Companies Act · s 50

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50.
Power to issue shares at discount
(1) Subject as provided in this section, it shall be lawful for a company to issue, at a discount, shares in the company of a class already issued:
Provided that -
(a) the issue of the shares at a discount must be authorised by resolution passed in general meeting of the company, and must be sanctioned by the Court;
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the resolution must specify the maximum rate of discount at which the shares are to be issued;
(c)
at the date of the issue, not less than one year must have elapsed since the date on which the company was entitled to commence business; and
(d) the shares to be issued at a discount must be issued within one month after the date on which the issue is sanctioned by the Court or within such extended time as the Court may allow.
(2) Where a company has passed a resolution authorising the issue of shares at a discount, it may apply to the Court for an order sanctioning the issue and on any such application the Court, if having regard to all the circumstances of the case, it thinks proper to do so, may make an order sanctioning the issue on such terms and conditions as it thinks fit.
(3) Every prospectus relating to the issue of the shares and every balance sheet issued by the company subsequently to the issue of the shares must contain particulars of the discount allowed on the issue of the shares or of so much of that discount as has not been written off at the date of the issue of the document in question. If default is made in complying with this subsection, the company and every officer of the company who is in default is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a default fine.

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s 50Power to issue shares at discount

(1)

Subject as provided in this section, it shall be lawful for a company to issue, at a discount, shares in the company of a class already issued:

Provided that -

(a)

the issue of the shares at a discount must be authorised by resolution passed in general meeting of the company, and must be sanctioned by the Court;

the resolution must specify the maximum rate of discount at which the shares are to be issued;

(c)

at the date of the issue, not less than one year must have elapsed since the date on which the company was entitled to commence business; and

(d)

the shares to be issued at a discount must be issued within one month after the date on which the issue is sanctioned by the Court or within such extended time as the Court may allow.

(2)

Where a company has passed a resolution authorising the issue of shares at a discount, it may apply to the Court for an order sanctioning the issue and on any such application the Court, if having regard to all the circumstances of the case, it thinks proper to do so, may make an order sanctioning the issue on such terms and conditions as it thinks fit.

(3)

Every prospectus relating to the issue of the shares and every balance sheet issued by the company subsequently to the issue of the shares must contain particulars of the discount allowed on the issue of the shares or of so much of that discount as has not been written off at the date of the issue of the document in question. If default is made in complying with this subsection, the company and every officer of the company who is in default is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a default fine.

Companies

CAP. 39 67

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS AS TO SHARE CAPITAL