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Part VII · Management and Administration Registered Office

223. Register of directors and secretaries

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

(1)

Every company shall keep at its registered office or at such other place as may be notified to the Registrar under section 116, a register of its directors and secretaries containing with respect to each of them, the following particulars :—

(a)

in the case of an individual, the present name and surname, any former name or surname, usual residential address and business occupation;

(b)

in the case of a secretary which is a corporation, its corporate name and registered or principal office.

(2)

The company shall ensure that notice in the prescribed form of—

(a)

a change in the directors or the secretary of the company; or

(b)

a change in the particulars contained in the register in respect of a director or secretary of the company, is delivered to the Registrar for registration.

(3)

A notice under subsection (2) shall—

(a)

specify the date of the change;

(b)

in the case of the appointment of a new director or secretary, have annexed to the notice the form of consent and certificate required under section 203

or subsection (2) of section 211, as the case may be;

and

(c)

be delivered to the Registrar within twenty working days of—

(i)

the change occurring, in the case of the appointment or resignation of a director or secretary; or

(ii)

the company first becoming aware of the change, in the case of the death of a director or secretary or a change in the particulars contained in the register in respect of a director or secretary.

(4)

Where a company fails to comply with this section—

(a)

the company shall be guilty of an offence and be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding one 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 fifty thousand rupees.

PREVENTION OF OPPRESSION AND MISMANAGEMENT

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