Companies Act · 2021 Revised Edition · Part 7
291. Enforcement of duty of company to make returns to Registrar
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
If a company, having made default in complying with any provision of this Act which requires it to file with, deliver or send to the
Registrar any return, account or other document, or to give notice to him of any matter, fails to make good the default within 14 days after the service of a notice on the company requiring it to do so, the Court may, on an application made to the Court by any member or creditor of the company or by the Registrar, make an order directing the company and any officer thereof to make good the default within such time as may be specified in the order.
Registrar
"Registrar" means the Registrar of Companies appointed under section 288, and includes any Deputy Registrar or Assistant Registrar;
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Any such order may provide that all costs of and incidental to the application shall be borne by the company or by any officers of the company responsible for the default.
Nothing in this section shall be taken to prejudice the operation of any enactment imposing penalties on a company or its officers in respect of any such default as aforesaid.
Terms defined in s 2
document
Defined · s 2"document" includes summons, notice, order, and other legal process, and registers;
officer
Defined · s 2"officer", in relation to a corporation, includes - (a) any director or secretary of the corporation or a person employed in an executive capacity by the corporation; @) a receiver and manager of any part of the undertaking of the corporation appointed under a power contained in any instrument; and (c) any liquidator of a company appointed in a voluntary winding up, but does not include - (i) any receiver who is not also a manager; (ii) any receiver and manager appointed by the Court; (iii) any liquidator appointed by the Court or by the creditors; and (iv) an Executive Manager appointed by the Minister under section 230(1) of the Insolvency Order, 2016 (S 112016);
Registrar
Defined · s 2"Registrar" means the Registrar of Companies appointed under section 288, and includes any Deputy Registrar or Assistant Registrar;
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