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Part XVI · Registrar-General of Companies and Registration Appointment of Officers

480. Inspection, production and evidence of documents kept by Registrar

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

(1)

Any person may, on the payment of the prescribed fee, inspect—

(a)

any document which forms part of the register ; or

(b)

particulars of any registered document that have been entered on any device or facility of the kind referred to in subsection (2) of section 473.

(2)

Any person may on the payment of the prescribed fee, require the Registrar to provide and certify—

(a)

a certificate of incorporation of a company;

(b)

a copy of or extract from any other document which forms part of the Register;

(c)

particulars of any registered document that have been entered on any device or facility of the kind referred to in subsection (2) of section 473; or

(d)

a copy of or extract from any registered document, particulars of which have been entered on any device or facility of the kind referred to in subsection (2) of section 473.

(3)

Nothing contained in the provisions of subsection (1)

or (2) shall apply to—

(a)

any report of an inspector appointed under sections 172, 173 or 180, unless the Registrar directs otherwise ;

(b)

any financial statements delivered to the Registrar by a private company under subsection (2) of section 170 or under the Companies Act, No. 17 of 1982, unless the person applying to inspect the document or requiring a copy or extract of it, is a shareholder or creditor of that company ;

(c)

a report filed by a receiver or administrator of a company, unless the person applying to inspect the document or requiring a copy or extract of it, is a shareholder or creditor of that company.

(4)

No process for compelling the production of any document kept by the Registrar shall issue from any court, except with the leave of that court, and any such process shall state that it is issued with the leave of the court.

(5)

A copy of or extract from any document kept and registered at any of the offices for the registration of companies in Sri Lanka, certified to be a true copy or extract by the

Registrar, shall in all legal proceedings be admissible in evidence as of equal validity with the original document.

(6)

Any person untruthfully stating himself to be a shareholder or creditor of a company for the purposes of subsection (3), shall be guilty of an offence and be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred thousand rupees.

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