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| (1) Every company shall keep at its registered office a register of its directors and secretaries containing with respect to each of them the following particulars, that is to say :-
| | (a) in the case of an individual, his present name and surname, any former name or surname, his usual residential address, his nationality, and, if that nationality is not the nationality of origin, his nationality of origin, his business occupation, if any, and particulars of any other directorships, held by him; and | | |
| | (b) in the case of a corporation, its corporate name and registered or principal office : | | |
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| (2) The company shall send to the Registrar, within fourteen days from the date of appointment of the first director or that of the secretary of the company, a return in the prescribed form containing the particulars specified in the register referred to in subsection (1) and within fourteen days from the date of any change among its directors or any change of its secretary or in any of the particulars contained in such register a notification in the prescribed form together with, in the case of a change among its directors or a change of its secretary, a letter to the Registrar from each new director or the secretary stating that such director or the secretary has accepted the appointment. |
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| (3) The register to be kept under the provisions of this section shall during business hours (subject to such reason able restrictions as the company may by its articles or in general meeting impose, so that not less than two hours in each day be allowed for inspection) be open to the inspection of any member of the company without charge and of any other person on payment of ten rupees, or such less sum as the company may prescribe for each inspection. |
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| (4) Where any inspection required under the provisions of subsection (3) is refused or where default is made in com plying with the provisions of subsection (1) or subsection (2), the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a default fine. |
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| (5) Where any inspection required under the provisions of subsection (3) is refused unreasonably, in the case of any such refusal, the court may by order compel an immediate inspection of the register. |
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| (6) For the purposes of this section, a person in accordance with whose directions or instructions the directors of a company are accustomed to act shall be deemed to be a director and officer of the company. |
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