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Proceedings
on report by
inspectors.

Ch. 31. No. 1.] Compantes.

the company to produce to the inspectors all books and
documents in their custody or power,

(+) An inspector may examine on oath the officers
and agents of the company in relation to its business, and
may administer an oath accordingly.

(5) Tf any officer or agent of the company refuses to
produce to the inspectors any book or document which it
is lus duty under this section so to produce, or refuses to
answer any question which is put to him by the inspectors
with respect to the affairs of the company, the inspectors
may certify the refusal under their hand to the Court, and
the Court may thereupon enquire into the case, and after
hearing any witnesses who may be produced against or on
behalf of the alleged offender and after hearing any state-
ment which may be offered in defence, punish the offender
in like manner as if he had been guilty of contempt of the
Court.

(6) On the conclusion of the investigation the
inspectors shall report their opinion to the Governor in
Council, and a copy of the report shall be forwarded by the
Governor in Council to the registered office of the company,
and a further copy shall, at the request of the applicants for
the investigation, be delivered to them.

The report shall be written or printed, as the Governor
in Council direct.

134. If from any report made under the last foregoing
section it appears to the Governor in Council that any person
has been guilty of any offence in relation to the company
for which he is criminally liable the matter may be referred
to the Attorney General and if he considers that the case is
one in which a prosecution ought to be instituted and,
further, that it is desirable in the public interest that the
proceedings in the prosecution should be conducted by him,
he shall institute proceedings accordingly, and it shall be
the duty of all officers and agents of the company, past and
present (other than the defendant in the proceedings), to

give to him all assistance in connection with the prosecution

which they are reasonably able to give.
lor the purposes of this section, the expression “‘ agents ”’
in relation to a company shall be deemed to include the