&nbsp; No constructive notice of registered documents.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">142.&nbsp; Presumption of regularity.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">143. Liability of company not affected by officer''s fraud or forgery.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">144.&nbsp; Form of contracts.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">145.&nbsp; Bills of exchange and promissory notes.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">146.&nbsp; Authentication of documents.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">147.&nbsp; Execution of deeds abroad.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">148.&nbsp; Official seal for use abroad.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part P—General Meetings and Resolutions</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">149.&nbsp; Annual general meetings.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">150.&nbsp; Extraordinary general meetings.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">151.&nbsp; Place of meetings.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">152.&nbsp; Length of notice of meetings.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">153.&nbsp; Contents of notice.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">154.&nbsp; Persons entitled to notice.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">155.&nbsp; Service of notice.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">156.&nbsp; Accidental failure to give notice.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">157. Circulation of members'' resolutions and supporting circulars.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">158.&nbsp; Circulation of members'' circulars.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">159.&nbsp; General provisions affecting sections 157 and 158.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">160.&nbsp; Attendance at meetings.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">161.&nbsp; Quorums.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">162.&nbsp; Power of Court to order meeting.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">163.&nbsp; Proxies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">164.&nbsp; Obtaining proxies by misrepresentation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">165.&nbsp; Representation of corporation at meetings.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">166.&nbsp; Chairman of meetings.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">167.&nbsp; Adjournments.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">168.&nbsp; Types of resolution.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">169.&nbsp; Amendments.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">170.&nbsp; Procedure on voting.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">171.&nbsp; Voting of joint holders.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">172&nbsp;&nbsp; Votes by persons of unsound mind.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">173.&nbsp; Date of passing of resolutions.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">174.&nbsp; Written resolutions.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">175.&nbsp; Application of sections 152 to 174 to class meetings.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">176.&nbsp; Registration of certain resolutions.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">177.&nbsp; Minutes of general meetings.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">178.&nbsp; Inspection of minute book.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part Q—Directors and Secretary</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">179. Meaning of directors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">180. Number of directors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">181. Appointment of directors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">182. Competence of directors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">183. Directors'' share qualification.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">184. Vacation of office of director.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">185. Removal of directors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">186. Restraining fraudulent persons from managing companies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">187. Substitute directors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">188. Alternate directors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">189. Presence of directors in Ghana.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">190. Secretary.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">191. Avoidance of acts in dual capacity as director and &nbsp;secretary.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">192. Executive directors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">193. Managing directors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">194. Remuneration of directors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">195. Prohibition of tax-free payments.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">196. Register of directors and secretary.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">197. Registration of particulars of directors and secretaries.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">198. Publication of names of directors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">199. Prohibition of assignment of offices.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">200. Proceedings of directors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">201. Minutes of directors'' meetings.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">202. Limitations on the powers of directors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">203. Duties of directors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">204. Exercise of directors'' powers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">205. Conflicts of duty and interest.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">206. Consent of company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">207. Contracts in which directors are interested.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">208. Directors acting professionally.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">209. Civil liabilities for breach of duty.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">210. Legal proceedings to enforce liabilities.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">211. Payments to directors for loss of office or on transfer of the company''s undertaking.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">212. Payments to directors in connection with take-over bids.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">213. Provisions supplemental to sections 211 and 212.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">214. Duties of directors in connection with sales or purchases of the company''s securities.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">215. Register of directors'' holdings.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">216. General saving of existing law relating to officers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part R—Protection Against Illegal or Oppressive Action</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">217. Injunction or declaration in the event of illegal or irregular activity.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">218.&nbsp; Remedy against oppression.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">219.&nbsp; Enquiries by the Registrar.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">220. Appointment of inspector under order of the Court.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">221. Appointment of inspector on special resolution of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">222. Power to carry investigation into the affairs of associated companies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">223.&nbsp; Production of documents and evidence.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">224.&nbsp; Inspectors'' report.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">225.&nbsp; Proceedings after investigation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">226.&nbsp; Expenses of investigations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">227. Power to require information as to persons interested in&nbsp; shares or debentures.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">228.&nbsp; Saving for legal practitioners and bankers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part S—Arrangements and Amalgamations</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">229.&nbsp; Meaning of arrangement and amalgamation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">230. Arrangement or amalgamation by sale of undertaking for securities to be distributed.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">231.&nbsp; Arrangement or amalgamation with Court approval.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">232. Powers of the Court for facilitating arrangements or amalgamations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">233.&nbsp; Information as to arrangements and amalgamations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">234. Power to acquire shares of minority on acquisition of subsidiary company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">235. Rights of minority on acquisition of subsidiary company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part T—Receivers and Managers</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">236.&nbsp; Disqualification for appointment as receiver.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">237.&nbsp; Power to appoint Official Trustee.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">238.&nbsp; Powers of receivers and managers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">239.&nbsp; Receivers and managers appointed by the Court.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">240.&nbsp; Receivers and managers appointed out of Court.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">241.&nbsp; Liabilities of receivers and managers on contracts.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">242.&nbsp; Notification that receiver or manager has been appointed.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">243. Accounts where manager appointed to enforce a floating charge.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">244. Delivery to Registrar of accounts of receivers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">245. Enforcement of receivers'' duties.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part U—Winding up</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">246. Modes of winding up.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">247. Declaration of solvency.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">248. Procedure on resolution for liquidation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">249. Statements and accounts of final financial year.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">250. Resolution for appointment and removal of liquidator.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">251. Remuneration of liquidator.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">252. Disqualification of liquidator.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">253. Status of liquidator.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">254. Cessation of directors'' powers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">255. Powers of liquidator.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">256. Books and accounts during private liquidation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">257. Liquidation account.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">258. Duty of liquidator in case of insolvency.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">259. Stay of proceedings.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">260. Dissolution of companies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">261. Dissolution without full winding up.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part V—Documents</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">262. Service of documents by company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">263. Service of documents on company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">264. Books and registers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part W—Invitations to the Public</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">265. Control of public invitations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">266. Meaning of "invitations to the public."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">267. Offers for sale deemed to be made by the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">CHAPTER III—ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO PRIVATE COMPANIES ONLY</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">268.&nbsp; Default in complying with conditions constituting a private&nbsp; company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">269.&nbsp; Documents to be annexed to the annual return of a private company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">270.&nbsp; Qualification of auditors of private companies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">271. Requisitioning extraordinary general meetings of a private company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">272. Appointment and removal of directors of private companies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">273.&nbsp; Conversion of private company to public company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">CHAPTER IV—ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO PUBLIC COMPANIES ONLY</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part A—Prospectuses and Statements in Lieu of Prospectus</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">274.&nbsp; Statement in lieu of prospectus.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">275. Prospectus on invitation to the public to acquire or dispose of securities.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">276.&nbsp; General and restricted invitations to the public.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">277.&nbsp; Certificates of exemption.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">278.&nbsp; Expert''s consent.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">279.&nbsp; Registration of prospectuses.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">280. Meaning of "approved stock exchange" and "exempted dealer".</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">281.&nbsp; Waiting period.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">282.&nbsp; Withdrawal of applications after the waiting period.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">283. Invitations in respect of securities to be dealt in on a stock exchange.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">284.&nbsp; Minimum subscription.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">285. Application of sections 275 to 279 and 281 to 284 to authorised mutual funds.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">286. Civil remedy for mis-statements or omissions in a prospectus.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">287.&nbsp; Rescission for mis-statements in a prospectus.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">288.&nbsp; Voting rights of shares offered to the public.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">289.&nbsp; Public invitations to deposit money with public companies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">290. &nbsp;Prohibition of waiver and notice clauses.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">291.&nbsp; Criminal liability for mis-statements.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">291A. Discretion of Registrar to Waive or Modify the Application of Part A of Chapter IV.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part B—Dividends and Transfers</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">292. Limitation of liability of shareholders in public companies to restore illegal dividends.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">293.&nbsp; Interim dividends.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">294. Restrictions on the transferability of securities of public companies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part C—Annual Returns and Auditors</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">295. Documents to be annexed to the annual return of a public company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">296. Qualification of auditors of public company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part D—General Meetings</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">297. Extraordinary general meetings of public companies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part E—Directors</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">298. Rotation of directors of a public company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">299. Voting for directors of a public company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">300. Cumulative voting for directors of a public company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">301. Prohibition of loans by a public company to directors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">CHAPTER V—PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO NON-GHANAIAN COMPANIES</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">302. Meaning of external company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">303. Documents to be delivered to Registrar by external company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">304.&nbsp; Returns required on alteration of registered particulars.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">305.&nbsp; Local managers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">306.&nbsp; Service on external company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">307.&nbsp; Accounts of external company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">308.&nbsp; Obligation to state name etc. of external company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">309.&nbsp; Publication of names of local managers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">310.&nbsp; Registration of particulars of charges.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">311.&nbsp; Notification of winding up of external company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">312.&nbsp; Cessation of business of external company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">313.&nbsp; Penalties and disabilities.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">314.&nbsp; Control of public invitations relating to external companies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">315.&nbsp; Control of public invitations relating to other non-Ghanaian companies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">316. Application of sections 266 and 267 to external and non-Ghanaian companies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">317. Interpretation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">CHAPTER VI— SUPPLEMENTARY</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part A—Unit Trusts and Mutual Funds</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">318. Unit trusts.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">319. Mutual funds.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part B—Miscellaneous Offences</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">320.&nbsp; Inducing persons to invest.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">321.&nbsp; Penalty for false statements.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">322.&nbsp; Penalty for improper use of "Incorporated" or " Limited".</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">323. Publication of misleading statements regarding shares or capital.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part C—Legal Proceedings</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">324. Representative actions.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">325. Costs in actions by limited companies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">326. Contribution between joint wrongdoers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">327. Power to grant relief.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part D—Administration</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">328. Registrar of companies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">329. Fees.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">330. Documents to be translated.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">331. Registration of documents.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">332. Prescribed forms.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">333. Inspection, copies and evidence of registered documents.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">334. Authentication of documents issued by Registrar or Minister.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">335.&nbsp; Enforcement of duty to make returns.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">336.&nbsp; Regulations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">337.&nbsp; Registrar''s power to obtain directions of the Court.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">338.&nbsp; Periodical reports by Registrar.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">339.&nbsp; Extension to unregistered companies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">340.&nbsp; Repeals.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">SCHEDULES</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">First Schedule—Definitions</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Second Schedule—Tables A and B</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Third Schedule—Form of Annual Return</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Fourth Schedule—Accounts</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Fifth Schedule—Auditors'' Report</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Sixth Schedule—Statement in Lieu of Prospectus</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Seventh Schedule—Prospectus</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Eighth Schedule—Fees</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Ninth Schedule—Transitional Provisions affecting Existing Companies</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Tenth Schedule—Repeals</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">THE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-NINTH</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><img src="coatofarms_small.jpg" border="0" width="108" height="89"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF GHANA</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">ENTITLED</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">THE COMPANIES CODE, 1963</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">AN ACT to codify and amend the law relating to companies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">DATE OF ASSENT: 28TH MAY, 1963</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">BE IT ENACTED&nbsp; by the President and the National Assembly in this present Parliament assembled, as follows:—</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">CHAPTER I—PRELIMINARY</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 1—Commencement.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">This Code shall come into operation on the first day of July, 1963.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 2—Interpretation.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">First Sch.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In this Code, unless the context otherwise requires, the expressions defined in the First Schedule hereto shall have the meanings assigned to them in that Schedule.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 3—Application of Act.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Except where otherwise provided, the provisions of this Code shall apply to all companies formed in Ghana, whether before&nbsp; or after the commencement of this Code, under the provisions of the Companies Ordinance, (Cap. 193) or this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Nothing in this Code contained shall affect the validity of anything done before the date when the Code comes into operation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">Ninth Sch.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) The provisions of this Code which require or may require immediate action by existing companies when this Code comes into operation are referred to in the Ninth Schedule to this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 4—Application of Particular Chapters of the Code.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) The provisions of Chapter III of this Code shall apply to private companies but not to public companies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) The provisions of Chapter IV of this Code shall apply to public companies but not to private companies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) The provisions of Chapter V of this Code shall not apply to companies formed in Ghana.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 5—Prohibition of Partnerships Exceeding 20 Members.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">No company, association or partnership consisting of more than twenty persons shall be formed for the purpose of carrying on any business that has for its object the acquisition of gain by the company, association or partnership, or by the individual members thereof, unless it is registered as a company under this Code or is formed in pursuance of some other enactment for the time being in force.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 6—Companies formed for Special Purposes.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Nothing in this Code shall abrogate or affect any special legislation relating to companies carrying on the business of banking, insurance or any other business from time to time subject to special regulation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 7—Saving of Equity and Common Law.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The rules of equity and of common law applicable to companies shall continue in force except so far as they are inconsistent with the provisions of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">CHAPTER II—PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL COMPANIES</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part A—Formation and Matters Incidental thereto</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 8—Right to form a Company.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Any one or more persons may form an incorporated company by complying with the provisions of this Code in respect of registration.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 9—Types of Company.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) An incorporated company may be either,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) a company having the liability of its members limited to the amount, if any, unpaid on the shares respectively held by them, in this Code referred to as a company limited by shares; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) a company having the liability of its members limited to such amount as the members may respectively undertake to contribute to the assets of the company in the event of its being wound up, in this Code referred to as a company limited by guarantee; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) a company not having any limit on the liability of its members, in this Code referred to as an unlimited company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) A company of any of the foregoing types may either be a private company or a public company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) A private company shall be a company which by its Regulations,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) restricts the right to transfer its shares, if any;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) limits the total number of its members and debentureholders to fifty, not including persons who are bona fide in the employment of the company and persons who, having been formerly bona fide in the employment of the company, were while in that employment, and have continued after the determination of that employment to be, members or debentureholders of the company;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) prohibits the company from making any invitation to the public to acquire any shares or debentures of the company; and</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(d) prohibits the company from making any invitation to the public to deposit money for fixed periods or payable at call, whether bearing or not bearing interest:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that where two or more persons hold one or more shares or debentures jointly, they shall, for the purposes of this subsection, be treated as a single member or debentureholder.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) Any other company shall be a public company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) A company limited by shares and an unlimited company shall be registered with shares.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(6) A company limited by guarantee shall not be registered with shares and shall not create or issue shares.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 10—Companies Limited by Guarantee.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) A company limited by guarantee may not lawfully be incorporated with the object of carrying on business for the purpose of making profits.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) If any company limited by guarantee shall carry on business for the purpose of making profits, all officers and members thereof who shall be cognisant of the fact that it is so carrying on business shall be jointly and severally liable for the payment and discharge of all the debts and liabilities of the company incurred in carrying on such business, and the company and every such officer and member shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds for every day during which it shall carry on such business.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) The total liability of the members of a company limited by guarantee to contribute to the assets of the company in the event of its being wound up shall not at any time be less than one hundred pounds.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) Subject to compliance with subsection (3) of this section, the Regulations of a company limited by guarantee may provide that members can retire or be excluded from membership thereof.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) If in breach of subsection (3) of this section the total liability of the members of any company limited by guarantee shall at any time be less than one hundred pounds, every director and member of the company who is cognisant of the breach shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 11—Conversion of Company Limited by Shares to Company Limited by Guarantee.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) A company limited by shares may be converted into a company limited by guarantee if,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) there is no unpaid liability on any of its shares;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) all its members agree in writing to such conversion and to the voluntary surrender to the company for cancellation of all the shares held by them immediately prior to the conversion;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) new Regulations, appropriate to a company limited by guarantee, are adopted by the company pursuant to section 22 of this Code;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(d) a member or members agree in writing to contribute to the assets of the company, in the event of its being wound up, to an extent not less than that prescribed by subsection (3) of section 10 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2)&nbsp; Upon delivery to the Registrar for registration of,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) a copy of the said new Regulations and of the special resolution adopting the same, and</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) a statutory declaration by a director and the secretary of the company confirming that the conditions of the immediately preceding subsection have been complied with,&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">the Registrar shall issue a new certificate of incorporation altered to meet the circumstances of the case; and as from the date mentioned in such certificate the company shall be converted into a company limited by guarantee, the shares therein shall be validly surrendered and cancelled notwithstanding the provisions of section 56 of this Code, and any members of the company who have not agreed to contribute to the assets of the company in the event of its being wound up shall cease to be members thereof:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) except in accordance with subsection (3) of section 15 of this Code, the company may not change the name under which it was registered prior to the conversion; but the omission of the word "Limited" as the last word of the name of the company after conversion shall not be regarded as a change of name;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) if the Registrar is of the opinion that the name under which the company is registered will be misleading or undesirable on its conversion to a company limited by guarantee he shall, in accordance with subsection (5) of section 15 of this Code, direct the company to change its name and shall not issue a new certificate of incorporation until the direction has been complied with or cancelled in accordance with the provisions of that subsection;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) until a new certificate of incorporation is issued the former Regulations shall continue to apply and neither the surrender of the shares of the company nor the agreement to contribute to the assets of the company in the event of its being wound up shall take effect.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) The conversion of a company pursuant to the provisions of this section shall not affect any rights or obligations of the company except as mentioned in this section or render defective any legal proceedings by or against the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 12—Duties of Promoters.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Any person who is or has been engaged or interested in the formation of a company shall be deemed to be a promoter of that company:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that a person acting in a professional capacity for persons engaged in procuring the formation of the company shall not thereby be deemed to be a promoter.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Until the formation of a company is complete and its working capital has been raised, the promoter shall,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) stand in a fiduciary relationship to the company;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) observe the utmost good faith towards the company in any transaction with it or on its behalf; and</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) compensate the company for any loss suffered by it by reason of his failure so to do.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) A promoter who acquires any property or information in circumstances in which it was his duty as a fiduciary to acquire it on behalf of the company shall account to the company for such property and for any profit which he may have made from the use of such property or information.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) Any transaction between a promoter and the company may be rescinded by the company unless, after full disclosure of all material facts known to the promoter, the transaction shall have been entered into or ratified on behalf of the company,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) if all the company''s directors are independent of the promoter, by the company''s board of directors; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) by all the members of the company; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) by the company at a general meeting at which neither the promoter nor the holders of any shares in which he is beneficially interested shall have voted on the resolution to enter into or ratify that transaction.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) No period of limitation shall apply to any proceedings brought by a company to enforce any of its rights under this section; but in any such proceedings the Court may relieve a promoter in whole or in part and on such terms as it thinks fit from liability hereunder if in all the circumstances, including lapse of time, the Court thinks it equitable so to do.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 13—Pre-incorporation Contracts.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Any contract or other transaction purporting to be entered into by a company prior to its formation or by any person on behalf of the company prior to its formation may be ratified by the company after its formation; and thereupon the company shall become bound by and entitled to the benefit thereof as if it had been in existence at the date of such contract or other transaction and had been a party thereto.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Prior to ratification by a company the person or persons who purported to act in the name or on behalf of the company shall, in the absence of express agreement to the contrary, be personally bound by the contract or other transaction and shall be entitled to the benefit thereof.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 14—Formation of Companies.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">After the commencement of this Code a company shall be formed in manner following, that is to say,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) there shall be delivered to the Registrar for registration a copy of the proposed Regulations of the company complying with sections 16 to 18 of this Code;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b)&nbsp; unless, in the opinion of the Registrar,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(i) the Regulations do not comply with this Code;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(ii) the objects for which the company is being formed or the business which it is to carry on, or any of them are unlawful;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(iii) any of the subscribers to the Regulations is an infant or of unsound mind; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(iv) any of the directors named in the Regulations is under section 182 of this Code, incompetent to be appointed a director,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">the Registrar shall register the said Regulations;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) upon registration of the Regulations, the Registrar shall certify under his seal that the company is incorporated and, in the case of a limited company, that the liability of its members is limited;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(d) from the date of registration mentioned in the certificate of incorporation, the company shall be a body corporate by the name contained in the Regulations and, subject as provided in sections 27 and 28 of this Code, be capable forthwith of exercising all the functions of an incorporated company;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(e) the Registrar shall insert a notice in the Gazette stating the issue of such certificate and the terms thereof;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(f) the certificate of incorporation, or a copy thereof, certified as correct under the hand of the Registrar, or the Gazette containing the notice referred to in paragraph (e) of this section, shall be conclusive evidence that the company has been duly registered and incorporated under this Code and no proceedings shall be brought in any Court to cancel or annul such registration:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that nothing in this paragraph contained shall prejudice the institution of proceedings to wind up the company in accordance with section 247 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 15—Names of Companies.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) The last word of the name of a company limited by shares shall be "Limited":</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that an existing company limited by shares which has been licensed under section 15 of the Companies Ordinance (Cap. 193), to dispense with the word "Limited" shall retain the right to such dispensation until the expiration of six months after the commencement of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) No company shall be registered by a name which, in the opinion of the Registrar, is misleading or undesirable.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) A company may, by special resolution and with the approval of the Registrar signified in writing, change its name.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) If, through inadvertence or otherwise, a company on its first registration or on its registration by a new name is registered by a name which, in the opinion of the Registrar, is misleading or undesirable, the company may change its name with the sanction of the Registrar, and if the Registrar shall so direct within six months of its being registered by that name, shall change it within a period of six weeks from the date of the direction or such longer period as the Registrar may think fit to allow.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) If the Registrar is of the opinion that by reason of any change in the objects of, or the nature of the business carried on by a company the name under which it is registered is misleading or undesirable, the Registrar may direct such company to change its name and the company shall change its name within six weeks of such direction, unless within that time it shall have lodged an appeal to the Court against such direction.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(6) The Court shall, thereupon, either cancel or confirm such direction and its decision shall be final and conclusive; and if the direction shall be confirmed, the company shall change its name within six weeks of such confirmation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(7) If a company makes default in complying with a direction under either of the three immediately preceding subsections it and any director of the company who is cognisant of the default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds for every day during which the default continues.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(8) Where a company changes its name under this section the Registrar shall enter the new name on the register in place of the former name, and shall issue a certificate of incorporation altered to meet the circumstances of the case.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(9) Any alteration so made shall be advertised by the Registrar in the Gazette and in one newspaper published in Ghana and circulating in the district in which the registered office of the company is situated.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(10) A certificate or an advertisement in the Gazette under this section shall be conclusive evidence of the alteration to which it relates.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(11) A change of name by a company shall not affect any rights or obligations of the company or render defective any legal proceedings by or against the company, and any legal proceedings that might have been continued or commenced against it by its former name may be continued or commenced against it by its new name.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(12) The Registrar may, on written application and on payment of the prescribed fee, reserve a name pending registration of a company or a change of name by a company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(13) Any such reservation shall be for such period as the Registrar shall think fit not exceeding two months and during the period of reservation no other company shall be registered under the reserved name or under any other name which in the opinion of the Registrar is too like the reserved name.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part B—The Company''s Regulations</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 16—Contents of Regulations.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) This section shall apply to any company registered after the commencement of this Code and to an existing company which, pursuant to section 19 of this Code, adopts Regulations in lieu of its memorandum and articles of association.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) The Regulations of a company shall state,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) the name of the company, with "Limited" as the last word of the name in the case of a company limited by shares;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) the nature of the business or businesses which the company is authorised to carry on, or if the company is not formed for the purpose of carrying on a business, the nature of the object or objects for which it is established;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) that the company has, for the furtherance of its authorised businesses or objects, all the powers of a natural person of full capacity except in so far as such powers are expressly excluded by the Regulations;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(d) the names of the first directors of the company;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(e) that the powers of the directors are limited in accordance with section 202 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) The Regulations of a company limited by shares or by guarantee shall also state that the liability of its members is limited.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) In the case of a company having shares the Regulations shall also state the number of shares with which the company is to be registered.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">Second Sch.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) In the case of a company limited by guarantee the Regulations shall also,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) contain a regulation in the terms of regulation 3 of Table B in the Second Schedule to this Code, with such modifications as the Registrar shall allow, stating that the income and property of the company shall be applied solely towards the promotion of its objects, and that no portion thereof shall be paid or transferred directly or indirectly to the members of the company except as therein permitted;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) state that each member undertakes to contribute to the assets of the company in the event of its being wound up while he is a member or within one year after he ceases to be a member,&nbsp; for payment of the debts and liabilities of the company, and of the costs of winding up, such amount as may be required not exceeding a specified amount; and</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) state that if, upon the winding up of the company, there remains after the discharge of all its debts and liabilities any property of the company the same shall not be distributed among the members but shall be transferred to some other company limited by guarantee having objects similar to the objects of the company or applied to some charitable object, such other company or charity to be determined by the members prior to the dissolution of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(6) The Regulations may contain any other lawful provisions relating to the constitution and administration of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 17—Form of Regulations.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">Second Sch.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) In the case of a company registered after the commencement of this Code, or an existing company which, pursuant to section 19 of this Code, adopts Regulations in lieu of its memorandum and articles of association, the form of the Regulations of,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) a private company limited by shares,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) a public company limited by shares,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) a company limited by guarantee,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">shall be respectively in accordance with the forms set out in Table A Part I, Table A Part II, or Table B, in the Second Schedule to this Code or as near thereto as circumstances may admit; and the form of the Regulations of an unlimited company shall be in accordance with the form set out in Table A Part I, if a private company, or Table A Part II, if a public company, or as near thereto as circumstances may admit, but with such modifications as are necessary having regard to the fact that the liability of the members is unlimited.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) The Regulations may adopt such of the provisions of the appropriate Table as are not required, by section 16 of this Code, to be stated in the Regulations, and, in so far as the Regulations do not exclude or modify those provisions, they shall, so far as applicable, be part of the Regulations of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) The Regulations shall be printed, typewritten, or in some other legible form acceptable to the Registrar.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 18—Subscribing to Regulations.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) The Regulations of any company registered after the commencement of this Code shall be signed by one, or more subscribers in the presence of, and shall be attested by, one witness at the least.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) In the case of Regulations of a company with shares the subscribers, or each subscriber if more than one, shall write opposite to his name the number of shares he takes and the cash price payable therefor, and shall take at least one share.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) The Regulations shall not be chargeable to any stamp duty.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 19—Regulations of Existing Companies.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">Second Sch.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) An existing company may, by special resolution, adopt Regulations in the form required by this Code in lieu of its memorandum and articles of association and may adopt such of the provisions of the appropriate Table in the Second Schedule hereto as are not required, by section 16 of this Code, to be stated in the Regulations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Any reference in this Code to the Regulations of a company shall, in the case of an existing company which has not adopted Regulations in lieu of its memorandum and articles, be deemed to be a reference to its memorandum and articles of association.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) Nothing in subsection (1) of this section shall be deemed to authorise any company to alter the substance, as opposed to the form, of its Regulations except as mentioned in section 22 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 20—Prints of Tables A and B.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">Second Sch.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Where the Regulations of a company include without express repetition all or any of the provisions of Table A or B, a printed copy of the appropriate Table or, in the case of Table A, of the appropriate Part thereof shall be attached to every copy of such Regulations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 21—Effect of Regulations.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Subject to the provisions of this Code, the Regulations, when registered, shall have the effect of a contract under seal between the company and its members and officers and between the members and officers themselves whereby they agree to observe and perform the provisions of the Regulations, as altered from time to time, in so far as they relate to the company, members, or officers as such.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Where the Regulations empower any person to appoint or remove any director or other officer of the company such power shall be enforceable by that person notwithstanding that he is not a member or officer of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) In any action by any member or officer to enforce any obligation owed under the Regulations to him and any other member or officer, such member or officer shall, if any other member or officer is affected by the alleged breach of such obligation, sue in a representative capacity on behalf of himself and all other members or officers who may be affected other than any who are defendants and the provisions of section 324 of this Code shall apply.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 22—Alteration of Regulations.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">A company may, by special resolution, alter or add to its Regulations or adopt new Regulations:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) the name of the company shall not be altered except with the consent of the Registrar in accordance with section 15 of this Code;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) the number of the company''s shares may be altered in accordance with the provisions of sections 11, 57 to 63, 75 to 79, 218, or 231 of this Code but not otherwise;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) the businesses which the company is authorised to carry on or, if the company is not formed for the purpose of carrying on a business, the objects for which it is established may be altered or added to in accordance with the provisions of section 26 or 231 of this Code but not otherwise;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(d) no alteration or addition shall be made which shall conflict with any order of the Court made under section 218 of this Code;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(e) if at any time the shares of the company are divided into different classes the rights attached to any class may be altered in accordance with section 47 or 231 of this Code but not otherwise;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(f) the Regulations may restrict or exclude the company''s power to alter all or any of its Regulations or to add thereto or may impose conditions for the alteration or addition thereto, in which event the Regulations may not be altered or added to except in accordance with the provisions thereof or of section 231 of this Code;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(g) the Regulations as altered or added to shall be in accordance with the provisions of this Code and shall contain the statements and regulations required by section 16 of this Code;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(h) except in accordance with section 231 of this Code no member of the company shall be bound by an alteration made in the Regulations after the date on which he became a member, if and in so far as the alteration requires him to take more shares than the number held by him on the date on which the alteration is made or in any way increase his liability as at that date to pay money to the company, or which increases or imposes restrictions on the right to transfer the shares held by him at the date of the alteration, unless he agrees in writing, either before or after the alteration is made, to be bound thereby;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(i) no alteration shall be made which would have the effect of converting an unlimited company into a limited company or a company limited by guarantee into a company limited by shares;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(j) an alteration may be restrained or cancelled by the Court in accordance with section 217 or 218 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 23—Copies of Regulations.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) A company shall, on being so required by any member, send to him a copy of its Regulations on payment of the sum of two shillings and sixpence or such less sum as the company may prescribe.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Where an alteration is made to the Regulations every copy thereof issued after the date of the alteration and whether to a member or otherwise shall be in accordance with the alteration.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) If a company makes default in complying with this section the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable for each offence to a fine not exceeding ten pounds.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part B—The Company''s Regulations</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 24—Powers of Companies.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Except to the extent that a company''s Regulations otherwise provide, every company registered after the commencement of this Code and every existing company which, pursuant to section 19 of this Code, adopts Regulations in lieu of its memorandum and articles of association shall have, for the furtherance of its objects and of any business carried on by it and authorised in its Regulations, all the powers of a natural person of full capacity.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 25—Ultra Vires.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) A company shall not carry on any business not authorised by its Regulations and shall not exceed the powers conferred upon it by its Regulations or this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) A breach of subsection (1) of this section may be asserted in any proceedings under section 210, 218 or 247 of this Code or under subsection (4) of this section.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, no act of a company and no conveyance or transfer of property to or by a company shall be invalid by reason of the fact that such act, conveyance or transfer was not done or made for the furtherance of any of the authorised businesses of the company or that the company was otherwise exceeding its objects or powers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) On the application of,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) any member of the company, or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) the holder of any debenture secured by a floating charge over all or any of the company''s property or by the trustee for the holders of any such debentures,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">the Court may prohibit, by injunction, the doing of any act or the conveyance or transfer of any property in breach of subsection (1) of this section.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) If the transactions sought to be prohibited in any proceedings under the immediately preceding subsection are being, or are to be, performed or made pursuant to any contract to which the company is a party, the Court may, if it deems the same to be equitable and if all the parties to the contract are parties to the proceedings, set aside and prohibit the performance of such contract, and may allow to the company or to the other parties to the contract compensation for any loss or damage sustained by them by reason of the setting aside or prohibition of the performance of such contract but not compensation for loss of anticipated profits to be derived from the performance of such contract.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 26—Alteration of Authorised Businesses.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) A company may, by special resolution, alter its Regulations with respect to the businesses which it is authorised to carry on or, in the case of a company not formed for the purpose of carrying on a business, with respect to the objects for which it is established:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that if an application is made to the Court in accordance with this section for the alteration to be annulled, it shall not have effect except in so far as it is confirmed by the Court.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Within twenty-eight days of the passing of any such resolution notice thereof shall be given in the prescribed form to the holders of all debentures secured by a floating charge over any of the company''s property and to the trustees, if any, for such debenture holders.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) An application to the Court under this section shall be made within sixty days after the passing of the resolution.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) An application for the Court under this section may be made,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) by the Registrar; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) in the case of a private company, by any member or by any one to whom notice has to be given under subsection (2) of this section; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) in the case of a public company,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(i) by the holders of not less than fifteen per centum in the aggregate of the company''s issued shares or any class thereof or, if the company has no shares, by not less than fifteen per centum of the company''s members;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(ii) by the trustees for the holders of any debentures secured by a floating charge over any of the company''s property; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(iii) by the holders of not less than fifteen per centum of the company''s debentures secured by a floating charge over any of the company''s property.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) If an application to the Court is made under this section the company shall forthwith deliver to the Registrar for registration notice in the prescribed form of that fact.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(6) On an application under this section being made the Court may,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) make an order confirming the alteration in whole or in part and on such terms and conditions&nbsp; as it thinks fit;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) adjourn the proceedings in order that an arrangement may be made to the satisfaction of the Court for the purchase of the interests of dissentients; and may give such directions and make such orders as it may think expedient for facilitating and carrying into effect any such arrangement;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">and if the Court shall refuse to confirm the alteration it shall make an order annulling the alteration.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(7) The company shall within twenty-eight days of the making by the Court of any order under this section deliver an office copy thereof to the Registrar for registration.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(8) If a company makes default in giving or publishing any notice or delivering any document as required by this section, the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding ten pounds.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part D—Commencement of Business</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 27—Filing of Particulars.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) A company registered after the commencement of this Code shall not transact any business, exercise any borrowing powers, or incur any indebtedness, except such as shall be incidental to its incorporation or to obtaining subscriptions to or payment for its shares, until it has delivered to the Registrar a return in duplicate in the prescribed form giving particulars, as at the date of the return, of,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) its name;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) its authorised business, or, if the company is not formed for the purpose of carrying on a business, the nature of its objects;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) the names and any former names, addresses and business occupations of its directors and secretary, and particulars of any other directorships held by them, as provided by section 196 of this Code;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(d) the name and address of its auditor;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(e) the addresses of its registered office and principal place of business in Ghana and the number of the post office Box of its registered office;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(f) if its register of members is kept and maintained elsewhere than at the registered office of the company, the address at which it is kept;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(g) if the company has shares,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(i) the amount of its stated capital, as defined in section 66 of this Code;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(ii) the number of its authorised shares of each class;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(iii) the number of its issued shares of each class and the amount paid thereon distinguishing between the amount paid in cash and the amount paid otherwise than in cash and, in the case of a company limited by shares, the amount, if any, remaining payable thereon distinguishing between the amount presently due for payment and the amount not yet due for payment.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) If the company is limited by shares the return shall further state that the declaration referred to in subsection (1) of section 28 of this Code has been delivered to the Registrar for registration.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3)&nbsp; The return shall be signed by two directors and by the secretary of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) The Registrar shall register the said return and cause a copy thereof to be published in the Gazette.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 28—Minimum Capital.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) A company limited by shares shall not transact any business, exercise any borrowing powers or incur any debt except such as shall be incidental to its incorporation or to obtaining subscriptions to or payment for its shares until—</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) there has been paid to it for the issue of its shares consideration to the value of at least—</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(i) twenty million cedis of which at least five million cedis shall be paid in cash within section 45 of this Code in respect of a public company; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(ii) five million cedis of which at least one million cedis shall be paid in cash within the meaning of section 45 of this Code in respect of a private company”. [As substituted by the Companies Code (Amendment) Act, 1997 (Act 531) s.1].</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) the company has delivered to the Registrar for registration a declaration in the prescribed form verifying that such payments have been received.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) An existing company limited by shares shall not continue after the expiration of six months from the commencement of this Code to transact any business, exercise any borrowing powers, or incur any indebtedness unless,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) prior to the expiration of the six months and whether before or after the commencement of this Code, there shall have been paid to it for the issue of its shares consideration to the value of at least five hundred pounds of which at least one hundred pounds shall have been paid in cash within the meaning of section 45 of this Code; and</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) the company has delivered to the Registrar for registration a declaration in the prescribed form verifying that such payments have been received.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) For the purposes of this section any value attributed to the goodwill of a business or to services rendered or to be rendered to the company shall not be regarded as valuable consideration for the issue of shares.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) The declarations referred to in subsections (1) and (2) of this section shall be signed by all the directors and by the secretary of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 29—Penalties for Breach of Section 27 or 28.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) In the event of default in complying with either of the two immediately preceding sections,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds for each day during which the default continues; and</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) the rights of the company concerned under or arising out of any contract made during such time as the default continues, except such contracts as shall be incidental to obtaining subscriptions to or payments for its shares, shall not be enforceable by action or other legal proceedings:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) the company may apply to the Court for relief against the disability imposed by this paragraph of this subsection and the Court, on being satisfied that it is just and equitable to grant relief, may grant such relief either generally or as respects any particular contract and on such conditions as the Court may impose;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) nothing herein contained shall prejudice the rights of any other parties as against the company, or any other person, in respect of such contract;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) if any action or proceeding shall be commenced by any other party against the company to enforce the rights of such party in respect of such contract, nothing herein shall preclude the company from enforcing in that action or proceeding by way of counterclaim, set off, or otherwise, such rights as it may have against that party in respect of that contract.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) In the event of any default in complying with subsection (1) of section 28 of this Code then, without prejudice to the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, the subscribers to the company''s Regulations, the first directors named in such Regulations and any person who was a director at any time thereafter until paragraphs (a) and (b) of the said subsection have been complied with, shall be jointly and severally liable for the whole of the debts and liabilities of the company incurred while the company was in default, unless he proves,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) in the case of a person named as one of the first directors, that he was named without his consent; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) that he took all reasonable and practicable steps to prevent the default; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) that he honestly believed on reasonable grounds that the provisions in paragraphs (a) and (b) of the said subsection had been complied with prior to the incurring of the debt or liability.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) If there shall be any error or omission in any return or declaration delivered to the Registrar under either of the immediately preceding sections, then, without prejudice to the provisions of section 321 of this Code, the company and every signatory of the return or declaration shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part E—Membership of Companies</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 30—Constitution of Membership.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) The subscribers to the Regulations shall be deemed to be members of the company and on its registration shall be entered as members in the register of members referred to in section 32 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Every other person who agrees with the company to become a member of the company and whose name is entered in the register of members shall be a member of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) Every member shall have such rights, duties and liabilities as are by this Code and the Regulations of the company conferred and imposed upon members.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) In the case of a company with shares each member shall be a shareholder of the company and shall hold at least one share, and every holder of a share shall be a member of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) Membership of a company with shares shall continue until a valid transfer of all the shares held by the member is registered by the company, or until all such shares are transmitted by operation of law to another person or forfeited for non-payment of calls under a provision in the Regulations, or until the member dies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(6) Membership of a company limited by guarantee shall continue until the member dies, or validly retires or is excluded from membership in accordance with a provision to that effect in the Regulations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 31—Right of Member to Attend and Vote.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Subject to section 49 of this Code, every member shall, notwithstanding any provision in the Regulations, have a right to attend any general meeting of the company and to speak and vote on any resolution before the meeting:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that the company''s Regulations may provide that a member shall not be entitled to attend and vote unless all calls or other sums presently payable by him in respect of shares in the company have been paid.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 32—Register of Members.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Every company shall keep in Ghana a register of its members and enter therein the following particulars, that is to say,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) the names and addresses of the members and, in the case of a company having shares a statement of the shares held by each member distinguishing each share by a number so long as the share has a number, and of the amount paid or agreed to be considered as paid on the shares of each member and of the amount, if any, remaining payable on such shares;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) the date at which each person was entered in the register as a member;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) the date at which any person ceased to be a member.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) The entry required under paragraph (a) or (b) of subsection (1) of this section shall be made within twenty-eight days of the conclusion of the agreement with the company to become a member or, in the case of a subscriber to the Regulations, within twenty-eight days of the registration of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) The entry required under paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of this section shall be made within twenty-eight days of the date when the person concerned ceased to be a member, or , if he ceased to be a member otherwise than as a result of action by the company, within twenty-eight days of production to the company of evidence satisfactory to the company of the occurrence of the event whereby he ceased to be a member, and all entries relating to such person may be deleted from the register after the expiration of six years from the date when such person ceased to be a member.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) Where a company has more than fifty members the register shall contain an index of the names of the members in such a form as to enable the account of each member to be readily found.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) Every existing company shall, within twenty-eight days of the coming into operation of this Code send to the Registrar for registration, notice in the prescribed form, of the place where its register of members is kept and every company shall within twenty-eight days of any change in the place at which its register of members is kept send notice thereof to the Registrar:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that a company shall not be bound to send notice under this subsection where the register has, at all times since it came into existence, or in the case of a register in existence at the commencement of this Code, at all times since then, been kept at the registered office of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(6) Where a company makes default in complying with this section, the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds for every day during which such default continues.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(7) The company may arrange with some other person, in this Code referred to as the registration officer, for the making up of the register to be undertaken on behalf of the company by the registration officer at his office; and if by reason of any default of the registration officer the company makes default in complying with this section or with section 33 of this Code, the registration officer shall be liable to the same penalties as if he were an officer of the company and the power of the Court under subsection (4) of section 33 of this Code shall extend to the making of orders against the registration officer and his officers and employees.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 33—Inspection of Register.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Except when the register of members is closed in accordance with the provisions of section 34 of this Code, the register and index of the names of the members of the company shall, during business hours, subject to such reasonable restrictions as the company may impose but so that not less than two hours in each day, other than Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays, shall be allowed for inspection, be open to the inspection of any member without charge and of any other person on payment of one shilling, or such less sum as the company may prescribe, for each inspection.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Any member or other person may require a copy of the register or any part thereof, on payment of two shillings and sixpence, or such less sum as the company may prescribe, for every hundred words or part thereof required to be copied; and the company shall cause any copy so required by any person to be sent to that person within a period of ten days commencing on the day next after the day on which the requirement is received by the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) If any inspection required under this section is refused, or if any copy required under this section is not sent within the proper period, the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable in respect of each offence to a fine not exceeding five pounds for every day during which the default continues.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) In the case of any such refusal or default the Court may by order compel an immediate production of the register for inspection or direct that the copies required be sent to the person requiring them.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 34—Power to Close Register.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">A company may, on giving notice by advertisement in some daily newspaper circulating in the district in which the registered office of the company is situated, close the register of members or that part thereof relating to any class of members for any time or times not exceeding in the whole thirty days in each year.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 35—Rectification of Register.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) If,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) the name of any person is, without sufficient cause, entered in or omitted from the register of members of a company, or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) default is made in entering on the register any of the particulars which, under section 32 of this Code, are required to be entered thereon,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">the person aggrieved, or any member of the company, or the company, may apply to the Court for rectification of the register.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Where an application is made under this section, the Court may either refuse the application or may order rectification of the register and payment by the company of compensation for any loss sustained by any party aggrieved.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) On an application under this section being made, the Court may decide any question relating to the title of any person who is a party to the application to have his name entered in or omitted from the register, whether the question arises between members or alleged members, or between members or alleged members on the one hand and the company on the other hand, and generally may decide any question necessary or expedient to be decided for rectification of the register.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) A company may, without application to the Court, at any time rectify any error or omission in the register of members but such a rectification shall not adversely affect any person unless he agrees to the rectification made.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 36—Register to be Evidence.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The register of members shall be prima facie evidence of any matters by this Code directed or authorised to be inserted therein.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 37—Liability of Members.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Prior to the winding up of the company, a member of a company with shares shall be liable to contribute the balance, if any, of the amount payable in respect of the shares held by him in accordance with the terms of the agreement under which the shares were issued or in accordance with a call validly made by the company pursuant to the company''s Regulations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Where any contribution has become due and payable in accordance with subsection (1) of this section or where, under the terms of any agreement with the company, a member has undertaken personal liability to make future payments in respect of shares issued to him, the liability of the member shall continue notwithstanding that the shares held by him are subsequently transferred, or forfeited under a provision to that effect in the company''s Regulations, but his liability shall cease if and when the company shall have received payment in full of all such moneys in respect of the shares.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) Subject as aforesaid no member or past member shall be liable to contribute to the assets of the company except in the event of its being wound up.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) In the event of a company being wound up every present or past member shall be liable to contribute to the assets of the company to an amount sufficient for payment of its debts and liabilities and for the costs, charges and expenses of the winding up and for the adjustment of the rights of the members and past members among themselves but subject to the following qualifications, that is to say,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) a past member shall not be liable to contribute if he has ceased to be a member for a period of one year or upwards before the commencement of the winding up;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) a past member shall not be liable to contribute unless it appears to the Court that the existing members are unable to satisfy the contributions required to be made by them in pursuance of this section;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) in the case of a company limited by shares, no contribution shall be required from any member or past member exceeding the amount, if any, unpaid on the shares in respect of which he is liable as a present or past member;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(d) in the case of a company limited by guarantee, no contribution shall be required from any member or past member exceeding the amount undertaken to be contributed by him to the assets of the company in the event of its being wound up;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(e) any sum due from the company to a member or past member, in his character of member, by way of dividends or otherwise shall not be set-off against the amount for which he is liable to contribute in accordance with this section but any such sum shall be taken into account for the purposes of final adjustment of the rights of the members and former members amongst themselves.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) For the purposes of this section the expression "past member" includes the estate of a deceased member and where any person dies after becoming liable as a member or past member such liability shall be enforceable against his estate.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(6) Except as aforesaid a member or past member of a company shall not be liable as a member or past member for any of the debts and liabilities of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 38—Companies Ceasing to have Members.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">If at any time a company ceases to have any member and it carries on business for more than six months without at least one member, every person who is a director of the company during the time that it so carries on business after those six months shall be jointly and severally liable for the payment of all the debts and liabilities of the company incurred during that period.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part F—Shares</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 39—Nature of Shares.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) The shares of any member in a company shall be personal estate and shall not be in the nature of real estate or immovable property.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) The number of shares in a company and the rights and liabilities attaching thereto shall be dependent on the terms of issue, and of the company''s Regulations as amended from time to time, so far as they are consistent with this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 40—No par shares.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) All shares created or issued after the commencement of this Code shall be shares of no par value.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) All shares issued prior to the commencement of this Code shall be deemed to be converted into shares of no par value but such conversion shall not affect the rights and liabilities attached to such shares and in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of this provision, such conversion shall not affect,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) any unpaid liability on such shares;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) the rights of the holders thereof in respect of dividends, voting or repayment on winding up or a reduction of capital.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 41—Issue of Shares.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Shares up to the total number authorised by the company''s Regulations may be issued at such times and for such consideration as the company shall determine and shall be paid for at such times as are agreed between the member and the company or as may be specified in the Regulations:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that on the winding up of the company every past and present shareholder of the company shall be liable to contribute to the assets of the company to the extent referred to in section 37 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 42—Payment of Shares.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Except on a capitalisation issue pursuant to subsection (1) of section 74 of this Code, shares shall not be issued otherwise than for valuable consideration paid or payable to the company and unless otherwise agreed shares shall be paid for in cash.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) If a company shall have agreed to accept payment for any shares otherwise than wholly in cash the company shall, within twenty-eight days after the allotment of such shares, deliver to the Registrar for registration a contract in writing duly stamped evidencing the terms of such agreement and the true value of the consideration or, if such agreement shall not have been reduced to writing, particulars in the prescribed form of such agreement duly stamped, as if it were a written agreement:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that such particulars shall not be required on a capitalisation issue of shares pursuant to subsection (1) of section 74 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) The statement in the agreement of the value of the non-cash consideration shall be prima facie evidence of the true value thereof, but when a company limited by shares is in course of being wound up under the Bodies Corporate (Official Liquidation) Act, 1963 (Act 180) the liquidator or any creditor may apply to the Court and if the Court is satisfied that the true value of such consideration was less than stated it may, in its discretion, direct that the shares shall be treated as unpaid to such an amount as its shall direct.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 43—Return of Issues.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Whenever any company makes any issue of shares, other than a re-issue of treasury shares as defined in subsection (3) of section 59 of this Code, the company shall within twenty-eight days thereafter deliver to the Registrar for registration a return in the prescribed form showing, as at the date of the return,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) the amount of its stated capital, attributable to each of the items specified in subsection (1) of section 66 of this Code;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) the number of its authorised shares of each class;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) the total number of its issued shares of each class and the amount paid thereon distinguishing between the amount paid in cash and the amount paid otherwise than in cash and, in the case of a company limited by shares, the amount, if any, remaining payable thereon distinguishing between the amount presently due for payment and the amount not yet due for payment;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(d) the total number of its treasury shares of each class:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that a company registered after the commencement of this Code shall not be required to deliver a return under this section in respect of any issue of shares made prior to the delivery to the Registrar of the return required by section 27 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 44—Penalties for Non-compliance with section 42 or 43.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">If default is made in delivering any document required under either of the two immediately preceding sections, the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds for every day during which the default continues.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 45—Meaning of Payment in Cash.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Shares shall not be deemed to have been paid for in cash except to the extent that the company shall actually have received cash therefor at the time of, or subsequently to, the agreement to issue the shares; and where shares are issued to a person who has sold or agreed to sell property or rendered or agreed to render services to the company or to persons nominated by him the amount of any payment made for the property or services shall be deducted&nbsp; from the amount of any cash payment made for the shares and only the balance, if any, shall be treated as having been paid in cash for such shares notwithstanding any exchange of cheques or other securities for money.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 46—Classification of Shares.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) The Regulations of a company may provide for different classes of shares by attaching to certain of the shares preferred, deferred or other special rights or restrictions, whether in regard to dividend, voting, repayment or otherwise.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Shares shall not be deemed to be of the same class unless they rank pari passu for all purposes.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 47—Variation of Class Rights.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) If at any time the shares of a company are divided into different classes, the rights attached to any class shall not be varied except to the extent and in the manner provided in the Regulations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) If the Regulations shall expressly forbid any variation of the rights of a class, or shall contain provisions regarding such variation and shall expressly forbid any alteration of such provisions the rights or the provisions for variation shall not be altered except with the sanction of the Court under a scheme of arrangement in accordance with section 231 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section a company may, by special resolution, alter its Regulations by inserting therein provisions regarding the variation of the rights of any class or by modifying the terms of any such provisions.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) Any such alteration shall require the prior written consent of the holders of at least three-fourths of the issued shares of each class or the sanction of a special resolution of the holders of the shares of each class and shall be deemed, for the purposes of subsections (7) to (11) of this section to be a variation of the rights of each class.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) Notwithstanding any provision in the Regulations the rights attached to any class of shares first issued after the commencement of this Code shall not be varied except with the written consent of the holders of at least three-fourths of the issued shares of that class or the sanction of a special resolution of the holders of the shares of that class.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(6) Any resolution of a company the implementation of which would have the effect of diminishing the proportion of the total votes exercisable at a general meeting of the company by the holders of the existing shares of a class or of reducing the proportion of the dividends or distributions payable at any time to the holders of the existing shares of a class, shall be deemed to be a variation of the rights of that class.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(7) If the rights of any class of shares are varied the holders of not less in the aggregate than fifteen per centum of the issued shares of that class may apply to the Court to have the variation cancelled, and where such application is made the variation shall not have effect unless and until it is confirmed by the Court.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(8) An application to the Court under subsection (7) of this section shall be made within sixty days of the date on which the variation was effected and may be made on behalf of the shareholders entitled to make the application by such one or more of their number as they may appoint in writing.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(9) If such an application is made the company shall forthwith deliver to the Registrar for registration notice in the prescribed form of that fact.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(10)The Court after hearing the applicant and any other persons who apply to the Court to be heard and appear to the Court to be interested in the application shall, if it is satisfied that the variation would unfairly prejudice the shareholders of any class, cancel the variation and shall, if not so satisfied, confirm the variation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(11) The company shall, within twenty-eight days after the making of an order by the Court on such application, deliver a copy thereof to the Registrar for registration.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(12) If a company makes default in delivering to the Registrar the notice or order referred to in subsection (9) or (11) of this section, the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding ten pounds.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 48—Preference and Equity Shares.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In this Code the expression "preference share" means a share, by whatever name designated in the Regulations, which does not entitle the holder thereof to any right to participate beyond a specified amount in any distribution whether by way of dividend, or on redemption, in a winding up, or otherwise; and any other share shall be referred to as an "equity share".</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 49—Suspension of Voting Rights of Preference Shares.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Notwithstanding section 31 of this Code, the Regulations may provide that the right of holders of preference shares to attend and vote at a general meeting of the company may be suspended upon such conditions as may be specified.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Notwithstanding any provision in the Regulations, any preference shares issued after the commencement of this Code shall carry the right to attend general meetings and on a poll thereat to at least one vote per share in the following circumstances, but not otherwise, that is to say,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) upon any resolution during such period as the preferential dividend or any part thereof remains in arrear and unpaid, such period starting from a date not more than twelve months, or such lesser period as the Regulations may provide, after the due date of the dividend; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) upon any resolution which varies the rights attached to such shares; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) upon any resolution to remove an auditor of the company or to appoint another person in place of such auditor; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(d) upon any resolution for the winding up of the company or during the winding up of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) Subject to the provisions of section 31 of this Code and to the preceding subsections of this section, any preference shares issued after the commencement of this Code shall carry the right on a poll at a general meeting of the company to one vote, and to one vote only, in respect of each share:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that any special resolution of a company increasing the number of shares of any class may validly resolve that any existing class of preference shares shall carry the right to such votes additional to one vote per share as shall be necessary in order to preserve the existing ratio which the votes exercisable by the holders of such preference shares at a general meeting of the company bear to the total votes exercisable at the meeting.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) For the purposes of subsection (2) of this section a dividend shall be deemed to be due on the date appointed in the Regulations for the payment of the dividend for any year or other period, or if no such date is appointed, upon the day immediately following the expiration of the year or other period, and whether or not such dividend shall have been earned or declared.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 50—Votes of Equity Shares.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Notwithstanding any provision in the Regulations, any equity shares issued after the date of the commencement of this Code shall, subject to the provisions of section 31 of this Code, carry the right on a poll at any general meeting of the company to one vote, and to one vote only, in respect of each share.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) For the purposes of this section any alteration of the rights of issued preference shares so that they become equity shares shall be deemed to be an issue of equity shares.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 51—Canons of Construction of Class Rights.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In construing the provisions of the company''s Regulations in respect of the rights attached to shares, the following canons of construction shall be observed, that is to say,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) unless the contrary intention appears, no dividend shall be payable on any shares unless the company shall resolve to declare such dividend;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) unless the contrary intention appears, a fixed preferential dividend payable on any class of shares shall be cumulative, that is to say, no dividend shall be payable on any shares ranking subsequent thereto until all the arrears of the fixed dividend have been paid;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) unless the contrary intention appears, in a winding up arrears of any cumulative preferential dividend whether or not earned or declared shall be payable up to the date of actual payment in the winding up;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(d) if any class of share is expressed to have a right to a preferential dividend, then, unless the contrary intention appears, such class shall have no further right to participate in dividends;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(e) if any class of share is expressed to have preferential right to payment out of the assets of the company in the event of winding up then, unless the contrary intention appears, such class shall have no further right to participate in the distribution of assets in the winding up;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(f) in determining the rights of the various classes to share in the distribution of the company''s property on a winding up no regard shall be paid, unless the contrary intention appears, to whether or not such property represents accumulated profits or surplus which would have been available for dividend while the company remained a going concern;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(g) subject as aforesaid, all shares rank equally in all respects unless the contrary intention appears.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 52—Numbering of Shares.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Each issued share in a company shall be distinguished by a definitive number:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that if and so long as all the issued shares of the company or all the issued shares therein of a particular class are fully paid, none of these shares need thereafter have a distinguishing number so long as it remains fully paid.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 53—Issue of Share Certificates.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Every company shall, within two months after the issue of any of its shares or after the registration of the transfer of any share, deliver to the registered holder thereof a certificate under the common seal of the company stating,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) the number and class of shares held by him, and the definitive numbers thereof, if any;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) the amount paid on such shares and the amount, if any, remaining unpaid;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) the name and address of the registered holder.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) If a share certificate is defaced, lost or destroyed the company, at the request of the registered holder of the shares, shall renew the same on payment of a fee not exceeding two shillings and sixpence and on such terms as to evidence and indemnity and the payment of the company''s out-of-pocket expenses of investigating evidence as the company may reasonably require.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) If default is made in complying with this section the company and any officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds, and, on application being made by any person entitled to have the certificate delivered to him, the Court may order the company to deliver the certificate and may require the company and any such officer to bear all the costs of, and incidental to, the application.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 54—Effect of Share Certificates.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Statements made in a share certificate under the common seal of the company shall be prima facie evidence of the title to the shares of the person named therein as the registered holder and of the amounts paid and payable thereon.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) If any person shall change his position to his detriment in reliance in good faith on the continued accuracy of the statements made in such certificate the company shall be estopped in favour of such person from denying the continued accuracy of such statements and shall compensate such person for any loss suffered by him in reliance thereon and which he would not have suffered had the statement been or continued to be accurate:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that nothing herein contained shall derogate from any right the company may have to be indemnified by any other person.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 55—Reserve Liability.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">A company limited by shares may, by special resolution, determine that any portion of the unpaid liability on its shares which has not already been called up shall not be capable of being called up except in the event, and for the purpose, of the company being wound up; and thereupon that portion shall not be capable of being called up except in the event and for the purpose aforesaid.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 56—Prohibited Transactions in Shares.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Except as hereinafter mentioned a company shall not,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) alter the number of its shares or the amount remaining payable thereon;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) release any shareholder or former shareholder from any liability on the shares;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) provide any financial assistance, directly or indirectly, for the subscription or purchase of its shares or the shares of its holding company;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(d) acquire, by way of purchase or otherwise, any of its issued shares or any shares of its holding company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) For the purposes of paragraph (d) of subsection (1) of this section shares shall be deemed to have been acquired by the company if they purport to be held on trust for the company notwithstanding that they are registered in the names of nominees.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) Nothing in subsection (1) of this section shall prohibit a company from voluntarily acquiring its own shares on its conversion to a company limited by guarantee in accordance with section 11 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) In the event of any breach of this section,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) if such breach is of paragraph (a) or (b) of subsection (1) of this section, the purported alteration or release shall be void and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) if such breach is of paragraph (c) or (d) of subsection (1) of this section then,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(i) the transaction concerned shall, except in favour of a bona fide purchaser or seller of shares without knowledge of the breach, be voidable by the company and any payment made by the company in respect thereof shall be immediately repayable with interest at the rate of five per centum per annum, or such higher rate as the Court may think fit to order,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(ii) whether or not such transaction is avoided, every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or twice the amount of any provision or payment made by the company in respect of such transaction, whichever is the greater.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 57—Alteration of Number of Shares.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) A company may, by alteration of its Regulations,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) increase the number of its shares by creating new shares;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) reduce the number of its shares by cancelling shares which have not been taken or agreed to be taken by any person or by consolidating its existing shares, whether issued or not, into a smaller number of shares.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) On any consolidation of shares the amounts paid, and any unpaid liability thereon, and any fixed sum by way of dividend or repayment to which such shares were entitled shall be consolidated likewise.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 58—Financial Assistance for Acquisition of Shares.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Nothing in section 56 of this Code shall be deemed to prohibit any of the following transactions, namely,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) the payment of commission or brokerage to any person in consideration of his subscribing or agreeing to subscribe or procuring or agreeing to procure subscriptions for any shares in the company provided that the payment of commission or brokerage is authorised by the Regulations and does not exceed ten per centum of the price at which the shares are issued or such lesser rate as may be specified in the Regulations;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) where the lending of money is part of the ordinary business of the company, the lending of money in the ordinary course of business notwithstanding that such money may be used for the subscription or purchase of shares in the company or its holding company;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) the provision by a company in accordance with any scheme for the time being in force of money for the purchase or subscription of shares to be held for the benefit of persons bona fide in the employment of the company or any associated company including any director holding a salaried employment in the company or any associated company;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(d) the making by a company of loans to persons, other than directors, bona fide in the employment of the company or any associated company with a view to enabling those persons to purchase or subscribe for shares to be held by themselves beneficially and not as nominees for the company or any other person;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(e) the payment by a company of a lawful dividend on its shares notwithstanding that the dividend received by a shareholder is used to discharge any liability on his shares or to repay money borrowed for the purpose of subscribing or purchasing shares.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(f) in the case of a public company some or all of whose equity shares are dealt in on an approved stock exchange or in respect of which an application has been made to an approved stock exchange for permission to deal in such shares, the payment of any commissions, fees, costs and expenses and the giving of any indemnities and warranties in each case to a person arranging or otherwise involved in an underwriting, placing or sale of securities in the company or any similar transaction thereto, provided that (i) an application for permission to deal in such securities has been or is to be made to an approved stock exchange and (ii) any such financial assistance is given in good faith in the interests of the company. [As inserted by the Companies Code (Amendment) Act, 1994 (Act 474) s. 1].</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 59—Acquisition by Company of its Own Shares.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Notwithstanding section 56 of this Code, a company may, if authorised by its Regulations and subject to compliance with sections 60 to 63 of this Code,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) create and issue preference shares which are, or at the option of the company are liable, to be redeemed on such terms and in such manner as may be provided in the Regulations and may convert existing shares, whether issued or not, into such redeemable preference shares;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) purchase its own shares;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) acquire its own shares by a voluntary transfer to it or to nominees for it:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that no shares shall be redeemed, purchased or acquired by the company so long as there is an unpaid liability thereon.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Where authorised by its Regulations a company may forfeit any shares issued with an unpaid liability for non-payment of any sums due and payable thereon.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) On redemption, purchase, acquisition or forfeiture shares shall be available for re-issue by the company unless the company by alteration of its Regulations cancels such shares; and in this Code, such shares, until re-issued or cancelled, shall be referred to as treasury shares.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) Except as provided in section 67 of this Code, no redemption, purchase, acquisition or forfeiture by the company of its shares nor the cancellation of shares so redeemed, purchased, acquired or forfeited shall reduce the stated capital of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) No voting rights shall be exercised and no dividends shall be payable on any treasury shares, and, except where otherwise stated, treasury shares shall not be treated as issued shares within the meaning of the provisions of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 60—Redemption of Redeemable Preference Shares.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Notwithstanding any provision in the Regulations, a company shall not redeem any of its redeemable preference shares except,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) out of a credit balance on the share deals account referred to in section 63 of this Code or out of transfers to that account in the manner referred to in that section from income surplus as defined in section 70 of this Code; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) out of the proceeds of a fresh issue of shares made for the purposes of the redemption not more than twelve months before the date of redemption.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) If any redeemable preference shares have become redeemable in accordance with the provisions of the Regulations and the funds of the company are sufficient to entitle it, under subsection (1) of this section, to redeem the whole of the shares due for redemption, the holder of any such shares may serve notice on the company requiring it to effect the redemption in accordance with the Regulations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) If the company shall fail to redeem such shares within twenty-eight days of the service of the notice, the shareholder who has served the notice may apply to the Court on behalf of himself and all other shareholders whose shares are due for redemption; and the Court, if satisfied that the conditions of this subsection are fulfilled, may order the company to redeem the shares and may require the company and any officer of the company who is in default to bear all the costs of, and incidental to, the application.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) The provisions of section 324 of this Code shall apply to any application to the Court under subsection (3) of this section.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 61—Purchase by a Company of its Own Shares.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Notwithstanding any provision in the Regulations, a company shall not purchase any of its own shares except on compliance with the following conditions, that is to say,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) shares shall only be purchased out of a credit balance on the share deals account referred to in section 63 of this Code or out of transfers to that account in the manner referred to in that section from income surplus as defined in section 70 of this Code;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) redeemable preference shares shall not be purchased at a price greater than the lowest price at which they are then redeemable or will be redeemable at the next date thereafter at which they are due or liable to be redeemed;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) no purchase shall be made in breach of section 62 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 62—Limit on Number of Shares Acquired.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">No transaction shall be entered into by or on behalf of a company whereby the total number of its shares, or of its shares of any one class, held by persons other than the company or its nominees becomes less than eighty-five per centum of the total number of shares, or of shares of that class, which have been issued:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) redeemable preference shares shall be disregarded for the purposes of this section;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) where, after shares of any class have been issued, the number thereof has been reduced, this section shall apply as if the number originally issued, including shares of that class cancelled before the reduction took effect, had been the number as so reduced.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 63—Share deals Account.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) When a company first redeems or purchases any of its shares, otherwise than on a redemption of redeemable preference shares out of the proceeds of a fresh issue of shares in accordance with paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section 60 of this Code, it shall open an account, to be known as the share deals account and shall credit thereto a sum not less than the amount to be expended on such redemption or purchase by transferring such sum from income surplus, as defined in section 70 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) There shall be debited to the share deals account all sums which the company shall from time to time expend on the redemption or purchase of any of its shares, otherwise than on a redemption of redeemable preference shares out of the proceeds of a fresh issue of shares in accordance with the said paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section 60 of this Code, and to such account shall be credited the net price or the value of the consideration received by the company on the re-issue of any of its treasury shares.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) If at any time the total amount to be debited to the share deals account under subsection (2) of this section exceeds the amount credited thereto in accordance with subsections (1) and (2) of this section, an amount equal to such excess shall be transferred to the credit of such account from income surplus, as defined in section 70 of this Code, and no purchase or redemption, otherwise than a redemption of redeemable preference shares out of the proceeds of a fresh issue of shares in accordance with the said paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section 60 of this Code, shall be made by the company unless its income surplus is sufficient to enable such transfer to be made.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) No amount shall be debited or credited to the share deals account, otherwise than in accordance with the foregoing subsections of this section, except on a transfer to stated capital in accordance with section 66 of this Code or under an order of the Court under section 77 or 231 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) A true copy of the share deals account, showing the class and number of shares involved in each transaction and the price paid or received therefor, shall be kept in a separate book at the registered office of the company and shall during business hours, subject to such reasonable restrictions as the company''s Regulations may impose but so that not less than two hours in each day, other than a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday, be allowed for inspection, be open to the inspection of any member without charge and of any other person on payment of two shillings and sixpence, or such less sum as the company may prescribe, for each inspection.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(6) Any member or other person shall be entitled to be furnished, within ten days after he has made a request in that behalf to the company, with a copy of the share deals account or any part thereof at a charge not exceeding one shilling for every hundred words or part thereof.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(7) If any inspection required under subsection (5) of this section is refused or if any copy required to be sent under subsection (6) of this section is not sent within the proper time, the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds for every day during which the default continues, and the Court may by order compel an immediate inspection or furnishing of a copy, as the case may be.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 64—Modification of Sections 59 to 63 in Relation to Authorised Mutual Funds.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In relation to any company which is for the time being an authorised mutual fund within the meaning of section 319 of this Code, any of the provisions of sections 59 to 63 of this Code may be waived or modified by order of the Registrar in accordance with the provisions of the said section 319.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 65—Acquisition of Shares of holding Company.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Notwithstanding section 56 of this Code, a company which is a subsidiary may acquire shares in its holding company, where the subsidiary company is concerned as personal representative or trustee unless the holding company or any subsidiary thereof is beneficially interested otherwise than by way of security for the purposes of a transaction entered into by it in the ordinary course of a business which includes the lending of money.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) A subsidiary which is, at the commencement of this Code, a holder of shares of its holding company or a subsidiary which acquired shares in its holding company before it became a subsidiary of that holding company may continue to hold such shares but, subject to the last foregoing subsection, shall have no right to vote at meetings of the holding company or any class of shareholders thereof and shall not acquire any future shares therein except on a capitalisation issue in accordance with subsection (1) of section 74 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part G—Stated Capital and Dividends</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 66—Meaning of "Stated Capital".</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) The stated capital of a company with shares shall consist of the sum of the following items, that is to say,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) the total proceeds of every issue of shares for cash, including any amounts paid on calls made on shares issued with an unpaid liability, without any deductions for expenses or commissions;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) the total value of the consideration, as stated in the agreement, received for every issue of shares otherwise than for cash;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) the total amount which the company by special resolution shall have resolved to transfer to stated capital from surplus, as defined in section 69 of this Code, including the credit balance on the share deals account referred to in section 63 of this Code:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) paragraph (a) or (b) of this subsection shall not require the proceeds or value of the consideration received on the re-issue of treasury shares to be added to stated capital; and for this purpose, when a company having treasury shares makes an issue of shares, such issue shall, until the number of treasury shares of that class is exhausted, be deemed to be an issue of those treasury shares and not a first issue of further shares, unless the company shall otherwise determine;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) the amount of the stated capital may be reduced to the extent and in the manner provided by section 67 of this&nbsp; Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Within twenty-eight days after the raising of any stated capital, the company shall deliver to the Registrar for registration particulars in the prescribed form showing the amount so raised and the total stated capital, distinguishing between the amounts thereof attributable to each of the items specified in subsection (1) of this section.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) If there shall be any default in delivering to the Registrar the particulars required under the immediately preceding subsection, the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds for every day during which the default continues.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 67—Reduction of Stated Capital.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Notwithstanding subsection (4) of section 59 of this Code, the stated capital of a company shall be deemed to be reduced by the amount by which a redemption of redeemable preference shares is made out of the proceeds of a fresh issue of shares made for the purposes of the redemption not more than twelve months before the date of redemption.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) An unlimited company may, if authorised by its Regulations, reduce its stated capital by ordinary resolution.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) Subject as aforesaid and to section 68 of this Code a company may not reduce its stated capital except in accordance with sections 75 to 79 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 68—Modification of Sections 66 and 67 in Relation to Authorised Mutual Funds.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In relation to any company which is for the time being an authorised mutual fund within the meaning of section 319 of this Code, the two immediately preceding sections of this Code shall have effect subject to the terms of any directions made by order of the Registrar pursuant to the said section 319.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 69—Meaning of "Surplus".</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The surplus of a company with shares shall be the amount by which its assets, other than unpaid calls and other sums payable in respect of its shares and not including treasury shares, less its liabilities, as shown in its accounts prepared and audited in accordance with sections 123 to 136 of this Code, exceed its stated capital.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 70—Meaning of "Income Surplus".</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The income surplus of a company with shares shall be the surplus, as defined in section 69 of this Code, less the amounts attributable to,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) any unrealised appreciation in the value of any asset of the company, other than such an appreciation in the value of any asset as would, under normal accounting principles, be credited to profit and loss account, unless the amount of such appreciation shall have been transferred to stated capital; and</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) any balance standing to the credit of the share deals account immediately before the ascertainment of the income surplus.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 71—Legality of Dividend Payments.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Except in a winding up, a company shall not pay a dividend to its shareholders or, except in accordance with sections 75 to 79 of this Code, make any return or distribution of any of its assets to its shareholders unless,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) the company is able, after such payment, return or distribution, to pay its debt as they fall due;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) the amount or value of such payment, return or distribution does not exceed its income surplus immediately prior to the making of such payment, return or distribution.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) If any payment, return or distribution shall be made in contravention of this section,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) every director of the company who is in default shall be jointly and severally liable to restore to the company the total amount by which the payment, return or distribution contravenes this section, with interest on such amount at the rate of five per centum per annum;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) unless, within twelve months after the date of the payment, return or distribution, the total amount with interest thereon shall be restored to the company by the directors in accordance with paragraph (a) of this subsection, every shareholder shall be liable to restore to the company the amount received by him in contravention of this section;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) if the directors of the company shall make restoration to the company in accordance with paragraph (a) of this subsection they shall have a right to be indemnified by any shareholder who has received any amount knowing that it contravenes this section to the extent of the amount received by him with interest thereon at the rate of five per centum per annum.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) Any shareholder, officer or creditor of the company or the Registrar may apply to the Court for an injunction restraining a company from paying a dividend or from making a return or distribution in contravention of this section or for an order for restoration in accordance with subsection (2) of this section.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) Any application by a shareholder or creditor shall be made in a representative capacity on behalf of himself and all other shareholders or creditors, as the case may be, of the company and the provisions of section 324 of this Code shall apply.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) In relation to public companies, paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of this section shall be modified as stated in section 292 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 72—Prohibition of Payment of Dividends by Companies Limited by Guarantee.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) A company limited by guarantee shall not at any time pay any dividend or make any distribution or return of its assets to its members.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) If any payment, distribution or return shall be made in contravention of this section any member to whom it is made shall restore the same to the company with interest thereon at the rate of five per centum per annum and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 73—Declaration of Dividends.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Subject to the foregoing sections a company may by ordinary resolution declare dividends in respect of any year or other specified period, but no dividend shall exceed the amount recommended by the directors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) In relation to public companies this section shall be supplemented by section 293 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 74—Capitalisation Issues and Non-cash Dividends.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) When a company has resolved to transfer any sum from surplus to stated capital pursuant to paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section 66 of this Code, the company upon the recommendation of the directors may, by the same or any subsequent special resolution, resolve that unissued shares in the company be issued credited as fully paid to the members who would have been entitled to receive the sum had it been lawfully distributed by way of dividend and in the same proportions and so that the sum so transferred to stated capital shall be deemed to be paid, otherwise than in cash, on such shares.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Such an issue shall, in this Code, be referred to as a capitalisation issue.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) A company, upon the recommendation of the directors, may resolve that any sum standing to the credit of the company''s income surplus and which could have lawfully been distributed by way of dividend shall be applied, on behalf of the members who would have been entitled to receive the same if it had been distributed by way of dividend, in paying up amounts for the time being unpaid on any shares held by them, and such sum shall thereupon be deemed to have been paid upon a call made on such shares and shall be transferred to stated capital pursuant to paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 66 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) Any resolution of a company lawfully declaring a dividend may, upon the recommendation of the directors, direct payment wholly or partly by distribution of securities for money, or of fully paid, but not partly paid, shares or debentures of any other body corporate, or of fully paid debentures of the company of a nominal amount equal to the amount so directed to be paid.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) The directors shall give effect to any such resolution and may make such provision as they shall think fit for the case of any shares, debentures, or securities for money becoming distributable in fractions and may issue fractional certificates or, in the case of a distribution in accordance with subsection (4) of this section, but not in the case of a capitalisation issue in accordance with subsection (1) of this section, may sell the shares, debentures or securities for money represented by such fractions and distribute the net proceeds of the sale among the members otherwise entitled to such fractions in due proportions.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(6) Any allotment of shares or debentures or any payment-up of shares pursuant to such resolution may be made without obtaining the individual consents thereto of the members concerned and any transfers of shares or debentures in any other body corporate may be signed on behalf of the members to whom they are transferred by any person nominated in writing by the directors and such signature shall be effective and binding on all such members.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part H—Resolutions reducing Capital, Shares or Liability</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 75—Resolutions Requiring Confirmation of Court.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Subject to confirmation by the Court, a company limited by shares may, by special resolution,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) reduce its stated capital in any way;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) extinguish or reduce the unpaid liability on any of its shares;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) resolve to pay or return to its shareholders any of its assets which are in excess of the wants of the company;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(d) alter its Regulations by cancelling any of its shares.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) A resolution under this section shall, in this Code, be referred to as a resolution requiring confirmation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) If the resolution requiring confirmation shall vary the rights attached to any class of shares, the resolution shall not be effective unless the provisions of section 47 of this Code have been complied with.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) This section shall not be deemed to require confirmation by the Court of any transaction validly effected under any of the foregoing sections of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 76—Application for Confirming Order.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Where a company has passed a resolution requiring confirmation it may apply to the Court for an order confirming the same.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Where the resolution requiring confirmation involves either diminution of liability in respect of shares with an unpaid liability or a payment or return to any shareholders, and in any other case if the Court so directs, the following provisions shall have effect unless, having regard to the special circumstances of the case, the Court shall otherwise direct, that is to say,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) every creditor of the company who at the date fixed by the Court is entitled to any debt or claim which, if that date were the commencement of the winding up of the company, would be admissible in proof against the company, shall be entitled to oppose the confirmation;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) the Court shall settle a list of creditors so entitled to oppose, and for that purpose shall ascertain, as far as possible without requiring an application from any creditor, the names of those creditors and the nature and amount of their debts or claims, and may publish notices fixing a day or days within which creditors not entered on the list are to claim to be so entered or are to be excluded from the right of opposing the confirmation;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) where a creditor entered on the list whose debt or claim is not discharged or has not determined does not consent to the confirmation, the Court may, if it thinks fit, dispense with the consent of that creditor, on the company securing payment of his debt or claim by appropriating, as the Court may direct, the following amount, that is to say,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(i) if the company admits the full amount of the debt or claim, or , though not admitting it, is willing to provide for it, then the full amount of the debt or claim;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(ii) if the company does not admit and is not willing to provide for the full amount of the debt or claim, or if the amount is contingent or not ascertained, then an amount fixed by the Court after the like inquiry and adjudication as if the company were being wound up under the provisions of the Bodies Corporate (Official Liquidations) Act, 1963 (Act 180).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) The Court may refer the application to the Registrar who shall appoint one or more competent reporters to investigate the fairness of the resolution for reduction and to report thereon to the Court.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) The remuneration of the reporters shall be fixed by the Registrar and it and the expenses of the investigation shall be borne by the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 77—Order Confirming the Resolution.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Court, if satisfied,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) with respect to every creditor of the company who under the last foregoing section is entitled to oppose that either his consent has been obtained or his debt or claim has been discharged `or secured; and</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) that the provisions of sections 75 and 76 of this Code have been duly complied with; and</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) that the resolution requiring confirmation is fair and equitable,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">may make an order confirming the resolution on such terms and conditions as it thinks fit.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 78—Order and Minute to be Registered.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) The Registrar, upon production to him of an order of the Court confirming the resolution requiring confirmation and the delivery to him of a copy of the order and of a minute, approved by the Court, showing,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) the new stated capital of the company,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) the number of authorised and issued shares and the classes, if any, into which they are divided,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) the amount deemed to be paid and the unpaid liability if any, on such issued shares, distinguishing the amount paid in cash and the amount paid otherwise than in cash,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">shall register the order and minute and cause the particulars stated in the minute to be published in the Gazette.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) On registration of the order and minute, and not before, the resolution for reduction shall take effect.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) The Registrar shall certify under his hand the registration of the order and minute and such certificate shall be conclusive evidence that all the requirements of this Code with respect to the resolution requiring confirmation have been complied with and that the stated capital and shares of the company are such as is stated in the minute.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 79—Protection of Creditors.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) If any creditor, entitled in respect of any debt or claim to oppose the confirmation, is by reason of his ignorance of the proceedings for confirmation, or of their nature and effect with respect to his claim, not entered on the list of creditors and, after the confirmation, the company fails to pay the amount of his debt or claim, then,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) every person who was a member of the company at the date of the registration of the order and minute, shall be liable to contribute for the payment of that debt or claim, an amount not exceeding the amount which he would have been liable to contribute on the winding up of the company had that commenced immediately before the date of such registration; and</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) if the company is wound up, the Court, on the application of any such creditor and proof of his ignorance as aforesaid, may settle a list of persons so liable to contribute and make and enforce calls and orders on such persons as if they were members liable to contribute in accordance with section 37 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Nothing in subsection (1) of this section shall affect the rights of the members among themselves and, except as provided in subsection (1) of this section, a member or past member after the date of the registration of the order and minute shall not be liable in respect of any share to any call or contribution exceeding in amount the unpaid liability on such share as set out in the minute.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) If any officer of the company,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) wilfully conceals the name of any creditor entitled to oppose the confirmation; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) wilfully misrepresents the nature or amount of the debt or claim of any creditor; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) aids, abets, or is privy to any such concealment or misrepresentation as aforesaid, he shall be personally liable to pay to the creditor the amount of his debt or claim to the extent to which it is not paid by the company and shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to a fine not exceeding two hundred pounds, or to both such imprisonment and fine.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part I—Debentures and Debenture Stock</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 80—Issue of Debentures or Debenture stock.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) A company may raise loan capital by the issue of a debenture or of a series of debentures or of debenture stock.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) A debenture is a written acknowledgment of indebtedness by the company setting out the terms and conditions of the loan.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) All debentures of the same series shall rank pari passu in all respects notwithstanding that they may be issued on different dates.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) Instead of issuing debentures acknowledging separate loans to the company, the loans may be funded by the creation of debenture stock of a prescribed amount parts of which, represented by debenture stock certificates, may be issued to separate holders.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) Debenture stock shall be created by deed under the common seal of the company either in the form of a deed poll or an indenture in favour of trustees for debenture stockholders.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(6) In this Code, unless the context otherwise requires, the expression "debenture" includes "debenture stock" and the expression "debenture holder" includes "debenture stockholder".</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(7) A debenture holder shall not be a member of the company and, notwithstanding any provision in the debenture or the company''s Regulations, shall not be entitled to attend and vote at any general meeting of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 81—Specific Performance of Contracts to Subscribe for Debentures.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">A contract with a company to take up and pay for any debentures of the company may be enforced by an order for specific performance.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 82—Documents of Title to Debentures.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Every company shall, within two months after the allotment of any of its debentures or after the registration of the transfer of any debentures, deliver to the registered holder thereof the debentures or a certificate of the debenture stock under the common seal of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) If a debenture or debenture stock certificate is defaced, lost or destroyed, the company, at the request of the registered holder of the debenture, shall issue a certified copy of the debenture or renew the debenture stock certificate on payment of a fee not exceeding two shillings and sixpence and on such terms as to evidence and indemnity and the payment of the company''s out-of-pocket expenses of investigating evidence as the company may reasonably require.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) If default is made in complying with this section the company and any officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds and on application by any person entitled to have the debentures or debenture stock certificate delivered to him the Court may order the company to deliver the debenture stock certificate and may require the company and any such officer to bear all the costs of, and incidental to, the application.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 83—Effect of Statements in Debentures.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Statements made in debentures or debenture stock certificates shall be prima facie evidence of the title to the debentures of the person named therein as the registered holder and of the amounts secured thereby.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) If any person shall change his position to his detriment in reliance in good faith on the continued accuracy of any statements made in the debenture or debenture stock certificate, the company shall be estopped in favour of such person from denying the continued accuracy of such statements and shall compensate such person for any loss suffered by him in reliance thereon, and which he would not have suffered had the statement been or continued to be accurate:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that nothing in this subsection contained shall derogate from any right the company may have to be indemnified by any other person.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 84—Perpetual Debentures.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">A condition contained in any debenture or in any trust deed for securing any debentures, whether issued or executed before or after the commencement of this Code, shall not be invalid by reason of the fact that the debentures are thereby made irredeemable or redeemable only on the happening of a contingency, however remote, or on the expiration of a period however long.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 85—Convertible Debentures.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Debentures may be issued upon the terms that in lieu of redemption or repayment they may, at the option of the holder or the company, be converted into shares in the company upon such terms as are stated in the debentures.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 86—Secured or Naked Debentures.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Debentures may either be secured by a charge over the company''s property or may be unsecured by any charge.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Debentures may be secured by a fixed charge on certain of the company''s property or a floating charge over the whole or a specified part of the company''s undertaking and assets, or by both a fixed charge on certain property and a floating charge.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) A charge securing debentures shall become enforceable on the occurrence of the events specified in the debentures or the deed securing the same.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) Where any legal proceedings are brought by a debentureholder to enforce the security of a series of debentures of which he holds part, the debentureholder shall sue in a representative capacity on behalf of himself and all other debentureholders of that series, and section 324 of this Code shall apply.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) Where debentures are secured by a charge the provisions of Part L of this Chapter relating to registration of particulars of charges, shall apply.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 87—Meaning of "Floating Charge".</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) A floating charge is an equitable charge over the whole or a specified part of the company''s undertaking and assets both present and future, so however that the charge shall not preclude the company from dealing with such assets until,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) the security becomes enforceable and the holder thereof, pursuant to a power in that behalf in the debenture or the deed securing the same, appoints a receiver or manager or enters into possession of such assets; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) the Court appoints a receiver or manager of such assets on the application of the holder; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) the company goes into liquidation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) On the happening of any of such events the charge shall be deemed to crystallize and to become a fixed equitable charge on such of the company''s assets as are subject to the charge.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) If a receiver or manager is withdrawn with the consent of the chargee, or the chargee withdraws from possession, before the charge has been fully discharged, the charge shall thereupon be deemed to cease to be a fixed charge and again become a floating charge.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) A fixed charge on any property shall have priority over a floating charge affecting that property unless the terms on which the floating charge was granted prohibited the company from granting any later charge having priority over the floating charge and the person in whose favour such later charge was granted had actual notice of that prohibition at the time when the charge was granted to him.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 88—Powers of the Court.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Whenever a fixed or floating charge has become enforceable the Court shall have power to appoint a receiver and, in the case of a floating charge, a receiver and manager of the assets subject to the charge.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) In the case of a floating charge, the Court may, notwithstanding that the charge has not become enforceable, appoint a receiver or manager if satisfied that the security of the debenture holder is in jeopardy.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) The security of the debenture holder shall be deemed to be in jeopardy if the Court is satisfied that events have occurred or are about to occur which render it unreasonable in the interests of the debentureholder that the company should retain power to dispose of its assets.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) A receiver or manager shall not be appointed as a means of enforcing debentures not secured by any charge.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) In this Code unless the context otherwise requires the expression "receiver" includes "manager".</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 89—Payment of Preferential Creditors out of Assets Subject to a Floating Charge.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Where a receiver is appointed on behalf of the holders of any debentures of the company secured by a floating charge or possession is taken by or on behalf of those debentureholders of any property subject to the charge, the debts which in every winding up are, under the provisions of section 41 of the Bodies Corporate (Official Liquidations) Act, 1963 (Act 180), to be paid in priority to all other debts, shall be paid out of any assets coming to the hands of the receiver or other person taking possession as aforesaid in priority to any claim for principal or interest in respect of the debentures.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) If the receiver or such other person taking possession as aforesaid shall make any repayment in respect of the debenture before discharging all debts having priority in accordance with subsection (1) of this section, he shall be personally liable to discharge such debts to the extent of the repayment made by him.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) The periods of time mentioned in the provisions referred to in section 41 of the Bodies Corporate (Official Liquidations) Act, 1963 (Act 180), shall be reckoned from the date of the appointment of the receiver or possession being taken, as the case may be.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) Any payments made under this section shall be recouped as far as may be out of the assets of the company available for payment of general creditors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 90—Limitation of Efficacy of Floating Charges in Liquidations.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">If the winding up of the company commences within twelve months of the creation of a floating charge on the undertaking or property of the company such charge shall, unless it is proved that the company was solvent immediately after the creation of the charge, be invalid except to the amount of any cash paid to the company at the time of, or subsequently to, the creation of the charge and in consideration for the charge, together with interest on that amount at the rate of five per centum per annum.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 91—Application of Sections 236 to 245.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The provisions of Part T of this Chapter shall apply to, and on the appointment of any receiver by or on behalf of the debentureholders.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 92—Trustees for Debentureholders.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Whether or not debentures are secured by a charge over the company''s property they may be secured by a trust deed appointing trustees for the debentureholders.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) It shall be the duty of such trustees to safeguard the rights of the debentureholders and, on behalf of and for the benefit of the debentureholders, to exercise the rights, powers, and discretion conferred upon them by the trust deed.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) Charges securing the debentures may be created in favour of the debentureholders by vesting them in the trustees.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) Any provision contained in a trust deed or in any contract with the holders of debentures secured by a trust deed shall be void in so far as it would have the effect of exempting a trustee thereof from, or indemnifying him against, liability for any breach of trust or failure to show the degree of care and diligence required of him as trustee having regard to the powers, authorities or discretion conferred on him by the trust deed:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to invalidate any release otherwise validly given in respect of anything done or omitted to be done by a trustee on the agreement to such release, of a majority of not less than three-fourths in value of the debentureholders present in person, or where proxies are permitted, by proxy at a meeting summoned for the purpose.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) Notwithstanding any provisions in the debentures or trust deed the Court may, on the application of any debentureholder or of the Registrar, remove any trustee and appoint another in his place if satisfied that such trustee has interests which conflict or may conflict with those of the debentureholders or that for any reason it is undesirable that such trustee should continue to act:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that where any such application is made by a debentureholder the Court, if it thinks fit, may order the applicant to give security for the payment of the costs of the trustee and may direct that the application shall be heard in chambers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(6) When a trustee dies or retires, the Registrar, at any time prior to the appointment of another trustee in his place in accordance with any provision to that effect in the trust deed, may appoint another trustee in his place.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 93—Meetings of Debentureholders.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) The terms of any debentures or trust deed may provide for the convening of general meetings of the debentureholders and for the passing, at such meetings, of resolutions binding on all the holders of the debentures of the same class.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Whether or not the debentures or trust deed contain such provisions as are referred to in subsection (1) of this section, the Registrar may at any time direct a meeting of the debentureholders of any class to be held and conducted in such manner as the Registrar thinks fit, to consider any matters which he or the trustees, if any, shall bring before the meeting, and may give such ancillary or consequential direction as he shall think fit.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 94—Re-issue of Redeemed Debentures.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Where, either before or after the commencement of this Code, a company has redeemed any debenture previously issued, the company may, subject to subsection (5) of this section, re-issue the same.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Such re-issue may be made either by re-issuing the same debenture or by issuing another in its place.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) On re-issue the person entitled to the debenture shall have the same priority as if the debenture had never been redeemed.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) The re-issue of a redeemed debenture shall be treated as the issue of a new debenture for the purposes of stamp duty but not for any other purpose including any provision limiting the amount or number of debentures to be issued:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that any person lending money on the security of any re-issued debenture which appears to be duly stamped may give the debenture in evidence in any proceedings without payment of the stamp duty or any penalty unless he had notice, or but for his negligence, might have discovered that the debenture was not duly stamped, but in any such case the company shall be liable to pay the proper stamp duty and penalty.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) Nothing herein contained shall entitle a company to re-issue a redeemed debenture if it has manifested its intention that the debenture shall be cancelled or if re-issue is forbidden by any provision in the company''s Regulations or in the debenture, trust deed or other contract entered into by the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(6) Where a company has deposited any of its debentures to secure advances from time to time on current account or otherwise, the debentures shall not be deemed to have been redeemed by reason of the account of the company having ceased to be in debit while the debentures remained so deposited.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part J—Transfer of Shares and Debentures</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 95—Restrictions on Transferability of Shares.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Except as expressly provided in the company''s Regulations shares shall be transferable without restriction by a written transfer in common form.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Subject to section 294 of this Code, the company''s Regulations may impose restrictions of any nature whatsoever on the transferability of shares, including power for the directors to refuse to register any transfer and provisions for compulsory acquisition or rights of first refusal in favour of other members or officers of the company:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that no restriction shall be imposed on the transferability of any shares after the same have been issued unless the holders thereof shall consent in writing.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section a company may refuse to register a transfer of shares to any person who is an infant or to any one found by a competent court in Ghana to be or a person of unsound mind.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 96—Register of Debentures.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) A company which issues or has issued debentures shall maintain a register of the holders thereof.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Subject to the provisions of Part K of this chapter, the register of debentureholders shall be kept and maintained at the same address as that at which the register of members is kept and to such register of debentureholders all the provisions of sections 32 to 36 of this Code shall, mutatis mutandis, apply, including subsection (5) of section 32 regarding the giving of notice to the Registrar of the place where the register is kept.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 97—Restrictions on Transferability of Debentures.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Except as expressly provided in the terms of any debentures, debentures shall be transferable without restriction by a written transfer in common form and so that the transferee shall be entitled to the debenture and to the moneys secured thereby without regard to any equities, set-off, or cross claim between the company and the original or any intermediate holder.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Subject to section 294 of this Code, the terms of any debenture may impose restrictions of any nature whatsoever on the transferability of debentures including power for the company to refuse to register any transfer and provisions for compulsory acquisition or rights of first refusal in favour of other debentureholders, or members or officers of the company:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that if any restriction is imposed on the right to transfer any debenture, notice of the restriction shall be endorsed on the face of the debenture or debenture stock certificate and, in the absence of such endorsement, the restriction shall be ineffective as regards any transferee for value whether or not he has notice of the restriction.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 98—Registration of Transfers.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Subject to sections 99 and 100 of this Code, no notice of any trust, express, implied or constructive or of any equitable, contingent, future, or partial interest in any share or debenture or any fractional part of a share or debenture shall be entered in the register of members or debentureholders or receivable by the company, and the company shall not be bound by, or be compelled in any way to recognise, any other rights in respect of a share or debenture except an absolute right to the entirety thereof in the registered holder; and accordingly until the name of the transferee is entered in the register in respect thereof the transferor shall, so far as concerns the company, be deemed to remain the holder thereof.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Regulations of a company or in any contract, it shall not be lawful for the company to register a transfer of shares or debentures unless a proper instrument of transfer duly stamped, if chargeable to stamp duty, has been delivered to the company:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that nothing herein contained shall prejudice any power of the company to register any person to whom the right to any shares or debentures has been transmitted by operation of law.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) Unless otherwise provided in the company''s Regulations or the terms of the debenture, the company may refuse to register any transfer unless it is accompanied by the appropriate share certificate, debenture, or debenture stock certificate, or the company is bound to issue a renewal or copy thereof in accordance with subsection (2) of section 53 or 82 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) Transfers may be lodged for registration either by the transferor or transferee.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) If a company refuses to register a transfer the company shall, within two months after the date on which the transfer was lodged with the company, send to the transferee and transferor notice of the refusal.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(6) If default is made in complying with subsection (2) or (5) of this section, the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 99—Transmission of Shares or Debentures by Operation of Law.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) In the case of the death of a shareholder or debentureholder the survivor or survivors where the deceased was a joint holder, and the legal personal representatives of the deceased where he was a sole holder or last survivor of joint holders, shall be the only persons recognised by the company as shareholders or debentureholders.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) A person upon whom the ownership of a share or debenture devolves by reason of his being the legal personal representative, receiver, or trustee in bankruptcy of the holder, or by operation of law may, upon such evidence being produced as the company may properly require, be registered himself as the holder of the share or debenture or transfer the same to some other person and such transfer shall be as valid as if he had been registered as a holder at the time of execution of the transfer:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that the company shall have the same right, if any, to decline registration of a transfer by such person as it would have had in the case of a transfer by the registered holder but shall have no right to refuse registration of the person himself.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;">&nbsp;</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) A person upon whom the ownership of a share or debenture devolves by reason of his being the legal personal representative, receiver, or trustee in bankruptcy of the holder, or by operation of law shall, prior to registration of himself or a transferee, be entitled to the same dividends, interest and other advantages as if he were the registered holder and, in the case of a share, to the same rights and remedies as if he were a member of the company, except that he shall not, before being registered as a member in respect of the share, be entitled to attend and vote at any meeting of the company:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that the company may at any time give notice requiring any such person to elect either to be registered himself or to transfer the share or debenture and if the notice is not complied with within ninety days, the company may thereafter suspend payment of all dividends, interest or other moneys payable in respect of the share or debenture until the requirements of the notice have been complied with.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 100—Protection of Beneficiaries.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Any person claiming to be interested in any shares or debentures or the dividends or interest thereon may protect his interest by serving on the company concerned copies of a notice and affidavit in accordance with the provisions of Order 46 rules 4 to 12 of the Rules of the High Court.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) of section 98 of this Code, the company shall enter on the register of members or debentureholders, as the case may be, the fact that such notice has been served and shall not register any transfer or make any payment or return in respect of the shares or debentures contrary to the terms of the notice until the expiration of due notice to the claimant in accordance with the provisions of that Order.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) In the event of any default by the company in complying with this section the company shall compensate any person injured thereby.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 101—Certification of Transfers.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) When the holder of any shares or of debenture stock wishes to transfer to any person part only of the shares or stock represented by one or more certificates, the instrument of transfer together with the relative certificates may be delivered to the company or to the registration officer of the company with a request to certificate the instrument of transfer.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) If a company or its registration officer endorses on an instrument of transfer the words "certificate lodged", or words to the like effect, this shall be taken as a representation to any one acting on the faith of the certification that there has been produced to, and retained by, the company or the registration officer such certificates as show a prima facie title to the shares or stock in the transferor named in the instrument of transfer but not as a representation that the certificates are genuine or that the transferor has any title to the shares or stock.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) Where any person acts on the faith of a false certification made by the company, the company shall be liable to compensate such person for any loss suffered as a result of so acting.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) Where any person acts on the faith of a false certification made by the registration officer, the company and the registration officer shall be jointly and severally liable to compensate such person for any loss suffered as a result of so acting but the company shall be entitled to be indemnified by the registration officer.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) The certification shall be deemed to be made by the company if,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) it bears the signature or initials, whether handwritten or not, of any of its officers for whose act of signing it the company is liable under the provisions of sections 139 to 143 of this Code; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) it purports to bear the signature or initials, whether handwritten or not, of any officer of the company and is issued by any officer of the company for whose act of issuing it the company is liable under the provisions of sections 139 to 143 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(6) The certification shall be deemed to be made by the registration officer if,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) it bears the signature or initials, whether handwritten or not, of the registration officer or of any officer, agent or servant of his having his authority to certificate transfers of the company''s shares or debenture stock; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) it purports to bear the signature or initials, whether handwritten or not, of the registration officer or any officer, agent or servant of his and when issued by the registration officer or any officer, agent or servant of his, him having his authority to issue certifications of transfers of the company''s shares or debenture stocks.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(7) For the purposes of subsections (5) and (6) of this section, the certification shall be deemed to be issued by any person if the instrument of transfer bearing the certification is delivered or sent by him to the transferor, transferee or any other person named in the request for certification or is despatched to any such person with a covering letter bearing his signature or initials, whether handwritten or not.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 102—Company''s Lien on Shares.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) A company may, by its Regulations, provide that it shall have a lien on any of its issued shares on which there is any unpaid liability for all moneys, whether presently payable or not, called or payable at a fixed time in respect of those shares, and such lien shall be an effective charge on such shares and any dividends payable thereon enforceable in manner provided by the Regulations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Notwithstanding any provision in the Regulations the company''s lien shall not extend to shares on which there is no unpaid liability or to any sums due from the shareholder except in respect of the unpaid liability on the shares.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part K—Branch Registers</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 103—Power for Company to Keep Branch Register.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) A company having shares may, if so authorised by its Regulations, cause to be kept in any country outside Ghana branch registers of shareholders or debentureholders residing in that country or in any other country outside Ghana, in this Code referred to as a branch register.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) The company shall give to the Registrar notice of the situation of the office where any branch register is kept, and of any change in its situation, and if it is discontinued, of its discontinuance, and any such notice shall be given within twenty-eight days of the opening of the office or of the change or discontinuance, as the case may be.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) If default is made in complying with subsection (2) of this section, the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds for every day during which the default continues.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 104—Regulations as to Branch Registers.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) A branch register shall be deemed to be a part of the company''s register of members or debentureholders, as the case may be, in this section referred to as the principal register.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) It shall be kept in, and shall be opened for inspection in, the same manner in which the principal register is, by sections 32 to 36 and 96 to 98 of this Code, required to be kept, except that the advertisement before closing the register shall be inserted in some newspaper circulating in the district where the branch register is kept.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) The company shall,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) transmit to its registered office a copy of every entry in its branch register as soon as may be after the entry is made; and</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) cause to be kept at the place where the company''s principal register is kept a duplicate of its branch register duly entered up from time to time and every such duplicate shall, for the purposes of this Code, be deemed to be a part of the principal register.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) Subject to the provisions of this section with respect to the duplicate register the shares or debentures registered in a branch register shall be distinguished from those registered in the principal register, and no transaction with respect to any shares or debentures registered in a branch register shall, during the continuance of that registration, be registered in any other register.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) A company may discontinue a branch register, and thereupon all entries in that register shall be transferred to the principal register.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(6) Subject to the provisions of this Code, a company may, by its Regulations, make such provisions as it may think fit respecting the keeping of branch registers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(7) If default is made in complying with subsection (3) of this section, the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds for each day during which the default continues; and where the principal register is kept at the office of some person other than the company, and by reason of any default of his the company fails to comply with paragraph (b) of subsection (3) of this section, he shall be liable to the same penalty as if he was an officer of the company who was in default.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 105—Stamp Duties in Case of Securities Registered in Branch Registers.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">An instrument of transfer of a share or debenture registered in a branch register, shall be deemed to be a transfer of property situate out of Ghana, and, unless executed in any part of Ghana, shall be exempt from any stamp duty chargeable in Ghana.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 106—Provisions as to Branch Registers kept in Ghana.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) If, by virtue of the law in force in any country, companies incorporated under that law have power to keep in Ghana branch registers of their shareholders or debentureholders, the Minister may, by legislative instrument, direct that sections 33 and 35 of this Code shall, subject to any modifications and adaptations specified in the instrument, apply to and in relation to any such branch registers kept in Ghana as they apply to and in relation to registers of companies within the meaning of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) The Minister may, by legislative instrument, cancel or modify any instrument made under subsection (1) of this&nbsp; section.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part L—Registration of Particulars of Charges</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 107—Registration of Particulars of Charges Created by Companies.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Every charge, other than those specified in subsection (3) of this section, created by a company after the commencement of this Code shall be void so far as any security on the company''s property, which expression includes its undertaking and the unpaid liability on its shares, is thereby conferred, unless the particulars hereinafter prescribed, together with the original or a certified copy of the instrument, if any, by which the charge is created or evidenced, are delivered in the prescribed form to the Registrar for registration within twenty-eight days after the date of its creation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) This section shall not prejudice any contract or obligation for repayment of the money thereby secured and when a charge becomes void under this section the money secured thereby shall immediately become payable notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in any contract.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) This section shall not apply to any pledge of, or possessory lien on, goods, or to any charge, by way of pledge, deposit, letter of hypothecation or trust receipt, of bills of lading, dock warrants or other documents of title to goods, or of bills of exchange, promissory notes or other negotiable securities for money.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) Subject to subsections (5) and (6) of this section the particulars requiring delivery for registration under this section shall be,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) the date of creation of the charge;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) the nature of the charge;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) the amount secured by the charge, or the maximum sum deemed to be secured thereby in accordance with the provisions of section 108 of this Code;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(d) short particulars of the property charged;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(e) the persons entitled to the charge; and</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(f) in the case of a floating charge, the nature of any restriction on the power of the company to grant further charges ranking in priority to, or pari passu with, the charge thereby created.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) Where a series of debentures containing, or giving by reference to any other instrument, any charge to the benefit of which the debenture holders are entitled pari passu, is created by the company, it shall, for the purposes of this section, be sufficient if they are delivered to the Registrar within twenty-eight days after the execution of the document containing the charge or, if there is no such document, after the execution of any debentures of the series, the following particulars, namely,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) the dates of the resolutions authorising the issue of the series and the date of the covering deed, if any, by which the security is created or defined;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) the total amount secured by the whole series;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) the names of the trustees, if any; and</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(d) the particulars specified in paragraphs (b), (d), and (f) of subsection (4) of this section,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">together with the original or a certified copy of the deed creating the charge or, if there is no such deed, of the debentures of the series.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(6) For the purposes of subsections (1) and (5) of this section a certified copy shall be a copy which has endorsed thereon a certificate to the effect that it is a true and complete copy of the original, under the seal of the company or under the hand of some person interested therein otherwise than on behalf of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(7) Where the original is in any other language the copy shall also contain a translation acceptable to the Registrar similarly certified to the effect that it is an accurate translation of the original.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(8) Nothing in this section contained shall affect the provisions of any other enactment relating to the registration of charges.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 108—Charges to Secure Fluctuating Amounts.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Where a charge, particulars of which require registration under section 107 of this Code is expressed to secure all sums due or to become due or some other uncertain or fluctuating amount, the particulars required under paragraph (c) of subsection (4) of the said section 107 shall state the maximum sum deemed to be secured by such charge, being the maximum sum covered by the stamp duty paid thereon, and such charge shall be void, so far as any security on the company''s property is thereby conferred, as respects any excess over the stated maximum:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that, if,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) additional stamp duty is subsequently paid on such charge; and</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) at any time thereafter prior to the commencement of the winding up of the company amended particulars of the said charge stating the increased maximum sum deemed to be secured thereby, together with the original instrument by which the charge was created or evidenced, are delivered to the Registrar for registration,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">then, as from the date of such delivery the charge, if otherwise valid, shall be effective to the extent of such increased maximum sum except as regards any person who, prior to the date of such delivery, has acquired any proprietary rights in, or a fixed or floating charge on, the property subject to the charge.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 109—Charges on Property Acquired.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) When a company acquires any property which is subject to a charge of such kind that particulars of it would, if it had been created by the company after the acquisition of the property, have been required to be registered under section 107 of this Code, the company shall cause particulars of the charge together with the document, if any, by which the charge was created or evidenced or a copy thereof, certified as provided in subsections (6) and (7) of section 107 of this Code, to be delivered to the Registrar for registration within twenty-eight days after the date on which the acquisition is completed.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) The particulars requiring registration under this section shall be those specified in subsection (4) of section 107 of this Code with the addition of the date of the acquisition of the property by the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) Failure to comply with this section shall not affect the validity of the charge.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 110—Existing Charges.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Where, at the date of commencement of this Code, a company has property on which there is a charge particulars of which would require registration if it had been created by the company after the date of such commencement then, unless the charge has been discharged or the property has ceased to be held by the company prior to the expiration of six months from the date of such commencement, the company shall within that time cause particulars of the charge as prescribed by section 107 of this Code to be delivered to the Registrar for registration together with the document, if any, by which the charge was created or a copy thereof, certified as required by that section.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Every existing company shall, prior to the expiration of six months from the commencement of this Code, deliver to the Registrar for registration a statutory declaration made by a director and the secretary of the company stating whether or not there are any charges on the company''s property of which particulars require to be registered under this section and confirming that particulars of any such charges have been duly delivered to the Registrar for registration.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) In the event of default in complying with subsection (2) of this section the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds for every day during which the default continues.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4)&nbsp; Failure to comply with this section shall not affect the validity of the charge.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 111—Duty of Company to Deliver Particulars for Registration.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) It shall be the duty of the company to send to the Registrar for registration the particulars required to be sent under sections 107 to 110 of this Code, but registration of the particulars of any such charge may be effected on the application of any person interested therein.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Where registration is effected on the application of some person other than the company, that person shall be entitled to recover from the company the amount of any fees payable to the Registrar on the registration.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) If any company makes default in sending to the Registrar any particulars requiring registration as aforesaid, then, unless the particulars have been duly delivered for registration by some other person, the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 112—Register of Particulars of Charges.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) The Registrar shall keep, with respect to each company, a register of the particulars duly delivered to him pursuant to sections 107 to 110 of this Code and shall enter the particulars thereon.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) The Registrar shall give a certificate under his hand of the registration of particulars of any charge registered in pursuance of such sections and the certificate shall be conclusive evidence, except in favour of the company or of any other person who shall have delivered false or incomplete particulars or an incorrect copy of any document, that the requirements of sections 107 to 110 of this Code have been complied with.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) In the case of a charge of the type referred to in section 108 of this Code the certificate shall state the maximum sum deemed to be secured by such charge.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) The original or certified copy instrument of the charge delivered with the particulars shall not be registered or retained by the Registrar.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 113—Endorsement of Registration on Debentures of a Series.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) A company shall cause to be endorsed on every debenture, forming one of a series of debentures, or certificate of debenture stock which is issued by the company and the payment of which is secured by a charge, particulars of which are registered under sections 107 to 110 of this Code,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) a copy of the certificate of registration, or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) a statement that registration has been effected and the date of registration:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that nothing in this subsection contained shall be construed as requiring to be so endorsed any debenture or certificate or debenture stock issued by the company before the charge was created or before the commencement of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Every person who knowingly authorises or permits the delivery of any debenture or certificate of debenture stock which is required to be endorsed under the provisions of this section and which is not so endorsed shall be liable to a fine not exceeding ten pounds.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) If any person shall cause to be endorsed on any debenture or certificate of debenture stock any purported copy of a certificate of registration or statement that registration has been effected which he knows to be false in any material particular or shall authorise or permit the delivery of any debenture or certificate of debenture stock bearing an endorsement purporting to be a copy of a certificate of registration or statement that registration has been effected which he knows to be false in any material particular, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or to a fine not exceeding one thousand pounds or to both such imprisonment and fine.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 114—Entry of Satisfaction on Discharge.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Registrar, on application in the prescribed form and on evidence being given to his satisfaction with respect to any charge of which particulars have been registered,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) that the debt for which the charge was given has been paid or satisfied in whole or in part, or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) that the whole or part of the property charged has been released from the charge or has ceased to form part of the company''s property or undertaking,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">shall enter on the register a memorandum of satisfaction in whole or in part, or of the fact that the whole or part of the property has been released from the charge or has ceased to be part of the company''s property, as the case may be, and where he enters a memorandum of satisfaction in whole he shall, if required, furnish the company with a copy thereof.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 115—Rectification of Register of Particulars of Charges.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) The Court, on being satisfied that the omission to register particulars of a charge within the time required by this Code or that the omission or mis-statement of any particulars with respect to any charge or in a memorandum of satisfaction was accidental, or due to inadvertence or to some other sufficient cause, or is not of a nature to prejudice the position of creditors or members of the company, or that on other grounds it is just and equitable to grant relief, may, on the application of the company or any person interested, and on such terms as seem to the Court just and expedient, order that the time for registration shall be extended, or as the case may be, that the omission or mis-statement shall be corrected.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) When the Court grants an extension of time for registration the charge shall not, unless the Court shall otherwise order, adversely affect any person who, prior to the date of actual registration of particulars of the charge, shall have acquired any proprietary rights in, or a fixed or floating charge on, the property subject to the charge, and shall be ineffective against the liquidator and any creditors of the company if the winding up of the company commences before the date of actual registration.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 116—Registration of Enforcement of Security.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) If any person obtains an order for the appointment of a receiver of any of the property of a company, or appoints such a receiver or enters into possession of such property under any powers contained in any charge, notice of the fact in the prescribed form shall, within ten days from the date of the order, appointment or entry into possession, be given to the Registrar who shall enter the fact in the register of the particulars of charges relating to such company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) If default is made in giving the notice required under subsection (1) of this section the receiver, the person entering into possession, the company, and any officer of the company who is in default shall each be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds for everyday during which the default continues.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) Where any person appointed receiver of the property of the company ceases to act as such receiver or where any person having entered into possession goes out of possession he shall, within ten days of so ceasing to act or to remain in possession, give notice to that effect in the prescribed form to the Registrar who shall enter the notice in the register of particulars of charges.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) If any person makes default in complying with the requirements of subsection (3) of this section he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds for everyday during which the default continues.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) The Registrar shall cause a copy of any notice given under this section to be published in the Gazette.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 117—Copies of Charges to be kept by Company.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Every company shall cause a copy of every instrument creating any charge of which particulars require to be registered under sections 107 to 110 of this Code to be kept at the registered office of the company and at any other office in Ghana at which its register of debenture holders is kept:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that in the case of a series of uniform debentures, a copy of one debenture of the series shall be sufficient.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Such copies shall be open to inspection during usual business hours, subject to such reasonable restrictions as the company in general meeting may impose but so that not less than two hours in each day, other than Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays shall be allowed for inspection, by any member or creditor of the company without fee and by any other person on payment of such fee, not exceeding one shilling for each inspection, as the company may prescribe.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) If the company shall make default in complying with subsection (1) of this section or if inspection of the said copies is refused, the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, and in the event of any such refusal the Court may by order compel an immediate inspection of the copies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 118—Registration Constituting Notice.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The registration of any particulars under the foregoing sections in this Part of this Code shall constitute actual notice of such particulars, but not of the contents of any document referred to therein or delivered therewith, to all persons and for all purposes as from the date of registration.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part M—Registered Office, Publication of Name and Annual Returns</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 119—Registered Office.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) A company shall, as from the date when it commences to carry on business or as from the twenty-eighth day after the date of its incorporation, whichever is the earlier, have a registered office in Ghana with a post office box to which all communications and notices to the company may be addressed.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) If default is made in complying with this section the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds for everyday during which the default continues.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 120—Notice of Situation of Registered Office.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Notice of the situation of the original registered office of the company and of the number of its post office box shall be given to the Registrar for registration in accordance with the provisions of section 27 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) If the return referred to in section 27 of this Code shall not have been delivered to the Registrar for registration within twenty-eight days after the date of the company''s incorporation, notice of the situation of the registered office and of the number of its post office box shall be given in the prescribed form to the Registrar for registration.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) Notice of any change in the situation of the registered office or of the number of its post office box shall be given in the prescribed form to the Registrar for registration within twenty-eight days of the change.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) If the notice given to the Registrar by an existing company prior to the commencement of this Code pursuant to section 52 of the Companies Ordinance (Cap. 193) shall not have given both the situation of the company''s registered office and the number of its post office box, an amended notice in the prescribed form shall be given to the Registrar for registration within twenty-eight days of the commencement of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) The inclusion in the annual return referred to in section 122 of this Code of a statement as to the situation of the company''s registered office and the number of its post office box shall not be taken to satisfy the obligation imposed by this section.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(6) If default is made in complying with subsection (2), (3) or (4) of this section the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds for every day during which the default continues.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 121—Publication of Name of Company.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Every company shall,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) paint or affix, and keep painted or affixed, its name on the outside of its registered office and of every office or place in which its business is carried on, in a conspicuous position in letters easily legible;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) have its name engraved in legible characters on its seal;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) have its name accurately mentioned in legible characters at the head of all business letters, invoices, receipts, notices, or other publications of the company, and in all negotiable instruments or orders for money, goods or services purporting to be signed or endorsed by or on behalf of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) If any company makes default in complying with subsection (1) of this section the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) If an officer of the company or any person purporting to act on its behalf uses or authorises the use of a seal purporting to be a seal of the company whereon its name is not engraved as required by subsection (1) of this section he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) If any officer of the company or other person shall sign or endorse or authorise the signing or endorsement on behalf of the company of any negotiable instrument or order for money, goods or services wherein the name of the company is not accurately mentioned in accordance with paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of this section, such person shall be personally liable to discharge the obligation thereby incurred unless it is duly discharged by the company or otherwise, but without prejudice to any right of indemnity which such person may have against the company or any other person.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) The use of the abbreviation "Ltd." instead of "Limited" shall not be deemed to be a breach of the provisions of this section.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 122—Annual Return.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Third Sch.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Every company shall, once at least in every year, deliver to the Registrar for registration an annual return including particulars of every member of the company, and in the form and relating to the matters prescribed in the Third Schedule to this Code:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that a company need not make a return under this section,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) in the year of its incorporation; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) in any year ending less than eighteen months after the date of its incorporation, so long as it makes a return within forty-two days after the first despatch to its members and debentureholders of the statements, accounts, and reports referred to in section 124 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) The annual return shall be completed and made within forty-two days of the date on which the statements, accounts, and reports of the company are sent to the members and debentureholders pursuant to section 124 of this Code, and shall be signed by a director and the secretary of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) The return shall state the position as at the date of the annual general meeting of the company or, if the holding of an annual general meeting is waived in accordance with subsection (3) of section 149 of this Code, as at the twenty-first day after the despatch of the documents referred to in subsection (2) of this section.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) The Registrar, after registering the annual return, shall cause to be published in the Gazette a notice that the annual return in respect of the company has been registered.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) In the case of a private company the annual return shall be accompanied by the documents specified in section 269 of this Code and in the case of a public company by the documents specified in section 295 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(6) If a company makes default in complying with this section, the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds for every day during which the default continues.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part N—Accounts and Audit</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 123—Keeping of Books of Account.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Every company shall cause to be kept proper books of accounts with respect to its financial position and changes therein, and with respect to the control of and accounting for all property acquired whether for resale or for use in the company''s business, and, in particular with respect to,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) all sums of money received and expended by, or on behalf of, the company and the matters in respect of which the receipt and expenditure takes place;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) all sales and purchases by the company of property, goods and services;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) the assets and liabilities of the company and the interests of the members therein.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Proper books of account shall not be deemed to be kept if there are not kept such books as are necessary to give a true and fair view of the state of the company''s affairs and to prepare proper profit and loss accounts and balance sheets in accordance with sections 125 to 131 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) The books of account may be kept either by making entries in bound volumes, or, subject to compliance with subsections (2) and (3) of section 264 of this Code, by a system of mechanical recording, or otherwise.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) The books of account shall be kept at the registered office of the company or at such other place as the directors shall think fit, and shall at all times be open to inspection by the directors, secretary and auditors of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 124—Circulation of Profit and Loss Account, Balance Sheet and Reports.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) The directors of every company shall, at some date not later than eighteen months after the incorporation of the company and subsequently once at least in every calendar year at intervals of not more than fifteen months, cause to be prepared and sent to every member of the company and to every holder of debentures of the company a copy of each of the following documents, namely,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) a profit and loss account and balance sheet prepared and signed in accordance with sections 125 to 131 of this Code;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) a report by the directors thereon in accordance with section 132 of this Code;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) a report by the auditors in accordance with section 133 of this Code:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that this subsection shall not require a copy of such documents to be sent to a member or debentureholder of whose address the company is unaware, but such person shall be entitled to be furnished on demand without charge with a copy of the last of such profit and loss accounts and balance sheets and directors'' and auditors'' reports.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Unless the holding of an annual general meeting is duly waived by the members in accordance with subsection (3) of section 149 of this Code, the documents referred to in subsection (1) of this section shall be laid before the company in general meeting.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) The Registrar, if for any reason he thinks fit so to do, may extend the periods of eighteen months and fifteen months referred to in subsection (1) of this section, and, in the circumstances referred to in subsection (11) of section 127 of this Code, may waive the requirements of this section in respect of any calendar year.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 125—Profit and Loss Account.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) The profit and loss account referred to in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 124 of this Code shall, in the case of the first account since the incorporation of the company, cover the period since the incorporation of the company and, in any other case, cover the period since the preceding account and shall be made up to a date not earlier by more than nine months from the date on which it is to be sent to members and debentureholders pursuant to section 124 of this Code:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) in the case of an existing company which has not previously prepared a profit and loss account and which was not required under its Regulations to prepare one, the first account need not cover a period commencing earlier than the date of commencement of this Code;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) the Registrar, if for any reason he thinks fit so to do, may extend the aforesaid period of nine months.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) The date to which the profit and loss account is to be made up in accordance with subsection (1) of this section is hereafter in this Code referred to as the end of the company''s financial year.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Fourth Sch. Part I.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) The profit and loss account shall, subject to subsection (5) of section 127 of this Code, relating to consolidated profit and loss accounts,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) give a true and fair view of the profit or loss of the company for the period to which it relates; and</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) comply with the requirements of sections 127 to 131 and Part I of the Fourth Schedule to this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) The Registrar may, on the application or with the consent of the company''s directors, modify in relation to that company any of the requirements in Part I of the Fourth Schedule to this Code for the purpose of adapting them to the circumstances of the company, but no such modification shall derogate from the obligation imposed by paragraph (a) of subsection (3) of this section to give a true and fair view of the profit or loss of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 126—Balance Sheet.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) The balance sheet referred to in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 124 of this Code shall give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company as at the end of the company''s financial year and shall comply with the requirements of sections 127 to 131 and Part II of the Fourth Schedule to this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) The Registrar may, on the application or with the consent of the company''s directors, modify any of the requirements in Part II of the Fourth Schedule to this Code for the purpose of adapting them to the circumstances of the company, but no such modification shall derogate from the obligation imposed by section (1) of this section to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 127—Group Accounts.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) The provisions of this section shall apply where, at the end of the company''s financial year, a company has subsidiaries.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Accounts and statements dealing, as hereinafter mentioned, with the profit or loss and the state of affairs of the company and the subsidiaries, in this Code called group accounts, shall, subject to subsection (3) of this section, be sent to the members and debentureholders of the company with the company''s own profit and loss account and balance sheet pursuant to section 124 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing subsection,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) group accounts shall not be required where the company at the end of the company''s financial year is the wholly owned subsidiary of another company;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) subject to the approval of the Registrar, group accounts need not deal with a subsidiary of the company if the company''s directors are of opinion that,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(i) it is impracticable or would be of no real value to the members and debentureholders of the company in view of the insignificance of the amount involved; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(ii) it would involve expense or delay out of proportion to the value to members and debentureholders of the company; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(iii) the result would be misleading or&nbsp; harmful to the business of the company&nbsp; or any of its subsidiaries; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(iv) the business of the holding company and that of the subsidiaries are so different that they cannot reasonably be treated as a single undertaking.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) Subject to subsection (5) of this section, the group accounts shall be consolidated accounts comprising;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) a consolidated profit and loss account dealing with the profit or loss of the company and all subsidiaries to be dealt with in the group accounts;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) a consolidated balance sheet dealing with the state of affairs of the company and those subsidiaries.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) If the company''s directors are of the opinion that it is better for the purpose of presenting the same or equivalent information in a form which may be more readily appreciated by the members and debentureholders, the group accounts may be prepared in a form other than that required by subsection (4) of this section and, in particular, may consist of more than one set of consolidated accounts dealing respectively with the company and various groups of subsidiaries or of separate accounts, dealing with each of the subsidiaries, attached to the company''s accounts or of statements expanding the information about the subsidiaries in the company''s own accounts, or any combination of those forms.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(6) The group profit and loss account may be wholly or partly incorporated in the company''s own profit and loss account and a consolidated profit and loss account dealing with the company and all or any of its subsidiaries shall be deemed to be a profit and loss account of the company complying with subsection (3) of section 125 of this Code, so long as it complies with the requirements of this section and shows how much of the consolidated profit or loss for the financial year is dealt with in the accounts of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(7) The group accounts shall give a true and fair view of the profit or loss and of the state of affairs of the company and the subsidiaries dealt with thereby as a whole, so far as concerns the interests of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Fourth Sch. Part III.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(8) The accounts of the company and the group accounts, if any, shall comply with the requirements of Part III of the Fourth Schedule to this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(9) The Registrar may, on the application or with the consent of the company''s directors, modify in relation to that company any of the requirements in Part III of the Fourth Schedule for the purpose of adapting them to the circumstances of the company but no such modification shall derogate from the obligation imposed by subsection (7) of this section to give a true and fair view of the profit or loss and the state of affairs of the company and the subsidiaries as a whole, so far as concerns the interests of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(10) A holding company''s directors shall secure that, except where in their opinion there are good reasons against it, in which case their reasons shall be stated in a note on the company''s accounts, the financial year of each of its subsidiaries shall coincide with the company''s own financial year, and the group accounts shall deal with the affairs of the holding company and the subsidiaries for the same financial year.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(11) Where it appears to the Registrar desirable for a holding company or subsidiary company to extend its financial year so that the subsidiary''s financial year may end with that of the holding company, and for that purpose to postpone the despatch of the accounts and reports referred to in section 124 of this Code from one calendar year to another, the Registrar may direct that the despatch thereof by one or other of these companies shall not be required in the earlier of the said calendar years.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(12) If the financial year of a subsidiary does not coincide with that of the holding company the group accounts shall, unless the Registrar shall otherwise direct, deal with the subsidiary''s profit or loss for, and the state of affairs as at the end of, its financial year ending last before that of the holding company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 128—Particulars of Directors'' Emoluments and Pensions.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) In a note to the accounts of a company there shall be shown, in accordance with the provisions of this section, the following information in so far as it is contained in the company''s books or papers or the company has obtained the information from the persons concerned or has the right to obtain it under section 130 of this Code, namely;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) the aggregate amount of the directors'' emoluments;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) the aggregate amount of directors'' or past directors'' pensions; and</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) the aggregate amount of any compensation to directors or past directors in respect of loss of office.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) The amount to be shown under paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of this section, shall include fees, salaries and percentages, expense allowances, contributions paid under any pension scheme, and the estimated value of benefits in kind, except benefits of such character and value as are customarily afforded to employees other than directors, paid to, or receivable by, any director in respect of his services as an officer of the company or any associated company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) The amount to be shown under paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of this section, shall include any pension paid or receivable in respect of services as a director or past director of the company, or in respect of services, while a director of the company, in connection with the management, or as an officer of the company or any associated company, whether that pension is paid to, or receivable by, the director or past director or any other person:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that it shall not be necessary to include a pension paid or receivable under a pension scheme which is such that the contributions thereunder are substantially adequate for the maintenance of the scheme.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) The amount to be shown under paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of this section, shall include any sums paid to or receivable by, a director or past director by way of compensation for the loss of office as director of the company or for the loss, while a director of the company, or in connection with his ceasing to be a director of the company, of any other office in the company or of any office in any associated company; and any sum and the value of any other valuable consideration paid or receivable in connection with retirement from office or as damages for breach of a contract of service, shall be deemed to be paid or receivable by way of compensation for loss of office.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) The amounts to be shown under each paragraph of subsection (1) of this section, shall include all relevant sums paid by, or receivable from, the company or any other person.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(6) The amounts to be shown under this section for any financial year shall be the sums receivable in respect of that year whenever paid or, in the case of sums not receivable in respect of a period, the sums paid during that year:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that any sums paid in advance of the financial year to which they are expressed to relate shall be shown in the accounts for the financial year in which they are paid.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(7) Where it is necessary to do so for the purpose of making any distinction required by this section, the directors may apportion, in such manner as they think appropriate, any payments between the matters in respect of which they have been paid or are receivable.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 129—Particulars of Amounts due from Officers.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) In a note to the accounts of a company there shall, subject to the provisions of this section, be separately shown,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) the aggregate amount of all sums due to the company or any associated company at the end of the company''s financial year from any officers of the company or any associated company;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) the maximum amount of all sums due to the company and any associated companies at any time during the company''s financial year from any officers of the company or any associated company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) If the company or any associated company shall have given a guarantee or security to any person in respect of any indebtedness of an officer of the company or any associated company, the amount guaranteed or in respect of which the security was given shall be included in the amounts to be shown under subsection (1) of this section.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) Notwithstanding subsections (1) and (2) of this section, the following shall not require to be separately shown, namely,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) any indebtedness incurred as a result of a transaction in the ordinary course of business by the company or any associated company unless the indebtedness shall not have been discharged within three months from the date of such transaction;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) any loan made in the ordinary course of business by a company, the ordinary business of which includes the lending of money;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) a loan made by the company or any associated company to any officer of the company or associated company if the loan does not exceed two thousand pounds or two per centum of the stated capital of the company&nbsp; concerned, whichever is the less, and is certified by the directors of the company concerned to have been made in accordance with any practice adopted, or about to be adopted, by that company with respect to loans to such employees:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that paragraphs (b) and (c) of this subsection shall not include in either case a loan made by a company under a guarantee from or on security provided by any associated company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) References in this section to an associated company shall be taken as referring to any company which is an associated company at the end of the company''s financial year, whether or not an associated company at the date of the transaction concerned.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) Nothing in this section shall derogate from section 301 of this Code prohibiting loans by public companies to their directors or directors of their associated companies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 130—Provisions Supplemental to Sections 123 to 129.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Any reference in this Code to a profit and loss account or balance sheet or to the accounts of a company, shall include any notes thereon and any document&nbsp; annexed thereto giving information which is required by this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Any reference in this Code to a profit and loss account shall be taken, in the case of a company limited by guarantee or other company not trading for profit, as referring to its income and expenditure account, and references to profit and loss and to a consolidated profit and loss account shall be construed accordingly.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) If any person, being a director of a company, fails to take all reasonable steps to secure compliance with the provisions of sections 123 to 129 of this Code he shall, in respect of each offence, be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine not exceeding two hundred pounds or to both such imprisonment and fine:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) in any proceedings against a person for any such offence it shall be a defence to prove that he had reasonable cause to believe, and did believe, that a competent and reliable person was charged with the duty of seeing that the said provisions were complied with and was in a position to discharge that duty; and</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) a person shall not be sentenced to imprisonment for any such offence unless, in the opinion of the Court, the offence was committed wilfully.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) It shall be the duty of every director and former director of the company to give notice in writing to the company of such matters relating to himself as may be necessary to enable the company to comply with sections 128 and 129 of this Code; and if notice is given by a director it shall be his duty to secure that it is brought up and read at the next meeting of the directors after it is given:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that it shall not be necessary for any person to give written notice of loans, guarantees or securities made or given by the company itself.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) Any person who makes default in complying with subsection (4) of this section shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(6) It shall be the duty of every company to give such written notice to any associated company relating to any transaction entered into by the first named company as may be necessary to enable the associated company to comply with sections 128 and 129 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(7) If any company shall make default in complying with subsection (6) of this section the company, and every officer of the company, who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding&nbsp; one hundred pounds.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 131—Signing and Publication of Accounts.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) A company shall not issue, publish or circulate a copy of any profit and loss account or balance sheet unless,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) it shall have attached thereto a copy of each of the other documents referred to in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of subsection (1) of section 124 of this Code and of any group accounts required under section 127 of this Code; and</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) the said accounts and balance sheet shall have been approved by the board of directors and, after such approval, signed on their behalf by two directors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) The foregoing subsection shall not prohibit the publication of,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) a fair and accurate summary of any profit and loss account and balance sheet and the auditors'' report thereon after such profit and loss account and balance sheet shall have been approved by, and signed on behalf of, the board of directors;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) a fair and accurate summary of the profit or loss figures for part of the company''s financial year.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) In the event of any breach of subsection (1) of this section the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 132—Directors'' Report.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) The report of the directors referred to in paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section 124 of this Code shall consist of a report by the directors on the state of the company''s affairs and, if the company is a holding company, on the state of affairs of the company and its subsidiaries as a group, and the amount, if any, which they recommended shall be paid by way of dividend.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) The report shall be approved by the board of directors and signed on behalf of the board by two directors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) The report shall deal, so far as is material for the appreciation of the state of the company''s affairs, with any change during the financial year in the nature of the business of the company or of the company''s associated companies, or in the classes of business in which the company has an interest, whether as member of another company or otherwise.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) The report shall contain a list of bodies corporate in relation to which either of the following conditions is fulfilled at the end of the company''s financial year, that is to say,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) the body corporate is a subsidiary of the company,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) although the body corporate is not a subsidiary of the company, the company is beneficially entitled to equity shares of the body corporate conferring the right to exercise more than twenty-five per centum of the votes exercisable at a general meeting of the body corporate.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) The list referred to in the immediately preceding subsection shall distinguish between bodies corporate falling within paragraph (a) and paragraph (b) thereof and shall state as regards each such company,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) its name;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) its country of incorporation;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) the nature of the business carried on by it.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(6) If the company is, at the end of its financial year, the subsidiary of another, the report shall also state the name and country of incorporation of its holding company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(7) If, on application being made by the directors, the Registrar is satisfied that mention of any of the matters referred to in subsections (3), (4), (5) and (6) of this section would be harmful to the business of the company or any of its associated companies, he may direct that such matter need not be mentioned in the report of a financial year.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(8) If any director fails to take all reasonable steps to comply with the provisions of this section he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 133—Auditors'' Report.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Fifth Sch.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) The report by the auditors referred to in paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section 124 of this Code, shall consist of a report, addressed to the members of the company, by an auditor or auditors duly qualified and appointed as auditors of the company in accordance with section 134 of this Code, on the books of account of the company, and on every balance sheet, profit and loss account, and all group accounts to be sent to the members and debentureholders of the company in accordance with sections 124 and 127 of this Code, and shall contain statements as to the matters mentioned in the Fifth Schedule to this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) If, in the case of any accounts, any of the particulars required to be shown under sections 128 and 129 of this Code are not shown, the report, in addition to stating that the accounts do not give all the information required by this Code, shall contain a statement giving the required particulars so far as the auditors are reasonably able to do so.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) The report shall, at all times, be open to inspection by any member or debentureholder of the company at the registered office of the company during usual business hours and shall be read at any annual general meeting of the company held within three months after it is sent to members and debentureholders in accordance with section 124 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 134—Appointment and Remuneration of Auditors.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) No person shall be appointed as auditor of a company unless,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) he shall prior to such appointment have consented in writing to be appointed; and</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) he is duly qualified in accordance with the provisions of section 270 of this Code, if appointed as auditor of a private company, or section 296 of this Code if appointed as auditor of a public company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) A partnership firm may be appointed, in the name of the firm, as auditors of a company, but, whether or not such firm is a body corporate, such appointment shall be deemed to be an appointment of such of the partners of the firm as, at the time of the appointment, are duly qualified.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) The first auditors of a company incorporated after the commencement of this Code shall be appointed within three months of the incorporation of the company or prior to the delivery to the Registrar of the particulars required under section 27 of this Code, and every existing company shall, unless it already has duly qualified auditors, appoint auditors within three months after the commencement of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) Notwithstanding any contrary provision in the company''s Regulations, auditors shall be appointed by ordinary resolution of the company and not otherwise:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) the directors may appoint the first auditors of a company and may fill any casual vacancy in the office of auditor;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) if a company shall have no auditor for a continuous period of three months the Registrar may appoint auditors.&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) Every existing auditor shall continue in office until,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) he ceases to be qualified for appointment; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) he resigns his office by notice in writing to the company; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) an ordinary resolution is duly passed at an annual general meeting in accordance with section 135 of this Code removing him from office or appointing some other person in his place as from the conclusion of the annual general meeting;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">and when any casual vacancy occurs in the office of auditor the surviving or continuing auditor or auditors, if any, may act.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(6) Notice of the names and addresses of the first auditors of a company incorporated after the commencement of this Code shall be given to the Registrar in accordance with section 27 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(7) Within three months after the commencement of this Code, every existing company shall give notice in the prescribed form to the Registrar for registration of the names and addresses of its auditors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(8) Within twenty-eight days after the occurrence of any change in the auditors of any company, the company shall give notice thereof in the prescribed form to the Registrar for registration.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(9) Every company shall give notice to the Registrar if at any time after the commencement of this Code a continuous period of three months shall have elapsed without the company having a duly qualified auditor.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(10) The remuneration of the auditors,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) in the case of an auditor appointed by the directors or by the Registrar, may be fixed by the directors or the Registrar, as the case may be, for the period expiring at the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the company;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) subject as aforesaid, shall be fixed by an ordinary resolution of the company or in such manner as the company by ordinary resolution may determine.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(11) For the purposes of the immediately preceding subsection, any sums paid or payable by the company in respect of the auditors'' expenses shall be deemed to be included in the expression "remuneration".</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(12) If any company shall commit a breach of any of the provisions of this section or describe as auditor of the company any person who has not been duly appointed, the company and any officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(13) For the purposes of subsections (6), (7) and (8) of this section, where a partnership firm is appointed auditors in the name of the firm, the firm name and business address shall be given to the Registrar and, for the purposes of such subsections a change in the constitution of the firm or of the partners therein who are auditors of the company shall not be deemed to be a change in the auditors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 135—Removal of Auditors.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) A resolution to remove any auditor or to appoint any other person in his place shall not be effective unless,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) it is passed at an annual general meeting of the company;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) written notice shall have been given to the company of the intention to move it not less than thirty-five days before the annual general meeting at which it is to be moved and on its receipt the company shall have forthwith sent a copy thereof to the auditor concerned; and</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) the company shall have given its members notice of such resolution at the same time and in the same manner as it gives notice of the meeting or, if that is not practicable, shall have given them notice thereof in the same manner as notices of meetings are required to be given not less than twenty-one days before the meeting:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) if, after notice of the intention to move the resolution is given to the company, an annual general meeting is called for a date thirty-five days or less after the notice has been given to the company, the notice shall be deemed to have been properly given for the purposes of this subsection;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) in the case of a resolution to remove any auditor appointed by the directors in accordance with subsection (4) of section 134 of this Code, or to appoint any other person in place of an auditor so appointed, this subsection shall have effect with the substitution of fourteen days for thirty-five days in paragraph (b) and seven days for twenty-one days in paragraph (c).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) The auditor concerned shall be entitled,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) to be heard on the resolution at the meeting; and</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) to send to the company a written statement, copies of which the company shall send with every notice of the annual general meeting or, if the statement is received too late, shall forthwith circulate to every person entitled under section 154 of this Code to notice of the meeting in the same manner as notices of meetings are required to be given:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that the company need not send or circulate such statement,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) if it is received by the company less than seven days before the meeting; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) if the Court, on application being made by the company or any other person who claims to be aggrieved, so orders upon being satisfied that the statement is unreasonably long or that the rights conferred by this section are being abused to secure needless publicity for defamatory matter; and the Court may order the costs of the applicant to be paid in whole or in part by the auditor notwithstanding that he is not a party to the application.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) Without prejudice to the auditor''s right to be heard orally on such resolution he may, unless the Court shall have made an order under the immediately preceding subsection, also require that the written statement by him be read to the meeting.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) If the resolution is passed it shall not take effect until the conclusion of the annual general meeting.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 136—Duties and Powers of Auditors.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) The auditors of a company while acting in performance of their duties under this Code shall not be deemed to be officers or agents of the company, but shall stand in a fiduciary relationship to the members of the company as a whole and shall act in such manner as faithful, diligent, careful, and ordinarily skilful auditors would act in the circumstances.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) No provision, whether contained in the Regulations of a company, or in any contract, or in any resolution of a company, shall relieve an auditor from the duty to act in accordance with subsection (1) of this section or relieve him from any liability incurred as a result of any breach thereof.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) Every auditor shall have a right of access at all times to the books and accounts and vouchers of the company and shall be entitled to require from the officers of the company such information and explanation as he thinks necessary for the performance of his duties.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) The auditors of a company shall be entitled to attend any general meeting of the company and to receive all notices of, and other communications relating to, any general meeting and to be heard at any general meeting on any part of the business of the meeting which concerns them as auditors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) The auditors of a company may apply to the Court for directions in relation to any matter arising in connection with the performance of their functions under this Code; and on any such application the Court may give such directions as the Court thinks just; and unless the Court shall otherwise direct, the costs of any such application shall be paid by the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(6) Before accepting appointment as auditor of a company the auditor shall communicate with the retiring auditor, if any, and invite him to make any representations and supply any information about the company which he may care to make and supply.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(7) The auditors, in addition to their statutory duties to the members under subsection (1) of this section, may, under the terms of their contract with the company, expressly or impliedly undertake obligations to the company in relation to the detection of defalcations, and advice on accounting, costing, taxation, raising of finance and other matters.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part O—Acts by or on behalf of the Company</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 137—Division of Powers between General Meeting and Board of Directors.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) A company shall act through its members in general meeting or its board of directors or through officers or agents, appointed by, or under authority derived from, the members in general meeting or the board of directors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Subject to the provisions of this Code, the respective powers of the members in general meeting and the board of directors shall be determined by the company''s Regulations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) Except as otherwise provided in the company''s Regulations, the business of the company shall be managed by the board of directors who may exercise all such powers of the company as are not by this Code or the Regulations required to be exercised by the members in general meeting.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) Unless the Regulations shall otherwise provide, the board of directors when acting within the powers conferred upon them by this Code or the Regulations shall not be bound to obey the directions or instructions of the members in general meeting.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (3) of this section, the members in general meeting may,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) act in any matter if the members of the board of directors are disqualified or are unable to act by reason of a deadlock on the board or otherwise;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) institute legal proceedings in the name and on behalf of the company if the board of directors refuse or neglect to do so;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) ratify or confirm any action taken by the board of directors; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(d) make recommendations to the board of directors regarding action to be taken by the board.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(6) No alteration of the Regulations shall invalidate any prior act of the board of directors which would have been valid if that alteration had not been made.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 138—Delegation to Committees and Managing Directors.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Unless otherwise provided in the Regulations, the board of directors,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) may exercise their powers through committees consisting of such member or members of their body as they think fit, and</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) may from time to time appoint one or more of their body to the office of managing director and may delegate all or any of their powers to such managing director.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 139—Acts of the Company.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Any act of the members in general meeting, the board of directors, or a managing director while carrying on in the usual way the business of the company shall be treated as the act of the company itself; and accordingly the company shall be criminally and civilly liable therefor to the same extent as if it were a natural person:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) the company shall not incur civil liability to any person if that person had actual knowledge at the time of the transaction in question that the general meeting, board of directors, or managing director, as the case may be, had no power to act in the matter or had acted in an irregular manner or if, having regard to his position with, or relationship to, the company, he ought to have known of the absence of power or of the irregularity;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) if in fact a business is being carried on by the company, the company shall not escape liability for acts undertaken in connection therewith merely because the business in question was not among the businesses authorised by the company''s Regulations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 140—Acts of Officers or Agents.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Except as provided in section 139 of this Code, the acts of any officer or agent of a company shall not be deemed to be acts of the company, unless,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) the company, acting through its members in general meeting, board of directors, or managing director, shall have expressly or impliedly authorised such officer or agent to act in the matter; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) the company, acting as aforesaid, shall have represented the officer or agent as having its authority to act in the matter, in which event the company shall be civilly liable to any person who has entered into the transaction in reliance on such representation, unless such person had actual knowledge that the officer or agent had no authority or unless, having regard to his position with, or relationship to, the company, he ought to have known of such absence of authority.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) The authority of an officer or agent of the company may be conferred prior to action by him or by subsequent ratification; and knowledge of action by such officer or agent and acquiescence therein by all the members for the time being entitled to attend general meetings of the company or by the directors for the time being or by the managing director for the time being, shall be equivalent to ratification by the members in general meeting, board of directors, or managing director, as the case may be.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) Nothing in this section shall derogate from the vicarious liability of a company for the acts of its employees while acting within the scope of their employment.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 141—No Constructive notice of Registered Documents.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Except as mentioned in section 118 of this Code, regarding particulars in the register of particulars of charges, a person shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any particulars, documents, or the contents of documents by reason only that such particulars or documents are registered by the Registrar or referred to in any particulars or documents so registered.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 142—Presumption of Regularity.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Any person having dealings with a company or with someone deriving title under the company shall be entitled to make the following assumptions, that is to say,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) that the company''s Regulations have been duly complied with;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) that every person described in the particulars filed with the Registrar pursuant to sections 27 and 197 of this Code as a director, managing director or secretary of the company, or represented by the company, acting through its members in general meeting, board of directors, or managing director, as an officer or agent of the company, has been duly appointed and has authority to exercise the powers and perform the duties customarily exercised or performed by a director, managing director, or secretary of a company carrying on business of the type carried on by the company or customarily exercised or performed by an officer or agent of the type concerned;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) that the secretary of the company, and every other officer or agent of the company having authority to issue documents or certified copies of documents on behalf of the company has authority to warrant the genuineness of the documents or the accuracy of the copies so issued;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(d) that a document has been duly sealed by the company if it bears what purports to be the seal of the company attested by what purports to be the signatures of two persons who, in accordance with paragraph (b) of this section, can be assumed to be a director and the secretary of the company;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">and the company and those deriving title under it shall be estopped from denying the truth of any such assumption:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) a person shall not be entitled to make such assumptions as aforesaid if he had actual knowledge to the contrary or if, having regard to his position with, or relationship to, the company, he ought to have&nbsp; known the contrary;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) a person shall not be entitled to assume that any one or more of the directors of the company have been appointed to act as a committee of the board of directors or that an&nbsp; officer or agent of the company has the company''s authority by reason only that the Company''s Regulations provide that authority to act in the matter may&nbsp; be delegated to a committee or to an officer or agent.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 143—Liability of Company not Affected by Officer''s Fraud or Forgery.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Where, in accordance with sections 139 to 142 of this Code, a company would be liable for the acts of any officer or agent, the company shall be liable notwithstanding that the officer or agent has acted fraudulently or forged a document purporting to be sealed by, or signed on behalf of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 144—Form of Contracts.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Contracts on behalf of a company may be made, varied or discharged as follows, that is to say,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) any contract which, if&nbsp; made between individuals would be by law required to be in writing under seal, or which could be varied or discharged by writing under seal only, may be made, varied or discharged, as the case may be, in writing under the common seal of the company;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) any contract which, if made between individuals would be by law required to be in writing or to be evidenced in writing by the parties to be charged therewith or which could be varied or discharged only by writing or written&nbsp; evidence signed by the parties to be charged, may be made, evidenced, varied or discharged, as the case may be, in writing signed in the name or on behalf of the company;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) any contract which, if made between individuals would be valid although made by parol only and not reduced to writing or which could be varied or discharged by parol, may be made, varied or discharged, as the case may be, by parol on behalf of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 145—Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1)&nbsp; A bill of exchange or promissory note shall be deemed to have been made, accepted, or endorsed, on behalf of a company if made, accepted&nbsp; or endorsed in the name of the company or if expressed to be made, accepted or endorsed on behalf or on account of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) The company and its successors shall be bound thereby if the company is, in accordance with sections 139 to 143 of this Code, liable for the acts of those who made, accepted or endorsed in its name or on its behalf or account; and a signature by a director or the secretary on behalf of the company shall not be deemed to be a signature by procuration for the purposes of section 23 of the Bills of Exchange Act, 1961 (Act 55).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 146—Authentication of Documents.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">A document or proceeding requiring authentication by a company may be signed on its behalf by an officer of the company and need not be under its common seal.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 147—Execution of deeds Abroad.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) A company may, by writing under its common seal, empower any person, either generally or in respect of any specified matters, as its attorney to execute deeds on its behalf in any place outside Ghana.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) A deed signed by such an attorney on behalf of the company and under his seal shall bind the company and have the same effect as if it were under its common seal.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 148—Official Seal for use Abroad.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) A company whose objects require or comprise the transaction of business in countries other than Ghana may, if authorised by its Regulations, have for use in any territory, district or place not situate in Ghana, an official seal which shall be a facsimile of the common seal of the company with the addition on its face of the name of the territory, district or place where it is to be used.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Every document to which an official seal is duly affixed shall bind the company as if it had been sealed with the common seal of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) The company may, by writing under its common seal, authorise any agent appointed for that purpose to affix the official seal to any document to which the company is a party in the territory, district or place.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) Any person dealing with such an agent in reliance on the writing conferring the authority shall be entitled to assume that the authority of the agent continues during the period, if any, mentioned in the writing or, if no period is there mentioned, then until&nbsp; that person has actual notice of the revocation or determination of the authority.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) The person affixing any such official seal shall, by writing under his hand, certify on the document to which the seal is affixed, the date on which and the place at which it is affixed.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part P—General Meetings and Resolutions</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 149—Annual General Meetings.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section, every company shall in each year hold a general meeting as its annual general meeting in addition to any other meetings in that year, and shall specify the meeting as the annual general meeting in the notices calling it; and not more than fifteen months shall elapse between the date of one annual general meeting and the next:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that, so long as a company holds its first annual general meeting within eighteen months of its incorporation, it need not hold it in the year of its incorporation or in the following year.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) The annual general meeting shall be held not earlier than twenty-one days after the company''s profit and loss account and balance sheet, any group accounts, and the reports of the directors and auditors, thereon shall have been despatched to members and debentureholders of the company in accordance with section 124 of this Code; and the said statements, accounts, and reports shall be laid before the annual general meeting for consideration.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) If the auditors of the company and all the members of the company entitled to attend and vote at any annual general meeting shall agree in writing that an annual general meeting shall be dispensed with in any year, it shall not be necessary for that company to hold an annual general meeting that year.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) If default is made in holding the annual general meeting in accordance with subsection (1) of this section, the Registrar may, of his own motion or on the application of any officer or member of the company, call, or direct the calling of, an annual general meeting of the company, and may give such ancillary or consequential directions as he thinks fit, including directions modifying or supplementing, in relation to the calling, holding and conducting of that meeting, the operation of the company''s Regulations and sections 151 to 155, 161, 163, 166, 167, and 169 to 173 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) Where a meeting held in pursuance of subsection (4) of this section is not held in the year in which occurred the default in holding the company''s annual general meeting, the meeting so held shall be treated as the annual general meeting for that year, but shall not be treated as the annual general meeting for the year in which it is held unless, at that meeting, the company resolves that it shall be so treated.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(6) Where a company so resolves, a copy of the resolution shall, within twenty-eight days of the passing thereof, be forwarded to the Registrar for registration.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(7)&nbsp; If default is made in holding an annual general meeting of the company in accordance with subsection (1) of this section, or in complying with any directions of the Registrar under subsection (4) of this section, or in complying with subsection (2), (5) or 6 of this section, the company, and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 150—Extraordinary General Meetings.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Extraordinary general meetings may be convened by the directors whenever they think fit.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) If at any time there are not within Ghana sufficient directors capable of acting to form a quorum, any director may convene a meeting.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) An extraordinary general meeting of a private company may be requisitioned in accordance with section&nbsp; 271 of this Code and an extraordinary general meeting of a public company may be requisitioned in accordance with section 297 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 151—Place of Meetings.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Unless the company''s Regulations otherwise provide, all general meetings shall be held in Ghana.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 152—Length of Notice of Meetings.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Meetings, other than adjourned meetings, shall be convened by notice in writing to the persons who are, under section 154 of this Code, entitled to receive notice of general meetings.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Subject to subsections (3) and (4) of this section, twenty-one days notice at the least or in the case of a special resolution under section 2 of the Bodies Corporate (Official Liquidations) Act, 1963 (Act 180), seven days notice exclusive of the day on which the notice is served, but inclusive of the day for which notice is given, shall be given.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) The company''s Regulations may provide for a period of notice longer, but not shorter, than that specified in subsection (2) of this section.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) A meeting of a company shall, notwithstanding that it is called by shorter notice than that specified in subsection (2) of this section, or in the company''s Regulations, be deemed to have been duly called if it is so agreed,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a)&nbsp; in the case of a meeting called as the annual general meeting, by all the members entitled to attend and vote thereat; and</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) in the case of any other meeting, by a majority in number of the members having a right to attend and vote at the meeting, being a majority holding not less than ninety-five per centum of the shares giving a right to attend and vote at the meeting or, in the case of a company limited by guarantee, by a ninety-five per centum majority in number of the members:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that where any members are entitled to vote only on some resolutions to be moved at the meeting and not on others, those members shall be taken into account for the purposes of this subsection in respect of the former resolutions and not in respect of the latter.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 153—Contents of Notice.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) The notice of a meeting shall specify the place, date and hour of the meeting, and the general nature of the business to be transacted thereat in sufficient detail to enable those to whom it is given to decide whether to attend or not; and where the meeting is to consider a special resolution shall set out the terms of the resolution.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) In the case of notice of an annual general meeting, a statement that the purpose is to transact the ordinary business of an annual general meeting shall be deemed to be a sufficient specification that the business is,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) to declare a dividend;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) consideration of the accounts and reports of the directors and auditors;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) the election of directors in the place of those retiring;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(d) the fixing of the remuneration of the auditors; and</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(e) if the requirements of sections 135 and 185 are duly complied with, the removal and election of auditors and directors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) No business may be transacted at any general meeting unless notice of it has been duly given.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) In every case in which a member is entitled, pursuant to section 163 of this Code, to appoint a proxy to attend and vote instead of him, the notice shall contain with reasonable prominence, a statement that the member has the right to appoint a proxy to attend and vote instead of him and that the proxy need not be a member of the company; and if default is made in complying with this subsection as respects any meeting, every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 154—Persons Entitled to Notice.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The following persons shall be entitled to receive notice of general meetings, namely,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) every member;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) every person upon whom the ownership of a share devolves by reason of his being a legal personal representative, receiver or a trustee in bankruptcy of a member;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) every director of the company;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(d) every auditor for the time being of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 155—Service of Notice.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Notice may be given by the company to any member or director either personally or by sending it through the post addressed to him at his registered address, or by leaving it for him with some person apparently over the age of sixteen years at such address.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Notice may be given to the joint holders of a share by giving the notice to the joint holder named first in the register of members in respect of the share.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) Notice may be given to a person upon whom ownership of a share has devolved by reason of his being a legal personal representative, receiver or trustee in bankruptcy of a member either personally or by sending it through the post addressed to him by name, or by the&nbsp; title of representatives of the deceased or receiver or trustee of the bankrupt, or by any like description, at the address, if any, supplied for the purpose by such person, or by leaving it for him with some person apparently over the age of sixteen years at such address, or, until such address has been supplied, by giving the notice in any manner in which the same might have been given if the death, receivership or bankruptcy had not occurred.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) Where a notice is sent by post, service shall be deemed to be effected by properly addressing, pre-paying, and posting a letter containing the notice and to have been effected at the expiration of forty-eight hours after the letter containing the same is posted.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) The letter need not be registered but where it is sent to an address outside Ghana it shall be despatched by air mail.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 156—Accidental Failure to give Notice.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The accidental omission to give notice of a meeting to, or the non-receipt of notice of a meeting by, any person entitled to receive notice shall not invalidate the proceedings at that meeting.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 157—Circulation of Members'' Resolutions and Supporting Circulars.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) A company shall at its own expense, on the request in writing of any member entitled to attend and vote at a general meeting, include in the notice of that general meeting notice of any resolution which may properly be moved and is intended to be moved at that meeting and, at the like request, include with such notice a statement of not more than five hundred words with respect to the matter referred to in the proposed resolution or any other business to be dealt with at that meeting:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that if the proposed resolution is not passed at that meeting the same resolution or one substantially to the same effect shall not be moved at any general meeting within three years thereafter, unless the directors shall otherwise agree or unless the request within three years is supported in writing by members of the company representing between them not less than one-twentieth of the total voting rights of all the members having at the date of the request a right to vote on the resolution to which the request relates.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) A company shall not be bound to give notice of any such resolution or to circulate such statement unless the written request or requests, signed by the member or members concerned, together with the resolution and statement, are deposited at the registered office of the company not less than six weeks before the meeting:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that if, after such documents have been deposited, a general meeting is called for a date six weeks or less thereafter, the documents shall be deemed to have been properly deposited.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 158—Circulation&nbsp; of Members Circulars.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) A company shall, at the request in writing of any member entitled to attend and vote at the general meeting but, unless the company otherwise resolves, at the expense of that member, circulate to members of the company a statement of not more than one thousand words with respect to any business to be dealt with at that meeting.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) The statement shall be circulated to members of the company in any manner permitted for service of notice of the meeting and, so far as practicable, at the same time as notice of the meeting, or, if that is impracticable, as soon as possible thereafter.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) A company shall not be bound to circulate such statement unless,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) the written request, signed by the member concerned, together with the statement, is deposited at the registered office of the company not less than ten days before the meeting;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) there is also deposited with the request a sum reasonably sufficient to meet the company''s expenses in giving effect thereto.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 159—General Provisions Affecting Sections 157 and 158.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) A company shall not be bound under either section 157 or 158 of this Code to circulate any resolution or statement if, on the application either of the company or of any other person who claims to be aggrieved, the Court is satisfied that the rights conferred by those sections are being abused to secure needless publicity for defamatory matter; and the Court may order the company''s costs on an application under this section to be paid in whole or in part by the member making the request, notwithstanding that he is&nbsp; not a party to the application.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) In the event of any default in complying with section 157 or 158 of this Code, every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 160—Attendance at Meetings.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Notwithstanding any contrary provision in the company''s Regulations the following persons shall be entitled to attend any general meeting of the company, namely,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) every member of the company;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) every director of the company;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) the secretary of the company; and</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(d) every auditor for the time being of the company;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) if the company''s Regulations so provide a member shall not be entitled to attend unless all calls or other sums presently payable by him in respect of shares in the company have been paid;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) any member who is holder of preference shares only shall not be entitled to attend if his right to do so is validly suspended in accordance with section 49 of this Code;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) nothing herein contained shall be deemed to preclude other persons from attending any general meeting with the permission of the chairman thereof.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 161—Quorums.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) No business shall be transacted at any general meeting unless a quorum of members is present at the time when the meeting proceeds to discuss that business; but provided that a quorum is then present the meeting may validly proceed with that business notwithstanding that a quorum is not present throughout:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that where any members present are entitled to vote only on some resolutions and not on others such members shall be counted towards a quorum in respect of the former resolutions but not in respect of the latter.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Unless otherwise provided in the company''s Regulations, the following shall constitute a quorum, that is to say,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) if the company has only one member, that member present in person or, where proxies are allowed, by proxy;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) in any other case two members present in person or, where proxies are allowed, by proxy, or one member so present holding shares representing more than fifty per centum of the total voting rights of all the members having a right to vote at the meeting.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) Unless otherwise provided in the company''s Regulations, if a quorum is not present within half an hour after the time appointed for the meeting, the meeting if convened upon the requisition of members in accordance with section 271 or 297 of this Code, shall be dissolved, and in any other case shall stand adjourned to the same day, in the next week at the same time and place or to such other day, place and time as the directors may determine, and if at the adjourned meeting a quorum is not present within half an hour after the time appointed the member or members present shall constitute a quorum.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) Where the meeting is adjourned to the same day, place and time in the following week no notice need be given; otherwise notice of the adjourned meeting shall be published in at least one daily newspaper circulating in the district in which is situated the registered office of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) Provided that a quorum is present the meeting shall be deemed to be duly conducted notwithstanding that only one member or one proxy is present.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 162—Power of Court to Order Meeting.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) If for any reason it is impracticable to call a meeting of a company in any manner in which meetings of that company may be called, or to conduct the meeting of the company in the manner prescribed by the Regulations of this Code, the Court may, on the application of any director or member of the company, or of the Registrar, order a meeting of the company to be called, held and conducted in such manner as the Court thinks fit; and where any such order is made may give such ancillary or consequential directions as it thinks expedient.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Any meeting called, held and conducted in accordance with an order under the foregoing subsection shall, for all purposes, be deemed to be a meeting of the company duly called, held and conducted.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 163—Proxies.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Any member of a company entitled to attend and vote at a meeting of the company shall be entitled to appoint another person, whether a member of the company or not, as his proxy to attend and vote instead of him and such proxy shall have the same rights as the member to speak at the meeting:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that unless the company''s Regulations shall otherwise provide, this subsection shall not apply in the case of a company limited by guarantee.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) The instrument appointing the proxy shall be in writing under the hand of the appointor or his agent duly authorised in writing or, if the appointor is a body corporate, either under seal or under the hand of an officer or agent duly authorised.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Second Sch.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) An instrument appointing a proxy shall be in the form prescribed by Table A in the Second Schedule hereto or in such form as the company''s Regulations may provide; but, notwithstanding any provision in the company''s Regulations, an instrument in the form prescribed by Table A shall be sufficient.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) Unless the company''s Regulations shall otherwise provide, the instrument appointing a proxy and the power of attorney or other authority, if any, under which it is signed or a notarially certified copy of that power or authority shall be deposited at the registered office of the company or at such other place within Ghana as specified in the notice convening the meeting not less than forty-eight hours before the time for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting or, in the case of a poll, not less than twenty-four hours before the time appointed for the taking of the poll, and in default the instrument of proxy shall not be treated as valid:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that any provision contained in a company''s Regulations shall be void in so far as it would have the effect of requiring the documents herein referred to, to be deposited more than forty-eight hours before the time for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting or, in&nbsp; the case of a poll, more than twenty-four hours before the time appointed for taking the poll.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) Where instruments of proxy have been deposited in accordance with the immediately preceding subsection, any person entitled, in his own right or as proxy for another member or members or partly in one way and partly in another, to more than ten per centum of the total voting rights of all members entitled to vote at the meeting shall be entitled, at any time during business hours prior to the conclusion of the meeting or the taking of the poll, but subject to such reasonable restrictions as the company may impose, to inspect such deposited instruments of proxy and the original or copy powers of attorney or other authority under which they are signed.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(6) The appointment of a proxy shall be terminated by the death or insanity of the appointor or by his revocation of the proxy or the authority under which it was executed; and the personal attendance of a member at the meeting or the later appointment of another proxy in respect of the same share shall be deemed to be revocation:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that a vote given in accordance with the terms of an instrument of proxy may be treated by the company as valid notwithstanding the termination or revocation of the appointment so long as no intimation in writing of the termination or revocation or of the events causing the same shall have been received by the company, at its registered office or other place appointed for the deposit of instruments of proxy, before the commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting or more than twenty-four hours before a poll.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(7) If, for the purpose of any meeting of a company, invitations to appoint as proxy a person or one of a number of persons specified in the invitations are issued at the company''s expense, then,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) such invitations shall be sent to all members entitled to attend and vote at the meeting;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) such invitations shall be accompanied by forms for the appointment of a proxy which shall entitle the members to direct the proxy&nbsp; to vote either for or against each resolution;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) where instruments of proxy are duly completed and returned in accordance with the instructions in the invitation and are not revoked then,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(i) it shall be the duty of the chairman of the meeting to demand a poll after any vote by show of hands unless the result on the show of hands is in accord with the directions, if any, given in all such instruments of proxy; and</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(ii) on any poll the votes of the members concerned shall be deemed to be cast in accordance with the directions, if any, in such instruments of proxy notwithstanding the absence, abstention, or purported vote to the contrary of the proxy.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(8) Where a member, not having been invited so to do, requests the company to issue him with a form of appointment of proxy or a list of persons willing to act as proxy, the company may issue such form or list to him without doing so to all the other members entitled to attend and vote; but such form or list shall be available on request in writing to every such member and any forms of appointment so issued shall comply with paragraph (b) of subsection (7) of this section and shall be deemed to be an instrument of proxy to which paragraph (c) thereof applies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(9) Every officer of the company who knowingly authorises or permits any breach or non-observance of subsection (5), (6), (7) or (8) of this section shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds and in the event of a refusal to permit inspection in accordance with subsection (5) of this section the Court may by order compel an immediate inspection.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 164—Obtaining Proxies by Misrepresentation.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) The vote of a proxy shall not be rejected at a meeting on the ground that the appointment of a proxy was obtained by mis-representation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) The Court may, on the application of the company or any member entitled to vote at the meeting or the Registrar, annul the appointment of a proxy if satisfied that the appointment was obtained by any material misrepresentation of fact whether made fraudulently or not.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) Where any such order is made the Court may further order that the holding of the meeting shall be postponed until such date as the Court may order and may give such ancillary or consequential directions as it thinks fit.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 165—Representation of Corporations at Meetings.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) A body corporate, whether a company within the meaning of this Code or not, may, by resolution of its directors or other governing body, authorise such person as it thinks fit to act as its representative,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) if it is a member of a company, at any meeting of the company;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) if it is a creditor, including a debentureholder, of a company, at any meeting of any creditors of the company held in pursuance of this Code or of the Bodies Corporate (Official Liquidations) Act, 1963&nbsp; (Act 180), or of any rules made thereunder, or in pursuance of the provisions contained in any debenture or trust deed, as the case may be.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) A person authorised as aforesaid, upon production of a copy of the resolution by which he was authorised, shall be entitled to exercise the same powers on behalf of the body corporate which he represents as that body corporate could exercise if it were an individual shareholder, creditor, or holder of debentures of that other company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) This section shall not be deemed to preclude any body corporate from appointing a proxy to attend and vote on its behalf.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 166—Chairman of Meetings.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Unless otherwise provided in the company''s Regulations, the chairman, if any, of the board of directors shall preside as chairman at every general meeting of the company, or if there is no such chairman or, if he shall not be present within fifteen minutes after the time appointed for holding the meeting or is unwilling to act, the directors present shall elect one of their number to be chairman of the meeting, or, if no director is present or willing to act, the members present shall choose one of their number to be chairman of the meeting.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 167—Adjournments.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) The chairman may, with the consent of any meeting at which a quorum is present, and shall if so directed by an ordinary resolution passed at the meeting, adjourn the meeting from time to time and from place to place; but no business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than the business left unfinished at the meeting from which the adjournment took place and any additional business of which due notice shall be given as in the case of an original meeting.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) When a meeting is adjourned for thirty days or more, notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given as in the case of an original meeting.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) Save as aforesaid and unless the company''s Regulations otherwise provide, it shall not be necessary to give notice of the adjournment of any meeting at which a quorum was present, or of the business to be transacted at the adjournment.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 168—Types of Resolution.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) A resolution shall be an ordinary resolution when it has been passed by a simple majority of votes cast by such members of the company as, being entitled so to do, vote in person or, where proxies are allowed, by proxy at a general meeting.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) A resolution shall be a special resolution when it has been passed by not less than three-fourths of the votes cast by such members of the company as, being entitled so to do, vote in person or, where proxies are allowed, by proxy at a general meeting of which, notice specifying the intention to propose the resolution, as a special resolution has been duly given.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) A reference in this Code or in any Regulations, debentures or debenture trust deed to an ordinary or special resolution of a meeting of any class of shareholders, creditors, or debentureholders shall bear a like meaning to that specified in subsection (1) or (2) of this section, as the case may be, with the substitution of the members of the class for the members of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 169—Amendments.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The terms of any resolution, special or ordinary, before a general meeting may be amended by ordinary resolution moved at the meeting provided that the terms of the resolution as amended will still be such that adequate notice of the intention to pass the same can be deemed to have been given in accordance with section 153 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 170—Procedure on Voting.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Unless the company''s Regulations shall otherwise provide, a resolution put to the vote of a meeting shall be decided on a show of hands unless a poll is, before or on the declaration of the result of the show of hands, demanded by,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) the chairman,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) at least three members present in person or by proxy, or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) any member or members present in person or by proxy and representing not less than one-twentieth of the total voting rights of all the members having the right to attend and vote on the resolution:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that any provision contained in the company''s Regulations shall be void in so far as it would have the effect,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) of excluding the right to demand a poll on any question other than the election of the chairman or the adjournment of the meeting; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) of making ineffective a demand for a poll on any such question which is made by the persons specified in any of paragraphs (a), (b) or (c) of this subsection.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) The demand for a poll may be withdrawn.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) On a show of hands each member who is&nbsp; personally present and entitled to vote and each proxy for any member entitled to vote shall have one vote.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) Unless a poll is effectively demanded, a declaration by the chairman that a resolution has, on a show of hands been carried, or carried unanimously, or by a particular majority, or lost, and an entry to that effect in the book containing the minutes of the meeting shall be conclusive evidence of the fact without proof of the number or proportion of votes recorded in favour of or against such resolution.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) If a poll is effectively demanded it shall be taken at such time and in such manner as the chairman shall direct.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(6) In lieu of directing that a poll shall be taken of those members present in person or by proxy at the poll, the chairman may direct that voting shall be by postal ballot of all the members entitled to attend and vote on the resolution; and in that event, ballot papers shall be served on members entitled to attend and vote on the resolution in the same manner as notice of the meeting is required to be given to them and such members may cast their votes either by personally completing the ballot papers or by having the same completed by any proxy of theirs whose instrument of appointment has been deposited, in accordance with subsection (4) of section 163 of this Code, not less than twenty-four hours before the time appointed for the closing of the ballot.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(7) Notwithstanding subsection (5) of this section, a postal ballot in accordance with the immediately preceding subsection shall be directed by the chairman if,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) the company''s Regulations so provide; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) on or after the chairman has directed a poll, an ordinary resolution in favour of a postal ballot under this subsection is moved at the meeting and passed on a show of hands.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(8) For all the purposes of this Code a postal ballot in accordance with subsection (6) of this section shall be deemed to be a poll.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(9) Except as otherwise lawfully provided in the company''s Regulations, on a poll each shareholder entitled to vote&nbsp; shall have one vote for each share held by him and each member of a company limited by guarantee shall have one vote.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(10) On a poll a member entitled to more than one vote, or a proxy representing more than one member or a member entitled to more than one vote, need not, if he votes, use all his votes or cast all the votes he uses in the same way.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(11) Unless the company''s Regulations otherwise provide, in the case of an equality of votes, whether on a show of hands or a poll, the chairman of the meeting at which the show of hands takes place or at which the poll is demanded&nbsp; shall be entitled to a second or casting vote.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 171—Voting by Joint Holders.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In the case of joint holders the vote of the senior who tenders a vote, whether in person or by proxy, shall be accepted, to the exclusion of the votes of the other joint holders; and for this purpose seniority shall be determined by the order in which the names stand in the register of members.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 172—Votes by Persons of Unsound Mind.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">A member of unsound mind may vote, whether on a show of hands or a poll, by such person as may be appointed for the purpose by the Court and the person so appointed may vote by proxy.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 173—Date of Passing of Resolutions.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Where a resolution is passed at an adjourned meeting, the resolution shall, for all purposes, be deemed to have been passed on the date on which it was in fact passed at the adjourned meeting.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Where a resolution is passed on a poll it shall for all purposes be deemed to have been passed on the day on which the result of the poll is declared, and not on any earlier day.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 174—Written Resolutions.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section, a resolution in writing signed by all the members for the time being entitled to attend and vote on such resolution at a general meeting, or being bodies corporate by their duly authorised representatives, and, if the company has only one such member by that member, shall be as valid and effective for all purposes as if the same had been passed at a general meeting of the company duly convened and held; and if described as a special resolution shall be deemed to be a special resolution within the meaning of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) The resolution shall be deemed to have been passed on the date on which the same was signed by the last member to sign, and where the resolution states a date as being the date of his signature thereof by any member such statement shall be prima facie evidence that it was signed by that member on that date.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) Subsections (1) and (2) of this section shall not apply to a resolution to remove an auditor, which can be passed only at an annual general meeting in accordance with section 135 of this Code, or to remove a director, which can be passed only at a general meeting in accordance with section 185 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 175—Application of Sections 152 to 174 to Class Meetings.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Sections 152 to 174 of this Code shall apply to meetings of any class of members in like manner as they apply to general meetings of companies, but so that the necessary quorum shall be as set out in subsection (2) of this section and that any member of the class present in person or by proxy may demand a poll.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) At any meeting of any class of members the necessary quorum shall be,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) if there are not more than two members of that class, one member present in person or by proxy;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) in any other case, two members, present in person or by proxy, holding not less than one-third of the total voting rights of that class:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that the company''s Regulations may provide for a larger, but not for a smaller quorum.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 176—Registration of Copies of Certain Resolutions.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) A certified true copy of every special resolution of a general meeting or of a class of members and of every resolution to which a specified proportion of a class of members have consented in writing and which would not have been effective for its purpose, unless such written consent had been given, without the passing of a special resolution, shall be forwarded to the Registrar for registration within twenty-eight days after the passing or making thereof.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Such copy shall be printed, typewritten, or in some other legible form acceptable to the Registrar.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) A copy of every special resolution of a general meeting of the company for the time being in force shall be embodied in or annexed to every copy of the Regulations issued after the passing of the resolution:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that, where the sole effect of the special resolution is to amend the Regulations, this subsection shall be sufficiently complied with if every copy of the Regulations issued thereafter embodies the effect of the amendment and refers to the date of the passing of the special resolution.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) If a company fails to comply with this section the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds for each default.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 177—Minutes of General Meetings.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Every company shall cause minutes of all proceedings of general meetings and meetings of any class of members to be entered in a book or books kept for the purpose.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Any such minute, if purporting to be signed by the chairman of the meeting at which the proceedings took place or of the next succeeding meeting, shall be prima facie evidence of the proceedings.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) Where minutes have been made in accordance with the provisions of this section then, until the contrary is proved, the meeting shall be deemed to be duly held, convened and conducted.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) If a company&nbsp; fails to comply with subsection (1) of this section the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 178—Inspection of Minute Books.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) The books containing the minutes of proceedings of every general meeting or class meeting of a company held after the commencement of this Code, shall be kept at the registered office of the company and shall, during business hours, subject to such reasonable restrictions as the company''s Regulations may impose, but so that not less than two hours in each day, other than a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday, be allowed for inspection, be open to the inspection of any member without charge.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Any member shall be entitled to be furnished, within ten days after he has made a request in that behalf to the company, with a copy of any such minutes at a charge not exceeding one shilling for every hundred words.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) If any inspection required under this section is refused or if any copy required under this section is not sent within the proper time, the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable in respect of each offence to a fine not exceeding five pounds for every day during which the default continues and the Court may, by order, compel an immediate inspection or furnishing of a copy, as the case may be.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part Q—Directors and Secretary</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 179—Meaning of "Directors."</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) For the purposes of this Code the expression "directors" means those persons, by whatever name called, who are appointed to direct and administer the business of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Any person, not being a duly appointed director of a company,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) who shall hold himself out or knowingly allow himself to be held out as a director of that company, or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) on whose directions or instructions the duly appointed directors are accustomed to act,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">shall be subject to the same duties and liabilities as if he were a duly appointed director of the company:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that nothing in this subsection contained shall be deemed to derogate from the duties or liabilities of the duly appointed directors, including the duty not to act on the directions or instructions of any other person.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) If any person, not being a duly appointed director of a company, shall hold himself out, or knowingly allow himself to be held out, as a director of the company, or if the company shall hold out such person, or knowingly allow such person to hold himself out, as a director of the company, such person or the company as the case may be, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) For the purposes of subsections (2) and (3) of this section a person who is described as director of a company, whether such description is qualified by the word "local", "special", "executive", or in any other way, shall be deemed to be held out as a director of that company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 180—Number of Directors.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Every company incorporated after the commencement of this Code shall have at least two directors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Every company incorporated prior to the commencement of this Code shall, after the expiration of six months from the commencement of this Code, have at least two directors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) If at any time the number of directors is less than two in breach of either of the foregoing subsections of this section and the company continues to carry on business for more than four weeks thereafter, the company and every director and member of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds for every day during which it so carries on business after the expiration of such four weeks without having at least two directors; and every director and member of the company who is cognisant of the fact that it is carrying on business with fewer than two directors shall be jointly and severally liable for all the debts and liabilities of the company incurred during that time.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) Subject as aforesaid the number of directors shall be fixed by, or in accordance with, the company''s Regulations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 181—Appointment of Directors.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) No person shall be appointed a director of a company unless he shall prior to such appointment, have consented in writing to be appointed.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) The first directors of a company shall be named in the company''s Regulations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) Subject to the following subsections of this section and to sections 182 and 183 of this Code, the appointment of directors shall be regulated by the company''s Regulations and except as otherwise provided in the Regulations, section 272 of this Code shall regulate the appointment of directors of a private company and sections 298 and 299 of this Code the appointment of directors of a public company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) The Regulations of a company may provide for the appointment of a director or directors by any class of shareholders, debentureholders, creditors, employees or any other person.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) Notwithstanding any provision in the company''s Regulations, any casual vacancy in the number of directors may be filled by,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) the continuing directors or director notwithstanding that their number may have been reduced below that fixed as the necessary quorum of directors; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) by an ordinary resolution of the company in general meeting:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) in exercising their power to fill such vacancy the directors shall observe the rules laid down in sections 203 and 204 of this Code and shall not appoint any person to be a director unless they have taken reasonable steps to satisfy themselves that he is a person of integrity and suitable to be a director of the company;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) if the casual vacancy so filled is one which, under the terms of the company''s Regulations, should be filled by an appointment by any class of shareholders, debentureholders, creditors, employees, or other person, the director appointed by the continuing directors or by an ordinary resolution of the company in general meeting, as the case may be, shall cease to hold office so soon as any other director is duly appointed in accordance with the Regulations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 182—Competence of Directors.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) The following persons shall not be competent to be appointed or to act as directors of a company, namely,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) an infant;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) any one found by a competent court to be a person of unsound mind;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) a body corporate;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(d) any one in respect of whom an order shall have been made under section 186 of this Code so long as such order remains in force unless leave to act as director has been given by the Court in accordance with that section;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(e) an undischarged bankrupt, unless he shall have been granted leave to act as director by the Court by which he was&nbsp; adjudged bankrupt.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) If any of the persons specified in subsection (1) of this section, other than a body corporate, or person of unsound mind, shall act as a director of any company or knowingly allow himself to be appointed a director, he shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or to a fine not exceeding five hundred pounds or to both such imprisonment and fine; and if any body corporate shall act as a director or allow itself to be appointed a director, the body corporate and every officer thereof who knowingly permitted it so to act or to be appointed shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred pounds.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) If any company shall appoint any person as director in contravention of this section the company and every director of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred pounds.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) The company''s Regulations may lawfully provide that classes of persons additional to those provided in subsection (1) of this section shall be incompetent to be directors of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 183—Directors'' Share Qualification.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Unless the company''s Regulations otherwise provide, a director need not be a member of the company or hold any shares therein.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Where the Regulations require a director to hold a specified share qualification, every director shall obtain his qualification within two months after his appointment or such shorter period as may be fixed by the Regulations; and his office shall be vacated if he shall fail to do so, or if at any time after the expiration of that period he ceases to hold his qualification:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that if the company amends its Regulations so as to introduce or increase the requirement of a share qualification every director holding office at the date of such alteration shall have two months thereafter to obtain his qualification and shall not vacate office under this section unless he fails to do so.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) A person vacating office under this section shall be incapable of&nbsp; being re-appointed a director of the company until he has obtained his qualification.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 184—Vacation of Office of Director.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) The office of director shall be vacated if the director becomes incompetent to act as a director by virtue of the provisions of section 182 of this Code, or if he ceases to hold office by virtue of section 183 of this Code, or if he resigns his office by notice in writing to the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) The company''s Regulations may lawfully provide for the termination or vacation of office in circumstances additional to those specified in the foregoing subsection.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 185—Removal of Directors.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Subject to the provisions of section 300 of this Code and to the following subsections, a company may by ordinary resolution at any general meeting remove from office all or any of the directors notwithstanding anything in its Regulations or in any agreement with any director.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) A resolution to remove any director shall not be moved at any general meeting unless notice of the intention to move it has been given to the company not less than thirty-five days before the&nbsp; meeting at which it is to be moved:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that if after notice of the intention to move the resolution is given to the company, a meeting is called for a date thirty-five days or less after the notice has been given, the notice shall be deemed to have been properly given for the purposes of this subsection.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) The company shall give its members notice of such resolution at the same time and in the same manner as it gives notice of the meeting or, if that is not practicable, shall give them notice thereof in the same manner as notices of meetings are required to be given not less than twenty-one days before the meeting.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) On receipt of notice of an intended resolution to remove a director under this section the company shall forthwith send a copy thereof to the director concerned and such director, whether or not he is a member of the company, shall be entitled,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) to be heard on the resolution at the meeting; and</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) to send to the company a written statement, copies of which the company shall send with every notice of the general meeting or, if the statement is received too late, shall forthwith circulate to every person entitled under section 154 of this Code to notice of the meeting in the same manner as notices of meetings are required to be given:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that the company need not send or circulate such statement,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) if it is received by the company less than seven days before the meeting, or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) if the Court, on application by the company or any other person who claims to be aggrieved, so orders upon being satisfied that the statement is unreasonably long or that the rights conferred by this section are being abused to secure needless publicity for defamatory matter; and the Court may order the costs of the applicant to be paid in whole or in part by the director notwithstanding that he is not a party to the application.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) Without prejudice to the director''s right to be heard orally on such resolution, he may, unless the Court shall have made an order under the immediately preceding subsection, also require that the written statement by him be read to the meeting.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(6) A vacancy created by the removal of any director under this section, if not filled at the meeting at which he is removed, may be filled as a casual vacancy in accordance with section 181 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(7) Nothing in this section shall be taken as depriving any director who has a service agreement with the company of any right to compensation to which he may lawfully be entitled under such agreement on the termination of his directorship or of any right to damages if his removal from his directorship constitutes a breach of such service agreement.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 186—Restraining Fraudulent Persons from Managing Companies.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Where,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) a person is convicted on indictment, whether in Ghana or elsewhere, of any offence involving fraud or dishonesty or any offence in connection with the promotion, formation or management of a body corporate, or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) a person is adjudicated bankrupt whether in Ghana or elsewhere, or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) it appears that a person has been guilty of any criminal offence, whether convicted or not, in relation to any body corporate or of any fraud or breach of duty in relation to a body corporate,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">the Court, on its own motion or on the application of any of the persons referred to in subsection (3) of this section, may order that that person shall not, without the leave of the Court, be a director of or in any way, whether directly or indirectly, be concerned or take part in the management of any company or act as auditor, receiver or liquidator of any company for such period as may be specified in the order.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) An order under paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of this section may be made by any court in Ghana before which the person is convicted as well as by the High Court.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) An application for an order under this section may be made by the Registrar or by the Official Trustee, or by the trustee in bankruptcy of the person concerned or by the liquidator of any body corporate.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) A person intending to apply for the making of an order under this section shall give not less than twenty-eight days written notice of his intention to the person against whom the order is sought, and to the Registrar if the application is made by some person other than the Registrar.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) On the hearing of any application under this section the applicant, the person against whom the order is sought, the Registrar and the Official Trustee may appear, and give evidence and call witnesses and draw the attention of the Court to any relevant matters.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(6) A person against whom an order has been made under this section who intends to apply for leave to act as a director or in the management of a company shall give at least twenty-eight days written notice of his intention to the Registrar, and the Registrar, the Official Trustee, and any person on whose application the order was made or who appeared at the hearing at which the order was made, may appear and give evidence and call witnesses and draw the attention of the Court to any relevant matters.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(7) Where any order is made or leave is granted under this section, the Court making the order or granting leave shall forward a copy to the Registrar who shall cause a summary thereof to be published in the Gazette.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(8) The Registrar shall maintain a register of orders made under this section and shall enter therein particulars of each order and of any leave granted and such register shall be open to the inspection of any person on payment of one shilling for each inspection.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(9) If any person acts in contravention of an order made under this section he shall, in respect of each offence, be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a&nbsp; fine not exceeding five hundred pounds, or to both such imprisonment and fine.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 187—Substitute Directors.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Unless the company''s Regulations otherwise provide, a company may appoint substitute directors in accordance with the provisions of this section.&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) A substitute director is one who is appointed to act as a deputy for another named director and as his substitute in his absence.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) A substitute director shall not be counted as a director for the purposes of any provision in this Code or the company''s Regulations prescribing a minimum or maximum number of directors, other than a provision relating to a quorum, and shall not be entitled to vote at any meeting of directors or any committee of directors at which the director for whom he is substitute is present.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) Except as provided by subsection (3) of this section, a substitute director shall be deemed to be a full director of the company for all purposes and shall be appointed and may be removed in the same way as directors are required to be appointed and removed, and shall not cease to be a director by reason of the fact that the director for whom he is a substitute ceases to be a director.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 188—Alternate Directors.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Unless prohibited by the Regulations a director may, in respect of any period not exceeding six months in which he is absent from Ghana or unable for any reason to act as a director, appoint another director or any other person approved by a resolution of the board of directors, as an alternate director.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) The appointment shall be in writing signed by the appointor and appointee and lodged with the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) Every alternate director so appointed shall, for the period of such appointment, be deemed for all purposes to be a director and officer of the company and not the agent of his appointor; but he shall not be required to hold any share qualification notwithstanding that, under the Regulations, directors may be so required, nor shall he be entitled to appoint an alternate director, nor shall he be counted as a director for the purposes of any provision of this Code or the Regulations relating to the minimum or maximum number of directors, other than a provision relating to a quorum.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) The company shall not be liable to pay additional remuneration by reason of the appointment of an alternate director.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) The Regulations of the company may provide that the alternate director shall be entitled to receive from the company during the period of his appointment the remuneration to which his appointor, but for such appointment, would have been entitled and that his appointor shall not be entitled to remuneration for that period, but, in absence of such provision in the Regulations, the alternate director shall not be entitled to be remunerated otherwise than by the director appointing him.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(6) An alternate director who is himself a director shall have an additional vote for each director for whom he acts as alternate at every meeting of the directors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(7) The appointment of an alternate director shall cease at the expiration of the period for which he was appointed, or if his appointor gives written notice to that effect to the company, or if his appointor ceases for any reason to be a director or if the alternate director resigns by notice in writing to the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(8) Until the cessation of the appointment of an alternate director both the appointor and appointee shall be and may act as directors of the company, but no alternate, unless a director in his own right, shall attend or vote at any meeting of the directors or any committee of directors at which his appointor is present.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 189—Presence of Directors in Ghana.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) At least one director of every company shall at all times be present in Ghana.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) In the event of any wilful breach of this section the company and every director of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds for every day during which the default continues.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) The rights of the company concerned under or arising out of any contract made during such time as there shall be no director of the company present in Ghana shall not be enforceable by action or other legal proceedings:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) the company may apply to the Court for relief against the disability imposed by this subsection and the Court, on being satisfied that it is just and equitable to grant relief, may grant such relief either generally or as respects any particular contract and on such conditions as the Court may impose;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) nothing herein contained shall prejudice the rights of any other parties as against the company, or any other person in respect of such contract;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) if any action or proceeding shall be commenced by any other party against the company to enforce the rights of such party in respect of such contract, nothing herein contained shall preclude the company from enforcing in that action or proceeding by way of counterclaim, set off or otherwise, such rights as it may have against that party in respect of that contract.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 190—Secretary.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Every company shall have a secretary and if any company shall carry on business for more than six months without a secretary the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds for each day that the company continues to carry on business without a secretary after the expiration of such six months.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Anything required or authorised to be done by or to the secretary may, if the office is vacant or there is for any other reason no secretary capable of acting, be done by or to any assistant or deputy secretary or any officer of the company appointed by the directors to be acting secretary.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) Unless the Regulations shall otherwise provide, the secretary shall be appointed by the directors for such term, at such remuneration and upon such conditions as they may think fit, and may be removed by them, subject however to his right to claim damages from the company if removed in breach of contract.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) The secretary may be a body corporate.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 191—Avoidance of Acts in dual Capacity as Director and Secretary.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">A provision requiring or authorising a thing to be done by or to a director and the secretary shall not be satisfied by its being done by or to the same person acting both as director and as, or in place of, the secretary.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 192—Executive Directors.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Unless the company''s Regulations shall otherwise provide,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) a director may hold any other office or place of profit under the company, other than the office of auditor, in conjunction with the office of director;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) the directors may from time to time appoint one or more of their body to such other office for such period and on such terms as they may determine and, subject to the terms of any agreement entered into in any particular case, may revoke such appointment;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) subject to compliance with section 194 of this Code and subject to the provisions of section 195 of this Code, such office may be remunerated by way of salary, commission, share of profits, participation in pension and retirement schemes, or partly in one way and partly in another, as the directors may determine;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(d) in exercising their powers hereunder the directors shall observe the rules laid down in sections 203 and 204 of this Code and, in particular, in determining the amount of remuneration shall satisfy themselves that the amount of the remuneration is reasonably related to the value of the services of the holder of the office.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 193—Managing Directors.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Unless the Company''s Regulations shall otherwise provide,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) the directors may from time to time appoint one or more of their body to the office of managing director and to any such appointment the provisions of section 192 of this Code shall apply;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) the appointment of managing director shall be automatically determined if the holder of the office ceases from any cause to be a director and, unless the agreement entered into in any particular case shall otherwise provide, such determination shall not constitute a breach of this contract with the company;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) the directors may entrust to and confer upon a managing director any of the powers exercisable by them upon such terms and with such restrictions as they think fit, and either collaterally with, or to the exclusion of their own powers and, subject to the terms of any agreement entered into in any particular case, may from time to time revoke or vary all or any of such powers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 194—Remuneration of Directors.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Subject as hereinafter provided in this section, the fees and other remuneration payable to the directors in whatsoever capacity, shall be determined from time to time by ordinary resolution of the company, and not by any provision in the Regulations or in any agreement, which provision shall be null and void.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) The fees payable to the directors as such shall be determined from time to time by ordinary resolution of the company and not in any other way:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that where the Regulations of an existing company contain any provision fixing the fees payable to the directors such provision shall continue in operation and have effect until the date of the first annual general meeting of the company held next after the commencement of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) Unless otherwise resolved, the fees payable to directors shall be deemed to accrue from day-to-day and the directors shall also be entitled to be paid all travelling and other expenses properly incurred by them in attending and returning from meetings of the directors or any committee of the directors or general meeting of the company or otherwise in connection with the business of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) Where any director holds any other office or place of profit under the company in accordance with section 192 or 193 of this Code, the terms of his appointment may provide for his remuneration in respect thereof but he shall not be entitled to any remuneration additional to the fees to which he is entitled as director unless and until the terms of his appointment to such office have been approved by ordinary resolution of the company:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that where any director holds any such office or place of profit under an appointment made prior to the sixth day of April, 1961 and the terms of his appointment contain provisions relating to his remuneration, such provisions, although not approved by ordinary resolution of the company, shall continue in operation and have effect,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) if the appointment is for a fixed term, not determinable by the company or on the director ceasing to be a director, until the expiration of that fixed period or the earlier determination of the appointment;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) in any other case, until the date of the first annual general meeting of the company held next after the commencement of this Code, or the earlier determination of the appointment.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 195—Prohibition of Tax-free Payments.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) It shall not be lawful for a company to pay a director or secretary of the company remuneration free of income tax or otherwise calculated by reference to or varying with the amount of his income tax except under a contract which was in force prior to the sixth day of April, 1961 and provides expressly, and not by reference to the company''s Regulations, for payment of remuneration as aforesaid.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Any provision contained in a company''s Regulations, or in any resolution of a company or of a company''s directors, or in any contract, other than such a contract as is excepted from the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, for payment of remuneration as aforesaid shall have effect as if it provided for payment, as a gross sum, subject to income tax, of the net sum for which it actually provides.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) This section shall not apply to remuneration due before the commencement of this Code or in respect of a period before the commencement of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 196—Register of Directors and Secretary.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Every company shall keep at its registered office a register of its directors including substitute directors appointed in accordance with section 187 of this Code but excluding alternate directors appointed in accordance with section 188 of this Code, and secretaries.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) The register shall contain the following particulars with respect to each director, namely,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) his present forenames and surname;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) any former forename or surname;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) his usual residential address;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(d) his business occupation, if any; and</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(e) particulars of any other directorships, other than alternate directorships held by him.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) The register shall contain the following particulars with respect to the secretary or, where there are joint secretaries, with respect to each of them, namely,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) in the case of an individual, the particulars required by paragraphs (a) to (d) of the immediately preceding subsection;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) in the case of a body corporate, its corporate name and registered or principal office:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that when all the partners in a firm are joint secretaries the name and principal office of the firm may be stated instead of the residential address of each partner.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) The register shall during business hours, subject to such reasonable restrictions as the company may by its Regulations impose so that not less than two hours in each day, other than Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays, be allowed for inspection, be open to the inspection of any member of the company without charge and any other person on payment of one shilling, or such less sum as the company may prescribe, for each inspection.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) If any inspection required under this section is refused or if default is made in complying with subsection (1), (2) or (3) of this section, the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, and in the case of any such refusal the Court may by order compel an immediate inspection of the register.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(6) For the purposes of this section and sections 197 and 198 of this Code,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) in the case of a person usually known by a title different from his surname, the expression "surname" means that title;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) references to a former name do not include,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(i) in the case of a person usually known by a title, the name by which he was known prior to his succession to that title;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(ii) a name changed or disused before the person bearing the name attained the age of eighteen years or changed or disused for a period of not less than twenty years;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(iii) in the case of a married woman, the name by which she was known prior to the marriage.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 197—Registration of Particulars of Directors and Secretaries.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Every existing company shall, within twenty-eight days after the commencement of this Code, send to the Registrar for registration a return in the prescribed form containing the particulars specified in the register referred to in section 196 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Every company incorporated after the commencement of this Code shall include the particulars specified in the said register in the statement required to be sent to the Registrar in accordance with section 27 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) Every company shall, within twenty-eight days of any change occurring among its directors or in its secretary or in any of the particulars contained in the register, other than those required under paragraph (e) of subsection (2) of section 196 of this Code, send to the Registrar for registration notification in the prescribed form of the change, specifying the date of the change.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) If default is made in complying with subsection (1) or (3) of this section, the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds for every day during which the default continues.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) A director or secretary who resigns his office shall be deemed to be in default unless notification of his resignation is duly given to the Registrar in accordance with subsection (3) of this section.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 198—Publication of Names of Directors.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Every company shall in all trade circulars and business letters on or in which the company''s name appears state in legible characters with respect to every director, including substitute directors appointed in accordance with section 187 of this Code but excluding alternate directors appointed in accordance with section 188 of this Code,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) his present forenames and surname,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) any former forenames or surname:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that, if special circumstances exist which render it in the opinion of the Registrar expedient that such an exemption should be granted, the Registrar may by legislative instrument grant, subject to such conditions as may be specified in the instrument, exemption from the obligations imposed by this section in respect of any company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) If a company makes default in complying with this section, the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds for each offence.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 199—Prohibition of Assignment of Offices.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">A provision in the Regulations of any company or in any agreement purporting to empower a director or other officer to assign his office to another person and any purported assignment of the office shall be void.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 200—Proceedings of Directors.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Subject to any contrary provisions in the Regulations,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) the directors may meet together in Ghana or elsewhere for the dispatch of business, adjourn and otherwise regulate their meetings as they think fit, and may delegate any of their powers to committees consisting of such member or members of their body as they think fit; but any committee so formed shall in the exercise of the powers so delegated conform to any regulations that may be imposed on them by the directors;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) any director may, and the secretary on the requisition of a director shall, at any time summon a meeting of directors, and any director being a member of a committee may, and the secretary on the requisition of any such director shall, at any time summon a meeting of the committee;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) it shall not be necessary to give notice of a meeting of directors or of a committee of directors to any director for the time being absent from Ghana;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(d) the quorum necessary for the transaction of business of the directors and of every committee of directors may be fixed by the directors and unless so fixed shall be two, or, in the case of a one-man committee one;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(e) except as provided in paragraph (f) of this section no business shall be transacted in the absence of a quorum notwithstanding that a quorum was present at the commencement of the meeting;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(f) the continuing directors may act notwithstanding any vacancy in their body but, if and so long as their number is reduced below the number fixed as the necessary quorum, the continuing directors or director may act for four weeks after the number is so reduced, but thereafter may act only for the purpose of increasing their number to that number or of summoning a general meeting of the company and for no other purpose;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(g) the directors and any committee of directors may elect a chairman of their meetings and determine the period for which he is to hold office, but if no such chairman is elected, or if at any meeting the chairman is not present within five minutes after the time appointed for holding the same, those present may choose one of their number to be chairman of the meeting;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(h) questions arising at any meeting of the directors or any committee of directors shall be decided by a majority of votes and in the case of an equality of votes the chairman shall have a second or casting vote;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(i) attendance and voting by proxy shall not be permitted at meetings of directors or committees of directors;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(j) a resolution in writing, signed by all the directors for the time being entitled to receive notice of a meeting of the directors, or of a committee of directors, shall be as valid and effectual as if it had been passed at a meeting of the directors or a committee of directors duly convened and held.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 201—Minutes of Directors'' Meetings.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Every company shall cause minutes of all proceedings of meetings of its directors and any committee of directors to be entered in a book or books kept for the purpose.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Any such minutes, if purporting to be signed by the chairman of the meeting at which the proceedings took place or of the next succeeding meeting, shall be prima facie evidence of the proceedings.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) Where minutes have been made in accordance with the provisions of this section then, until the contrary is proved, the meeting shall be deemed to be duly convened, held and conducted and all appointments of directors shall be deemed to be valid.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) If a company fails to comply with subsection (1) of this section the company and every officer of the company who is in `default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 202—Limitations on the Powers of the Directors.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Notwithstanding subsection (3) of section 137 of this Code or any provision in the company''s Regulations, the directors of a company with shares shall not, without the approval of an ordinary resolution of the company,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) sell, lease or otherwise dispose of the whole, or substantially the whole, of the undertaking or of the assets of the company;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) issue any new or unissued shares, other than treasury shares, in the company unless the same shall first have been offered on the same terms and conditions to all the existing shareholders or to all the holders of the shares of the class or classes being issued in proportion as nearly as may be to their existing holdings;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) make voluntary contributions to any charitable or other funds, other than pension funds for the benefit of employees of the company or any associated company, of any amounts the aggregate of which will, in any financial year of the company, exceed one thousand pounds or two per centum of the income surplus of the company at the end of the immediately preceding financial year, whichever is the greater:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) no resolution of the company shall be effective as approving of such transaction as is referred to in paragraph (a) of this subsection unless it authorises in terms the specific transaction proposed by the directors;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) no resolution of the company shall be effective as approving of such a transaction as is referred to in paragraph (b) of this subsection if passed more than one year before the issue of the said shares unless such issue is in accordance with a scheme for the time being in force relating to the issue of shares to or for the benefit of persons bona fide in the employment of the company or any of its associated companies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1a) Paragraph (b) of the proviso to subsection (1) of this section shall not apply to a public company some or all of whose equity shares are dealt in on an approved stock exchange; [As inserted by the Companies Code (Amendment) Act, 1994 (Act 474) s. 2(a)].</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Notwithstanding any provisions of this Code or in the company''s Regulations or in any resolution of the company in general meeting, no new or unissued shares or treasury shares shall be issued to any director or past director of the company or of any associated company or to his nominee or to any body corporate controlled by him unless the shares shall first have been offered on the same terms and conditions to all the existing shareholders or to all the holders of the shares of the class or classes being issued in proportion to their existing holdings or, in the case of a public company, to members of the public.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2a) Subsection (2) of this section may be disapplied with the approval of an ordinary resolution of a public company some or all of whose equity shares are dealt in on an approved stock exchange or in respect of which application has been made to an approved stock exchange for permission to deal in such shares. [As inserted by the Companies Code (Amendment) Act, 1994 (Act 474) s. 2(b)].</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) For the purposes of the immediately preceding subsection a body corporate shall be deemed to be controlled by a director if such body corporate or its directors are accustomed to act in accordance with the directions or instructions of such director or his nominee or if at a general meeting of such body corporate such director or his nominee is entitled to exercise or control the exercise of one-third or more of the voting power.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) Nothing in the foregoing subsections of this section shall prohibit,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) the issue of any shares under a bona fide underwriting agreement; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) the issue to a director at a fair price payable in cash of such shares, if any, as, under the Regulations of the company, he is required to hold by way of share qualification.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) Unless the company''s Regulations shall otherwise provide the directors of a company with shares shall not, without the approval of an ordinary resolution of the company, exercise the company''s power to borrow money or to charge any of its assets where the moneys to be borrowed or secured, together with the amount remaining undischarged of moneys already borrowed or secured, apart from temporary loans obtained from the company''s bankers in the ordinary course of business, will exceed the stated capital for the time being of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(6) No person dealing with the company in good faith or registering any disposition of, or title to, property shall be concerned to see whether the conditions of this section have been fulfilled and the provisions of sections 139 to 143 of this Code shall apply to any transactions of the type referred to in this section notwithstanding that such conditions have not been fulfilled.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 203—Duties of Directors.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) A director of a company stands in a fiduciary relationship towards the company and shall observe the utmost good faith towards the company in any transaction with it or on its behalf.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) A director shall act at all times in what he believes to be the best interests of the company as a whole so as to preserve its assets, further its business, and promote the purposes for which it was formed, and in such manner as a faithful, diligent, careful and ordinarily skilful director would act in the circumstances.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) In considering whether a particular transaction or course of action is in the best interests of the company as a whole a director may have regard to the interests of the employees, as well as the members, of the company, and, when appointed by, or as representative of, a special class of members, employees, or creditors may give special, but not exclusive, consideration to the interests of that class.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) No provision, whether contained in the Regulations of a company, or in any contract, or in any resolution of a company shall relieve any director from the duty to act in accordance with this section or relieve him from any liability incurred as a result of any breach thereof.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 204—Exercise of Directors'' Powers.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The directors shall not, without the approval of an ordinary resolution of the company, exceed the powers conferred upon them by this Code and the company''s Regulations or exercise such powers for a purpose different from that for which such powers were conferred notwithstanding that they may believe such exercise to be in the best interests of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 205—Conflicts of Duty and Interest.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Notwithstanding any provision in the company''s Regulations, a director shall not, without the consent of the company in accordance with section 206 of this Code, place himself in a position in which his duty to the company conflicts or may conflict with his personal interests or his duties to other persons, and in particular, without such consent a director shall not,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) use for his own advantage any money or property of the company or any confidential information or special knowledge obtained by him in his capacity as director;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) be interested directly or indirectly, otherwise than merely as a shareholder or debentureholder in a public company, in any business which competes with that of the company; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) be personally interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract or other transaction entered into by the company except as provided by section 207 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 206—Consent of Company.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) For the purposes of section 205 of this Code the company shall not be deemed to have consented unless, after full disclosure of all material facts, including the nature and extent of any interests of the directors, the transaction concerned shall have been specifically authorised by an ordinary resolution of the company which shall either have been agreed to by all the members of the company entitled to attend and vote at a general meeting or have been passed at a general meeting at which neither the director concerned nor the holders of any shares in which he is beneficially interested, either directly or indirectly, shall have voted as members on such resolution.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Consent in accordance with subsection (1) of this section may be given either before or after the occurrence of the transaction to which it relates:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that a resolution of the company ratifying a transaction or series of related transactions which has already taken place shall not be effective for the purposes of such subsection unless it was passed not later than fifteen months after the date when the transaction or first of such transactions took place.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 207—Contracts in which Directors are Interested.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Unless otherwise provided in the company''s Regulations, a director, notwithstanding section 205 of this Code, shall be entitled to enter into a contract with the company and, subject to compliance with section 203 of this Code and with subsections (2) to (7) of this section, such contract or any other contract by the company in which any director is in any way interested shall not be liable to be avoided nor shall any director be liable to account for any profit made thereby by reason of such director holding that office or of the fiduciary relationship thereby established.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Every director who is in any way, whether directly or indirectly, materially interested in any contract or proposed contract entered into or to be entered into by or on behalf of the company shall declare the nature and extent of his interest at a meeting of the directors of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) In the case of a proposed contract the declaration required by this section to be made by a director shall be made at the meeting of the directors at which the question of entering into the contract is first taken into consideration or, if the director was not at the date of that meeting interested in the proposed contract, at the next meeting after he became so interested, and in a case where the director becomes interested in a contract after it is made the said declaration shall be made at the first meeting of the directors held after the director becomes so interested.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) For the purposes of this section, a general notice in writing given to the directors of the company by a director to the effect that he is a member of a specified company or firm and is to be regarded as interested in any contract which may, after the date of the notice, be made with that company or firm, shall be deemed to be a sufficient declaration of interest in relation to any contract or proposed contract so made or to be made:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) there is stated in the said notice the nature and extent of the interest of the director in such company or firm;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) at the time the question of confirming or entering into any contract is first taken into consideration the extent of his interest in such company or firm is not greater than is stated in the notice;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) no such general notice shall be of any effect unless either it is given at a meeting of the directors, or the director giving the notice takes all reasonable steps to secure that it is brought up and read at the next meeting of directors after it is given;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(d) such a general notice shall not be effective for more than twelve months but may from time to time be renewed.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) A director of the company shall not enter into any contract on its behalf in which he or, to his knowledge, any director of the company or any associated company is in any way materially interested, whether directly or indirectly, until a resolution has been passed by the directors approving thereof.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(6) In the case of any proposed contract in which such officer is himself interested he shall, prior to the passing of the approving resolution, declare the nature and extent of his interest therein at a meeting of directors or by written notice given to the directors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(7) A director shall not vote in respect of any contract or arrangement in which he is materially interested and if he shall do so his vote shall not be counted, nor shall he be counted in the quorum required for that business, but neither of these prohibitions shall apply to,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) any arrangement for giving any director any security and indemnity in respect of money lent by him to or obligations undertaken by him for the benefit of the company; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) any arrangement for the giving by the company of any security to a third party in respect of a debt or obligation of the company for which the director himself has assumed responsibility in whole or in part under a guarantee or indemnity or by the deposit of a security; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) any contract by a director to subscribe for or underwrite shares or debentures of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(8) A copy of every declaration made and notice given in pursuance of this section shall, within three days after the making or giving thereof, be entered in a book kept for this purpose.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(9) Such book shall be open for inspection without charge by any director, secretary, auditor or member of the company at the registered office of the company and shall be produced at every general meeting of the company, and at any meeting of the directors if any director so requests in sufficient time to enable the book to be available at the meeting.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(10) Any director who fails to comply with any of the provisions of this section and any officer who fails to comply with subsections (5) and (6) of this section shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(11) If a company fails to comply with subsections (8) and (9) of this section the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds and if any inspection or production required thereunder is refused the Court may by order compel an immediate inspection or production.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(12) For the purpose of this section an interest merely as holder of debentures, or of not more than two per centum of the shares or any class of shares, of a public company shall not be deemed to be a material interest.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 208—Directors Acting Professionally.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Unless otherwise provided in the company''s Regulations, any director may, notwithstanding section 205 of this Code, act by himself or his firm in a professional capacity for the company, except as auditor, and he or his firm shall be entitled to proper remuneration for professional services as if he were not a director.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 209—Civil Liabilities for Breach of Duty.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">If a director commits any breach of his duties under sections 203 to 205 of this Code,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) the director and any other person who knowingly participated in the breach shall be liable to compensate the company for any loss it suffers as a result of such breach;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) the director shall account to the company for any profit made by him as a result of such breach; and</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) any contract or other transaction entered into between the director and the company in breach of such duties may be rescinded by the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 210—Legal Proceedings to Enforce Liabilities.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Proceedings to enforce the liabilities referred to in the immediately preceding section or to restrain a threatened breach of any duty under sections 203 to 205 of this Code or to recover from any director of the company any property of the company may be instituted by the company or by any member of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Proceedings may be instituted by the company on the authority of the board of directors or of any receiver and manager or liquidator of the company, or of an ordinary resolution of the company which shall either have been agreed to by all the members of the company entitled to attend and vote at a general meeting or have been passed at a general meeting.&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) At such general meeting neither the proposed defendants nor the holders of any shares in which they or any of them are beneficially interested shall vote on such resolution and if they do vote their votes shall not be counted.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) After an investigation of the affairs of the company, proceedings may, pursuant to section 225 of this Code, also be instituted in the name of the company by the Registrar.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) Where proceedings are instituted by a member he shall sue in a representative capacity on behalf of himself and all other members, except any that are defendants to the action, and shall join the company as a defendant; and to any such representative action the provisions of section 324 of this Code shall apply.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(6) The Court, on the application of any defendant, may stay proceedings by such member if satisfied that, in all the circumstances, including his participation in the transaction complained of and the circumstances in which he became a member, it is inequitable that he should be allowed to have the conduct of the action, and may, if it shall think fit order such member to give security for payment of the costs of the defendants and may direct that the action or any part of it shall be heard in chambers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(7) No period of limitation shall apply to any proceedings under this section, but in any such proceedings the Court may relieve a director from liability in whole or in part and on such terms as it thinks fit if, in all the circumstances including lapse of time, the Court thinks it equitable so to do.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(8) In any proceedings under this section the Court shall have power when justice so requires, to order that any sum found to be payable by any defendant shall be restored, in whole or in part, to members or former members of the company instead of to the company itself; and in that event the Court may order that the necessary enquiries shall be made to ascertain the identity of the members and former members concerned and may give such consequential directions as may be necessary or expedient.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(9) No proceedings under this section shall be dismissed, settled or compromised without the approval of the Court after notice of the proposed dismissal, settlement or compromise has been given to all members of the company and to the Registrar in such manner as the Court directs.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(10) Within the time prescribed by such notice any member of the company and the Registrar may appear and call the attention of the Court to any matters which seem relevant and may give evidence and call witnesses.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(11) If the Court shall not approve the dismissal or compromise it may give the conduct of the action to any member willing to continue the same, or to the Registrar in the name of the company, making such consequential orders regarding the parties to the action or otherwise as may be necessary or expedient.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 211—Payments to Directors for Loss of Office or on Transfer of the Company''s Undertaking.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) It shall not be lawful for a company to make to any director or former director of the company or any associated company any payment by way of compensation for loss of any office in the company or any associated company, or as consideration for or in connection with his retirement from office, without particulars with respect to the proposed payment, including the amount thereof, being disclosed to the members of the company and the proposal being approved by an ordinary resolution of the company agreed to or passed in the manner provided by section 206 of this Code.&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) It shall not be lawful for any payment to be made, whether by the company or otherwise, to any director or former director of a company in connection with the transfer of the whole or any part of the undertaking or property of the company or any associated company, whether such payment is expressed to be by way of compensation for loss of office or otherwise, unless particulars with respect to the proposed payment, including the amount thereof have been disclosed to the members of the company and the proposal approved by an ordinary resolution of the company agreed to or passed in the manner provided by section 206 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) If any payment shall be made in contravention of this section the amount thereof shall be deemed to be money of the company used by a director for his own advantage within the meaning of section 205 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 212—Payments to Directors in Connection with Takeover Bids.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Where an offer is made for the acquisition of any shares of a company on the terms that the same is available for acceptance,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) by all the shareholders of the company or by all the holders of shares of the class to which the offer relates, or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) by the holders of shares which, together with any shares already owned beneficially by the person making the offer or by any body corporate in which he is the controlling shareholder, confer the right to exercise or control the exercise of not less than one-third of the voting power at any general meeting of the company,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">and in connection with such an offer it is proposed that a payment shall be made or a payment has been made to any director or former director of the company or any associated company, over and above the receipt by him in respect of any shares in the company held by him of the same price as may be receivable by other holders of the shares of the same class, it shall be the duty of that director to take all reasonable steps to secure that particulars of the payment are included in or sent with any notice of the offer made for their shares which is given to any shareholders.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) If,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) any such director fails to take reasonable steps as aforesaid, or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) any person who has been properly required by any such director to include the said particulars in or send them with any such notice fails to do so,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) Unless,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) the requirements of subsection (1) of this section are complied with, and</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) the making of the payment is, before the transfer of any shares in pursuance of the offer, approved by an ordinary resolution,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(i) agreed to by all the holders of the shares to which the offer relates, or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 72pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(ii) passed at a meeting, summoned for the purpose by notice complying with subsection (5) of this section, of such holders at which neither the director concerned nor the holders of any shares in which he is beneficially interested, either directly or indirectly, shall have voted on such resolution,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">such payment shall be distributed in the manner provided by the next succeeding subsection.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) Where a payment is to be distributed in accordance with the provisions of the immediately foregoing subsection, the person making or proposing to make such payment and the director or former director to whom it is made or proposed to be made shall be jointly and severally liable to distribute the same among any persons who have sold their shares as a result of the offer in proportion to the number of shares sold by them, and if any director or former director shall receive any such payment he shall hold the same on trust for such persons:&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) the expenses incurred in distributing such payment shall be borne by the persons liable to make the distribution and not retained out of the payment;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) if, in proceedings instituted prior to the expiration of three months from the first transfer of any shares in pursuance of the offer, the Court shall award or approve the payment of damages to such director or former director for breach of any valid service agreement, the amount of any such damages, but not of any costs or expenses incurred in connection with such proceedings, shall be paid to or retained by the director or former director out of such payment and only the balance thereof, if any, shall be distributable as aforesaid.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) The notice of any general meeting summoned for the purposes of subsection (3) of this section shall be convened, held and conducted as nearly as may be in accordance with the provisions of this Code and the company''s Regulations relating to general meetings of the company, and the notices convening the meeting shall state that if the resolution approving the payment is not passed the payment will be distributable among the persons who have sold their shares in pursuance of the offer except to the extent that the Court may award or approve the payment to the director or former director concerned of damages for breach of a valid service agreement.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(6) It shall not be lawful for such an offer as is referred to in subsection (1) of this section to be made conditional upon approval of a payment or proposed payment to any director or former director and, if an offer is expressed to be made subject to such a condition, the condition shall be void and of no effect.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(7) For the purposes of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of this section,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) when the offer is made by a body corporate, shares shall be deemed to be owned beneficially by such body corporate if they are owned beneficially by it or by any of its associated companies or by any controlling shareholders of it; and</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) a person shall be deemed to be a controlling shareholder of a body corporate if such body corporate or its directors are accustomed to act in accordance with the directions or instruction of such person or his nominee or if, at a general meeting of such body corporate, such person is entitled to exercise or control the exercise of one-third or more of the voting power.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 213—Provisions Supplemental to Sections 211 and 212.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) For the purposes of sections 211 and 212 of this Code and of this section the expression "payment" includes any benefit or advantage whether in cash or in kind.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) sections 211 and 212 of this Code shall not render unlawful or apply to the payment of damages awarded or approved by any competent court for breach of any valid service agreement or the bona fide payment of any pension or superannuation benefit in respect of past services in accordance with a valid service agreement.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) For the purposes of subsection (4) of section 212 of this Code and the immediately preceding subsection, a service agreement shall not be deemed to be valid if it shall have been entered into in contemplation of such a transfer as is referred to in subsection (2) of section 211 of this Code or of such an offer as is referred to in subsection (1) of section 212 of this Code, and unless the contrary is proved the service agreement shall be deemed to have been entered into in contemplation of such transfer or offer if it is made within one year before or contemporaneously with, or at any time after the date of the agreement to transfer or the making of the offer.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) For the purposes of sections 211 and 212 of this Code if,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) any payment, not being remuneration properly payable in accordance with section 194 of this Code, is received by a director or former director within a period of one year before, or two years after the date of the agreement to make such transfer as is referred to in subsection (2) of section 211 of this Code or of the date of making such an offer as is referred to in subsection (1) of section 212 of this Code, and</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) the company or the person to whom such transfer or by whom such offer was made was privy to the making of the payment,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">such payment shall be deemed to have been received by him in connection with the transfer or offer unless he proves that the payment would have been received by him whether or not the transfer or offer had been made.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 214—Duties of Directors in Connection with Sales or Purchases of the Company''s Securities.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) If a director of a company, having acquired as such director any special information which may substantially affect the value of the shares or debentures of the company or any associated company, shall buy or sell any such shares or debentures without disclosing such information to the seller or purchaser thereof, the purchase or sale shall be voidable at the option of the seller or purchaser within twelve months after the date of the agreement to sell or buy.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) For the purposes of this section any shares or debentures bought or sold shall be deemed to have been bought or sold by a director if his interest therein is such as to require recording in relation to him in the register to be maintained in accordance with section 215 of this Code, unless it is proved that the sale or purchase was not made by him or on his instructions or advice or on the instructions or advice of any other person to whom he had imparted any special information affecting the value of the shares or debentures obtained by him in his capacity of director.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) This section shall not prejudice the right of the company to proceed against any director for breach of section 205 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 215—Register of Directors'' Holdings.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Every company shall keep a register showing, as respects each director of the company, the number and description and, in the case of debentures, the amount, of any shares in or debentures of the company or any associated company of which he is the holder or in which he has, directly or indirectly, any beneficial interest or right to acquire, or of which he has an option to buy or sell:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that the register need not include shares in any body corporate which is the wholly owned subsidiary of another body corporate.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) The nature and extent of a director''s interest in any shares or debentures recorded in relation to him in the said register shall, if he so requires, be indicated in the register.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) Where any shares or debentures fail to be or cease to be recorded in the said register in relation to any director by reason of a transaction entered into after the commencement of this Code and while he is a director, the register shall also show the date of, and price or other consideration for the transaction; and where there is an interval between the agreement for any such transaction and the completion thereof, the date shown shall be that of the agreement.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) The register shall be kept at the same place as the register of members maintained in accordance with section 32 of this Code, and shall be open to inspection during business hours, subject to such reasonable restrictions as the company''s Regulations may impose but so that not less than two hours in each day, other than Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays, be allowed for inspection, by any member or debentureholder or any former member or debentureholder or by the auditor of the company or by the Registrar.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) The register shall also be produced at the commencement of any general meeting of the company and remain open and accessible during the continuance of the meeting to any person attending the meeting.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(6) It shall be the duty of any director of the company to give notice to the company of such matters relating to himself as may be necessary for the purposes of complying with subsections (1) and (3) of this section.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(7) Any such notice shall be in writing and shall be given within twenty-eight days after the commencement of this Code and within twenty-eight days after the occurrence of any transaction occurring thereafter which requires recording.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(8) If the notice is not given at a meeting of directors, the director giving it shall take reasonable steps to secure that it is brought up and read at the next meeting of directors after it is given.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(9) If default is made in complying with subsections (6), (7) and (8) of this section, the director concerned shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds for each default.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(10) If default is made in complying with subsection (1), (3), (4) or (5) of this section the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds and if any inspection required under subsections (4) and (5) is refused the Court may by order compel an immediate inspection of the register.&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(11) The company shall not, by virtue of anything done for the purposes of this section, be affected with notice of, or put upon enquiry as to, the right of any person in relation to any shares and debentures.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(12) For the purposes of this section a director shall be deemed to be beneficially interested in shares or debentures if a body corporate holds them or has any right in or over them and that body corporate or its directors are accustomed to act in accordance with his directions or instructions, or he is entitled to exercise or control the exercise of one-third or more of the voting power at any general meeting of that body corporate.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 216—General Saving of Existing Law Relating to Officers.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The rights, duties and liabilities of officers and agents of companies shall continue to be governed by the rules of the common law and equity relating to principal and agent and master and servant save in so far as such rules are inconsistent with the express provisions of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Part R—Protection against Illegal or Oppressive Action</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 217—Injunction or Declaration in the Event of Illegal or Irregular Activity.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) The Court on the application of any member may by injunction restrain the company from doing any act or entering into any transaction which is illegal or beyond the power or capacity of the company or which infringes any provision of its Regulations, or from acting on any resolution not properly passed in accordance with this Code and the company''s Regulations, and may declare any such act, transaction or resolution already done, entered into, or passed to be void and of no effect:&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Provided that,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) nothing in this section contained shall derogate from the protection afforded by any provision of this Code to any person dealing with the company;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) in relation to acts beyond the capacity or power of the company, this section shall be subject and without prejudice to the provisions of section 25 of this Code;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) the right afforded to a member to apply to the Court under this section shall be without prejudice to any right he may have to institute proceedings against any director of the company pursuant to section 210 or to apply to the Court under section 218 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) In any proceedings by a member under this section the Court may, if it shall think fit, order that the member shall give security for the costs of the company and may direct that the application shall be heard in chambers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 218—Remedy Against Oppression.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) Any member or debentureholder of a company or, in a case falling within section 225 of this Code, the Registrar may apply to the Court for an order under this section on the ground</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) that the affairs of the company are being conducted or the powers of the directors are being conducted or the powers of the directors are being exercised in a manner oppressive to one or more of the members or debentureholders or in disregard of his or their proper interests as members, shareholders, officers, or debentureholders of the company; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) that some act of the company has been done or is threatened or that some resolution of the members, debentureholders or any class of them has been passed or is proposed which unfairly discriminates against, or is otherwise unfairly prejudicial to, one or more of the members or debentureholders.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) If on such application the Court is of opinion that either of such grounds is established, the Court may, with a view to bringing to an end or remedying the matters complained of, make such order as it thinks fit: and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing may by order,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) direct or prohibit any act or cancel or vary any transaction or resolution; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) regulate the conduct of the company''s affairs in future; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) provide for the purchase of the shares or debentures of any members or debentureholders of the company by other members or debentureholders of the company or by the company itself and in the case of purchase of shares by the company without regard to the limitations imposed by sections 59 to 63, other than subsections (4) and (5) of section 59 of this Code.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) Where an order under this section makes any alteration in or addition to any of the company''s Regulations then, notwithstanding anything in any other provision of this Code but subject to any provisions of the order, the company shall not have power without the leave of the Court to make any further alteration in or addition to the Regulations inconsistent with the provisions or the order.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) An office copy of any order under this section altering or adding to the company''s Regulations shall, within twenty-eight days after the making thereof, be delivered by the company to the Registrar for registration; and if a company makes default in complying with this subsection the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) On any application under this section by a member or debentureholder of the company the Court, if it thinks fit, may order the application to give security for the costs of the company and may direct that the application shall be heard in chambers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 219—Enquiries by the Registrar.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) In order to ensure that the provisions of sections 123 to 133 of this Code (relating to the maintenance and auditing of accounts) are being duly complied with the Registrar may by written order call on any company to produce for his inspection all or any of the books of the company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) Where it appears to the Registrar that there are circumstances suggesting in relation to any company,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) that any provisions of this Code are not being complied with, or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) that any document which the company is required to send to him under the provisions of this Code does not disclose a full and fair statement of the matters to which it purports to relate, or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) that the business of the company is being conducted with intent to defraud its creditors or the creditors of any other person or otherwise for a fraudulent or unlawful purpose or that the business of the company is being conducted or the powers of the directors are being exercised in a manner oppressive to some part of the members or debentureholders or in disregard of their proper interests as members, shareholders, officers or debentureholders, or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(d) that persons concerned with its formation or the management of its affairs have in connection therewith been guilty of a breach of duty towards it or its members, or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(e) that the members of the company have not been given all the information with respect to its affairs that they might reasonably expect,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">the Registrar may by written order call on the company to produce for his inspection all or any of the books of the company or to furnish in writing such information or explanation as he may specify in his order.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) Where the Registrar makes an order under subsection (1) or (2) of this section the company shall comply with the same within such time as may be specified in the order and all persons who are or have been officers of the company shall, so far as lies within their power, produce such books or furnish such information or explanation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(4) If the company shall make default in complying with subsection (3) of this section the company and any officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds and if any officer or former officer of the company shall make default in complying with the said subsection (3) he shall likewise be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(5) Unless the books, information, or explanations produced or given to the Registrar in accordance with the provisions of this section satisfy the Registrar that further action is not needed, he shall either proceed in accordance with section 225 of this Code or report the circumstances in writing to the Court.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(6) Nothing in this section shall require any company licensed under section 24 of the Companies Ordinance (Cap. 193) or any statutory re-enactment or modifications thereof, to carry on banking business to produce its books containing details of the accounts with it of its banking customers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 220—Appointment of Inspector under Order of the Court.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) The Court may order the Registrar to appoint one or more competent inspectors to investigate the affairs of a company and to report thereon to the Registrar in such manner as the Court directs,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) upon a report by the Registrar after enquiries by him in accordance with section 219 of this Code;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) upon the application of the Registrar; or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(c) upon the application of not less than one hundred members or of members holding not less than one-tenth of the issued shares or of members being not less than one-tenth in number of the total members.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) When the application is made under paragraph (c) of the foregoing subsection,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) the application shall be supported by such evidence as the Court may require for the purpose of showing that the applicants have good reason for requiring the investigation; and the Court may, before ordering the appointment of an inspector, require the applicants to give security to an amount not exceeding two hundred pounds for payment of the costs of the investigation;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) at least fourteen days'' previous notice of the application shall be given to the Registrar who shall be entitled to be represented at the hearing and to give evidence and call witnesses.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) Any application under this section shall be heard in chambers and at least fourteen days'' previous notice thereof shall be given to the company which shall be entitled to be represented at the hearing and to give evidence and call witnesses.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 221—Appointment of Inspector on Special Resolution of the Company.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The Registrar shall appoint one or more competent inspectors to investigate the affairs of a company and to report thereon to the Registrar in such manner as the Registrar shall direct if the company by special resolution declares that its affairs ought to be investigated by an inspector appointed by the Registrar.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 222—Power to Carry Investigation into the Affairs of Associated Companies.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">If an inspector appointed under either of the two last foregoing sections to investigate the affairs of a company thinks it necessary for the purposes of his investigation to investigate also the affairs to any other body corporate which is or has at any relevant time been the company''s associated company, he shall have power so to do, and shall report on the affairs of the other body corporate so far as he thinks the results of his investigation thereof are relevant to the investigation of the affairs of the first-mentioned company.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Section 223—Production of Documents and Evidence.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(1) It shall be the duty of all officers and agents of the company and of all officers and agents of any other body corporate whose affairs are investigated by virtue of the immediately preceding section to produce to the inspectors all books and documents of or relating to the company or, as the case may be, the other body corporate which are in their custody or power and otherwise to give to the inspectors all assistance in connection with the investigation which they are reasonably able to give.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(2) An inspector may examine on oath the officers and agents of the company or other body corporate in relation to its business and may administer an oath accordingly.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(3) If any officer or agent of the company or other body corporate,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(a) destroys or refuses to produce to the inspectors any book or document which it is his duty under this section so to produce, or</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(b) refuses to answer any question which is put to him by the inspectors with respect to the affairs of the company or other body corporate, as the case may be,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">the inspectors may certify the facts in writing to the Court, and