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

483. Production and inspection of books where an offence is suspected

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

(1)

Where on an application made to a Magistrate in chambers by the Attorney-General, the Registrar or any officer of police not below the rank of Assistant

Superintendent, there is shown to be reasonable cause to believe that any person has while an officer of a company, committed an offence in connection with the management of the company’s affairs, and evidence of the commission of the offence is to be found in any books or papers of or under the control of the company, an order may be made—

(a)

authorising any person named in it to inspect those books or papers or any of them, for the purpose of investigating and obtaining evidence of the offence ;

or

(b)

requiring the secretary of the company or such other officer of the company as may be named in the order, to produce those books or papers or any of them to a person named in the order at a place so named.

(2)

The provisions of subsection (1) shall apply in relation to any books or papers of a person carrying on the business of banking so far as they relate to the company’s affairs, as it applies to any books or papers of or under the control of the company, except that no order of the kind referred to in paragraph (b) of that subsection, shall be made by virtue of the provisions of this subsection.

(3)

No appeal shall lie from a decision of a Magistrate on an application made under this section.

Read on from s 484

Part XVII

Application of Act to Existing Companies

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Part XVIII

Overseas Companies

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Part XIX

Advisory Commission

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Part XX

Companies Disputes Board

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Part XXI

Offences Miscellaneous Offences

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Part XXII

Miscellaneous Prohibition of Partnership with More Than Twenty Members

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Part XXIII

Repeals and Amendments

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Schedules