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Share certificates
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99. (1) A certificate under the common seal of the company specifying any shares held by any member shall be prima facie evidence of the title of the member to the shares.
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(2) A company shall, within 2 months after the date—
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(a) of allotment of any of its shares or debentures; or
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(b) on which a transfer of any such shares or debentures is lodged with the company,
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complete and have ready for delivery the certificates of all shares and debentures allotted or, as the case may be, transferred, unless the conditions of issue of the shares or debentures otherwise provide.
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(3) In subsection (2) “transfer” means a transfer that is (where appropriate) duly stamped and is otherwise valid and does not include such a transfer as the company is, for any reason, entitled to refuse to register and does not register.
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(4) If any company on which a notice has been served requiring the company to make good any default in complying with the provisions of subsection (2), fails to make good the default within 10 days after the date of service of the notice, the person entitled to have the certificates or the debentures delivered to him or her may apply to the court for, and the court on such an application may grant, the following order.
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(5) That order is one directing the company and any officer of the company specified in the order to make good the default within such time as may be specified in the order, and any such order may provide that all costs of and incidental to the application shall be borne by the company or by any officer of it responsible for the default.
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(6) If a share certificate is defaced, lost or destroyed, it may be renewed on payment of €10.00 or such lesser sum and on such terms (if any) as to evidence and indemnity and the payment of out-of-pocket expenses of the company of investigating evidence as the directors of the company think fit.
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(7) If a member of a company so requests, the member shall be entitled to receive from the company one or more certificates for one or more shares held by the member upon payment, in respect of each certificate, of €10.00 or such lesser sum as the directors of the company think fit.
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(8) In respect of a share or shares in a company held jointly by several persons—
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(a) the company shall not be bound to issue more than one certificate; and
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(b) delivery by the company of a certificate for a share to one of several joint holders shall be sufficient delivery to all such holders.
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(9) If a company contravenes subsection (2), the company and any officer of it who is in default shall be guilty of a category 4 offence.
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