Companies Act 2007 · As enacted · Part VII · Management and Administration Registered Office
149. Place where accounting records are kept
Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.
Official translationFrom Department of Government Printing, unchanged
A company shall keep its accounting records in Sri Lanka. However, where the Registrar considers it not prejudicial to the national economy or to the interests of shareholders of the company, he may permit a company to keep its accounting records outside Sri Lanka.
If the records are not kept in Sri Lanka—
the company shall ensure that the accounts and returns of the operations of the company—
disclose with reasonable accuracy the financial position of the company at intervals not exceeding periods of six months; and
will enable the preparation in accordance with this Act of the company’s financial statements and any group financial statements and any other document required to be maintained under this Act, are sent to and kept at a place in Sri Lanka; and
notice of the place where the accounting records and the accounts and returns required under paragraph (a) are kept, shall be given to the Registrar.
Where a company fails to comply with the requirements of subsection (2)—
the company shall be guilty of an offence and be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred thousand rupees; and
every officer of the company who is in default shall be guilty of an offence and be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred thousand rupees.
DUTY TO PREPARE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
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Amalgamations
Part IX
Compromises with Creditors
Part X
Approval of Arrangements, Amalgamations, and Compromises by Court
Part XI
Provisions Relating to Offshore Companies
Part XII
Winding Up
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Administrators Appointment of Administrator
Part XIV
Floating Charges
Part XV
Receivers and Managers
Part XVI
Registrar-General of Companies and Registration Appointment of Officers
Part XVII
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Part XVIII
Overseas Companies
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Advisory Commission
Part XX
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Part XXI
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Miscellaneous Prohibition of Partnership with More Than Twenty Members
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