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Companies Act 2007 · As enacted · Part XVI · Registrar-General of Companies and Registration Appointment of Officers

473. Registers to be kept

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

(1)

The Registrar shall establish and maintain a

(a)

of companies registered or deemed to be registered under this Act ; and

(b)

of overseas companies registered or deemed to be registered under this Act.

(2)

The Register may be kept in such manner as the

Registrar thinks fit, including either wholly or partly by means of a device or facility that—

(a)

records or stores information electronically or by other means ; and

(b)

permits that information to be readily inspected or reproduced in legible form.

(3)

The Minister may make regulations—

(a)

identifying or categorizing documents which may be destroyed by the Registrar under subsection (4) ; and

(b)

providing for all such matters as may become necessary, to give effect to any device or facility kept by the Registrar under subsection (2) for recording information.

(4)

The Registrar shall have the power to destroy all such documents prescribed under paragraph (a) of subsection (3).

(5)

Where the Registrar reproduces electronically or by any other means any document prior to its destruction, such reproduced document shall for all purposes, be treated as it were the original document, notwithstanding anything in any law to the contrary.

(6)

Without prejudice to the above provisions of this section, where any document filed with or in the custody of the Registrar is damaged or is in danger of becoming illegible, the Registrar may if he thinks fit, direct a copy to be made of it, verified and certified in such manner as he may determine, and that copy shall be substituted for, and shall for all purposes of this Act be deemed to be, the document which is damaged or in danger of becoming illegible.

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Part XVII

Application of Act to Existing Companies

Read on from Part XVII

Part XVIII

Overseas Companies

Read on from Part XVIII

Part XIX

Advisory Commission

Read on from Part XIX

Part XX

Companies Disputes Board

Read on from Part XX

Part XXI

Offences Miscellaneous Offences

Read on from Part XXI

Part XXII

Miscellaneous Prohibition of Partnership with More Than Twenty Members

Read on from Part XXII

Part XXIII

Repeals and Amendments

Read on from Part XXIII