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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.

(1)

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.

(2)

If the records are not kept in Sri Lanka—

(a)

the company shall ensure that the accounts and returns of the operations of the company—

(i)

disclose with reasonable accuracy the financial position of the company at intervals not exceeding periods of six months; and

(ii)

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

(b)

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.

(3)

Where a company fails to comply with the requirements of subsection (2)—

(a)

the company shall be guilty of an offence and be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred thousand rupees; and

(b)

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

Part VIII

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

Part XIII

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

Application of Act to Existing Companies

Part XVIII

Overseas Companies

Part XIX

Advisory Commission

Part XX

Companies Disputes Board

Part XXI

Offences Miscellaneous Offences

Part XXII

Miscellaneous Prohibition of Partnership with More Than Twenty Members

Part XXIII

Repeals and Amendments

Schedules