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PART V.
Registration Office.
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Constitution of registration office.
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174. The registration of companies under this Act, shall be conducted as follows; (that is to say,)
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(1.) The Board of Trade may from time to time appoint such registrars, assistant registrars, clerks, and servants as they may think necessary for the registration of companies under this Act, and remove them at pleasure:
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(2.) The Board of Trade may make such regulations as they think fit with respect to the duties to be performed by any such registrars, assistant registrars, clerks, and servants as aforesaid:
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(3.) The Board of Trade may from time to time determine the places at which offices for the registration of companies are to be established, so that there be at all times maintained in each of the three parts of the United Kingdom at least one such office, and that no company shall be registered except at an office within that part of the United Kingdom in which by the memorandum of association the registered office of the company is declared to be established; and the Board may require that the registrar's office of the court of the vice warden of the Stannaries shall be one of the offices for the registration of companies formed for working mines within the jurisdiction of the Court.
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(4.) The Board of Trade may from time to time direct a seal or seals to be prepared for the authentication of any documents required for or connected with the registration of companies:
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(5.) Every person may inspect the documents kept by the registrar of joint stock companies; and there shall be paid for such inspection such fees as may be appointed by the Board of Trade, not exceeding one shilling for each inspection; and any person may require a certificate of the incorporation of any company, or a copy or extract of any other document or any part of any other document, to be certified by the registrar; and there shall be paid for such certificate of incorporation, certified copy, or extract such fees as the Board of Trade may appoint, not exceeding five shillings for the certificate of incorporation, and not exceeding sixpence for each folio of such copy or extract, or in Scotland for each sheet of two hundred words:
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(6.) The existing registrar, assistant registrars, clerks, and other officers and servants in the office for the registration of joint stock companies shall, during the pleasure of the Board of Trade, hold the offices and receive the salaries hitherto held and received by them, but they shall in the execution of their duties conform to any regulations that may be issued by the Board of Trade:
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(7.) There shall be paid to any registrar, assistant registrar, clerk, or servant that may hereafter be employed in the registration of joint stock companies, such salary as the Board of Trade may, with the sanction of the Commissioners of the Treasury, direct:
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(8.) Whenever any act is herein directed to be done to or by the registrar of joint stock companies, such act shall, until the Board of Trade otherwise directs, be done in England to or by the existing registrar of joint stock companies, or in his absence to or by such person as the Board of Trade may for the time being authorize, in Scotland to or by the existing registrar of joint stock companies in Scotland, and in Ireland to or by the existing assistant registrar of joint stock companies for Ireland, or by such person as the Board of Trade may for the time being authorize in Scotland or Ireland in the absence of the registrar; but in the event of the Board of Trade altering the constitution of the existing registry office, such act shall be done to or by such officer or officers and at such place or places with reference to the local situation of the registered offices of the companies to be registered as the Board of Trade may appoint.
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