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| (1) The Registrar may require any person to furnish, to him within such time as he may specify such particulars as appear necessary to him for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not such person or the firm of which he is a partner should be registered under this Act or an alteration made in the registered particulars, and may also in the case of a corporation require the secretary or any other officer of a corporation performing the duties of secretary to furnish such particulars. |
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| (2) Any person who fails to supply the particulars required under subsection (1) within the period specified by the Registrar or within such further period as he may allow or who furnishes particulars which are false shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction after summary trial, before a Magistrate be liable to imprisonment of either description for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding two thousand rupees or to both such imprisonment and fine. |
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| (3) In any proceedings under subsection (2) the court may, where it thinks fit, order that person to furnish or have furnished to the Registrar such particulars or such corrected particulars within such time as may be specified in that order. |
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| (4) If, from any information so furnished, it appears to the Registrar that any firm or person ought to be registered under this Act, or an alteration ought to be made in the registered particulars, he may require the firm or person to furnish him the required particulars within such time as allowed to him, but where any default under this Act has been discovered from the information acquired under this Act has been discovered from the information acquired under this section, no proceeding under this Act shall be taken against any person in respect of such default prior to the expiration of time within which the firm or person is required by the Registrar under this section to furnish particulars to him. |
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