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PART V - Constitution Of Registration Office

Appointment of Registrar of companies etc.

207.(1) The Governor may appoint a Registrar of Companies and such

other officers as be, necessary for the administration of this Act.

(2) The Governor may make regulations with respect to the duties to be

performed by such Registrar and may determine the place or places at which an

office or offices for the registration of companies is or are to be established.

(3) There shall be paid to the Registrar in respect of the several matters

mentioned in the table marked, in the First Schedule, the several fees therein

specified, and all fees authorized by and paid under this Act shall be paid into the

Treasury.

(4) Any person may inspect the documents kept by the Registrar, and may

require a certificate of the incorporation on any company, or extract of any

document or part of a document to be certified by the Registrar, and there shall be

paid for such inspection, and for such certificate of incorporation, or certified

copy or extract, the respective fees specified in the table marked B in the First

Schedule, and such certificate of incorporation or certified copy or extract shall be

prima facie evidence of the matters therein contained in all legal proceedings

whatever.

(5) The Registrar of High Court shall be ex-officio the Registrar of

Companies, until an appointment is made under subsection (1).

Power of company to keep registers in UK or British Territories

208.(1) Any company whose objects comprise the transaction of business

in the United Kingdom, or in any British Territory, may, if authorized to do so

by its regulations as originally framed or as altered by special resolution, cause to

be kept in that part of the United Kingdom or in any such Territory in which it

transacts business a branch register or registers of members resident in the

United Kingdom, or in such Territory.

(2) The company shall given to the Registrar notice of the situation of the

office where any such branch register (in this section called a British register) is

kept, and of any change therein, and of the discontinuance of any such office in

the event of the same being discontinued.

(3) A British register shall, as regards the particulars entered therein, be

deemed to be a part of the company's register of members, and shall be prima

facie evidence of all particulars entered therein. Any such register shall be kept in

the manner provided by this Act, with this qualification, that the advertisement

mentioned in section 56 shall be inserted in some newspaper circulating in the

district wherein the register to be closed is kept, and that any competent Court in

the United Kingdom or such Territory where such register is kept, shall be

entitled to exercise the same jurisdiction of rectifying the same as is by section 58

vested in the Supreme Court of the Territory, and that all offences under section

55 may, as regards a British register, be prosecuted summarily before any

tribunal in the United Kingdom or such Territory where such register is kept,

having summary criminal jurisdiction.

(4) The company shall transmit to its registered office a copy of every entry in

its British register or registers as soon as may be after such entry is made, and the

company shall cause to be kept at its registered office, duly entered up from time

to time, a duplicate or duplicates of its British register or registers. The

provisions of section 55 shall apply to every such duplicate, and every such

duplicate shall, for all the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be part of the

(5) Subject to the provisions of this Act with respect to the duplicate register,

the shares registered in a British register shall be distinguished from the shares

registered in the principal register, and no transaction with respect to any shares

registered in a British register shall, during the continuance of the registration of

such shares in such British register, be registered in any other register.

(6) The company may discontinue to keep any British register, and there upon

all entries in that register shall be transferred to some other British register kept

by the company in the United Kingdom or in such Territory, or to the register of

members kept at the registered office of the company.

(7) Subject to the provisions of this section, any company may, by its

regulations as originally framed or as altered by special resolution, make such

provisions as it may think fit respecting the keeping of British registers.

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