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Inspection of register.
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32. The register of members, commencing from the date of the registration of the company, shall be kept at the registered office of the company herein-after mentioned: Except when closed as herein-after mentioned, it shall during business hours, but subject to such reasonable restrictions as the company in general meeting may impose, so that not less than two hours in each day be appointed for inspection, be open to the inspection of any member gratis, and to the inspection of any other person on the payment of one shilling, or such less sum as the company may prescribe, for each inspection; and every such member or other person may require a copy of such register, or of any part thereof, or of such list or summary of members as is herein-before mentioned, on payment of sixpence for every hundred words required to be copied: If such inspection or copy is refused, the company shall incur for each refusal a penalty not exceeding two pounds, and a further penalty not exceeding two pounds for every day during which such refusal continues; and every director and manager of the company who shall knowingly authorize or permit such refusal shall incur the like penalty; and in addition to the above penalty, as respects companies registered in England and Ireland, any judge sitting in chambers, or the vice warden of the Stannaries, in the case of companies subject to his jurisdiction, may by order compel an immediate inspection of the register.
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