Companies (Amendment) Act, 1983
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Experts' reports: supplementary. |
31.—(1) Any person carrying out a valuation or making a report under section 30 with respect to any consideration proposed to be accepted or given by a company shall be entitled to require from the officers of the company such information and explanation as he thinks necessary to enable him to carry out the valuation or to make the report and provide a note, under that section. | |
(2) A company to which such a report is made as to the value of any consideration for which, or partly for which, it proposes to allot shares shall deliver a copy of the report to the registrar of companies for registration at the same time that it files the return of the allotments of those shares under section 58 of the Principal Act, and subsections (3) and (4) of that section shall apply to a default in complying with this subsection as they apply to a default in complying with that section. | ||
(3) Any person who knowingly or recklessly makes a statement which— | ||
(a) is misleading, false or deceptive in a material particular, and | ||
(b) is a statement to which this subsection applies, | ||
shall be guilty of an offence. | ||
(4) Subsection (3) applies to any statement made (whether orally or in writing) to any person carrying out a valuation or making a report under section 30 , being a statement which conveys or purports to convey any information or explanation which that person requires, or is entitled to require, under subsection (1). |