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Companies Regulations.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 16th day of April, 1934.

Present:

THE RIGHT HON. J. G. COATES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by section twelve of the Companies Act, 1933, and of all other powers enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulations for the due administration of the said Act, and doth hereby declare that this Order in Council shall come into force on the date of its publication in the Gazette.

REGULATIONS.

SHORT TITLE.

1. (1) These regulations may be cited as the Companies Regulations, 1934.
   (2) In these regulations the expression “the Act” means the Companies Act, 1933.

SHAPE, WRITING, ETC., OF DOCUMENTS TO BE REGISTERED.

2. (1) All documents prepared to be registered or to be delivered, sent, or forwarded to the Registrar shall be legibly and clearly written, typewritten, or printed on half-sheets of foolscap paper of medium weight and good quality, with a binding margin of one-fourth of the width of the paper at the least. Where there are more sheets than one, they shall be fastened together with a sufficient paper-fastener at the top left-hand corner.
   (2) Carbon duplicates or copies shall not be received by the Registrar.
   (3) Except by special leave of the Registrar, granted upon such conditions as he thinks fit, no document shall be received by the Registrar which does not comply with this regulation.

FORMS.

3. The forms set out in the Schedule hereto shall be used for the purposes of the Act, and the particulars contained therein are hereby prescribed as the particulars required under the Act.

MANNER IN WHICH A TRANSFEREE COMPANY MAY GIVE NOTICE TO A DISSENTING SHAREHOLDER OF THE TRANSFEROR COMPANY UNDER SECTION 161.

4. A notice to be given to a dissenting shareholder of a transferor company by the transferee company under section 161 of the Act shall be in form No. 9 in the Schedule hereto, and shall be given to the said dissenting shareholder either personally or by sending it by registered post to him at his address registered in the books of the transferor company, or (if he has no address within New Zealand so registered) to the address, if any, within New Zealand supplied by him to the transferor company for the giving of notice to him.

CERTIFIED COPY OF CHARTER, ETC., UNDER SECTION 332.

5. (1) In the case of a company incorporated outside New Zealand in any part of His Majesty’s dominions or in any place under His Majesty’s protection or where His Majesty has jurisdiction, and not incorporated under the laws of a foreign country, a certified copy of the charter, statutes, or memorandum and articles of the company, or other instrument constituting or defining the constitution of the company, required to be delivered to the Registrar under section 332 of the Act, shall be deemed to be certified as a true copy if in such part of His Majesty’s dominions or in such place it is—
   (a) Duly certified as a true copy by an official of the Government to whose custody the original is committed; or
   (b) Duly certified as a true copy by a Notary Public in such part of His Majesty’s dominions or in such place; or
   (c) Duly certified as a true copy on oath by some officer of the company before some person having authority to administer an oath in such part of His Majesty’s dominions or in such place.
   (2) In the case of a company incorporated outside New Zealand under the laws of a foreign country, a certified copy of the charter, statutes, or memorandum and articles of the company, or other instrument constituting or defining the constitution of the company, required to be delivered to the Registrar under section 332 of the Act, shall be deemed to be certified as a true copy if in such foreign country it is—
   (a) Duly certified as a true copy by an official of the Government to whose custody the original is committed, the signature or seal of such official being authenticated by any British Ambassador, Envoy, Minister, chargé d’affaires, Secretary of Embassy or Legation, Consul-General, Consul, Vice-Consul, Acting-Consul,