Companies (Amendment) (No. 2) Act, 1999

Exercise of power to strike company off register where it is not carrying on business.

48.—The fact that for the time being, in consequence of the forwarding to the registrar, under and in accordance with subsections (11A) and (11B) of section 195 of the Principal Act, of a copy of a notice of resignation or other documentary proof of a person's having ceased to be a director of the company concerned, there are no persons recorded in the office of the registrar of companies as being directors of a particular company shall, for the purposes of section 311 of the Principal Act, afford the registrar of companies good grounds for believing that the company is not carrying on business, and for so believing with the cause requisite for the exercise by him or her of the powers conferred by subsection (1) of that section 311 in relation to the company.