Company Law Enforcement Act, 2001

Amendment of section 195 of Act of 1963.

91.—Section 195 of the Act of 1963 is amended—

(a) by the insertion of the following after subsection (7):

“(8) Without prejudice to subsection (7), if the notification to be sent to the registrar of companies pursuant to subsection (6) is a notification of the appointment of a person as a director of a company and that person is a person who is disqualified under the law of another state (whether pursuant to an order of a judge or a tribunal or otherwise) from being appointed or acting as a director or secretary of a body corporate or an undertaking, that person shall ensure that the notification is accompanied by (but as a separate document from the notification) a statement in the prescribed form signed by him specifying—

(a) the jurisdiction in which he is so disqualified,

(b) the date on which he became so disqualified, and

(c) the period for which he is so disqualified.”,

and

(b) by the insertion of the following after subsection (10):

“(10A) Any member of a company or other person may require the company to supply to him a copy of the register required to be kept under this section, or any part of the register, on payment of 15p, or such less sum as the company may prescribe, for every hundred words or fractional part thereof required to be copied. The company shall cause a copy so required by a person to be sent to the person within 10 days of the receipt by the company of the request, and if it fails to do so it shall be guilty of an offence.”.