Companies Act, 1990
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Provisions relating to register. |
60.—(1) The register to be kept under section 59 shall be so made up that the entries therein against the several names inscribed therein appear in chronological order. | |
(2) An obligation imposed by section 59 (2) to (4) shall be fulfilled before the expiration of the period of 3 days beginning with the day next following that on which it arises. | ||
(3) The nature and extent of an interest recorded in the said register of a director or secretary in any shares or debentures shall, if he so requires, be recorded in the said register. | ||
(4) The company shall not, by virtue of anything done for the purposes of this section, be affected with notice of, or put upon inquiry as to, the rights of any person in relation to any shares or debentures. | ||
(5) The said register shall— | ||
(a) if the company's register of members is kept at its registered office, be kept there; | ||
(b) if the company's register of members is not so kept, be kept at the company's registered office or at the place where its register of members is kept; | ||
and shall during business hours (subject to such reasonable restrictions as the company in general meeting may 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 30p or such less sum as the company may prescribe for each inspection. | ||
(6) The company shall send notice to the registrar of companies of the place where the said register is kept and of any change in that place, save in a case in which it has at all times been kept at its registered office. | ||
(7) Unless the said register is in such a form as to constitute in itself an index, the company shall keep an index of the names entered therein which shall— | ||
(a) in respect of each name, contain a sufficient indication to enable the information inscribed against it to be readily found; and | ||
(b) be kept at the same place as the said register; | ||
and the company shall, within 14 days after the date on which a name is entered in the said register, make any necessary alteration in the index. | ||
(8) Any member of the company or other person may require a copy of the said register, or of any part thereof, on payment of 15p or such less sum as the company may prescribe, for every hundred words or fractional part thereof required to be copied. | ||
The company shall cause any copy so required by any person to be sent to that person within the period of 10 days beginning with the day next following that on which the requirement is received by the company. | ||
(9) The said register shall also be and remain open and accessible to any person attending the company's annual general meeting at least one quarter hour before the appointed time for the commencement of the meeting and during the continuance of the meeting. | ||
(10) If default is made in compliance with subsection (9), the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding £1,000; and if default is made for 14 days in complying with subsection (6) the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding £1,000; and if default is made in complying with section 59 or with subsection (1), (2) or (7) of this section or if an inspection required under this section is refused or any copy required thereunder is not sent within the proper period the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding £1,000. | ||
(11) In the case of a refusal of an inspection required under this section of the said register, the court may by order compel an immediate inspection thereof; and in the case of a failure to send within the proper period a copy required under this section, the court may by order direct that the copy required shall be sent to the person requiring it. |