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Part VII · Management and Administration Registered Office

193. Avoidance of transaction

Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.

(1)

A transaction entered into by the company in which a director of the company is interested, may be avoided by the company at any time before the expiration of six months after the transaction, and the director’s interest in it have been disclosed to all the shareholders (whether by means of the company’s annual report or otherwise).

(2)

A transaction shall not be avoided under this section if the company receives fair value under it.

(3)

For the purposes of subsection (2), the question whether a company receives fair value under a transaction shall be determined on the basis of the information known to the company and to the interested director, at the time the transaction is entered into.

(4)

If a transaction is entered into by the company in the ordinary course of its business and on usual terms and conditions, the company shall be presumed to have received fair value under the transaction.

(5)

For the purposes of this section —

(a)

a person seeking to uphold a transaction and who knew or ought to have known of the director’s interest at the time the transaction was entered into, shall have the burden of establishing fair value; and

(b)

in any other case, the company shall have the burden of establishing that it did not receive fair value.

(6)

A transaction in which a director is interested shall not be avoided on the ground of the director’s interest, other than pursuant to this section or the company’s articles.

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