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Validity of
acts of
directors.

Register of
directors.

Ch. 31. No. 1.] Compantes.

taking part or being concerned in the management of, that
company and has continuously so acted, taken part, or been
concerned since that date and the bankruptcy was prior to
that date.

(2) Leave of the Court for the purposes of this sec-
tion shall not be given unless notice of intention to apply
therefor has been served on the Official Receiver and it shall
be the duty of the Official Receiver, if he is of opinion that
it is contrary to the public interest that any such application
should be granted, to attend on the hearing of and oppose
the granting of the application.

(3) In this section the expression ‘ company ”’
includes an unregistered company and a company incor-
porated outside the Colony which has an established place
of business within the Colony, and the expression “‘ Official
Receiver "’ means the Official Receiver in bankruptcy.

141. The acts of a director or manager shall be valid
notwithstanding any defect that may afterwards be dis-
covered in his appointment or qualification.

142. (1) Every company shall keep at its registered
office a register of its directors or managers containing with
respect to each of them the following particulars, that is to
say—

(a) in the case of an individual, his present christian
name and surname, any former christian name or
surname, his usual residential address, his nationality,
and, if that nationality is not the nationality of origin,
his nationality of origin, and his business occupation,
if any, or, if he has no business occupation but holds
any other directorship or directorships, particulars of
that directorship or of some one of those directorships;
and

(b) in the case of a corporation, its corporate name
and registered or principal office.

(2) The company shall, within the periods res-
pectively mentioned in this subsection, send to the Registrar,
a return in the prescribed form containing the particulars
specified in the said register and a notification in the
prescribed form of any change among its directors or in any
of the particulars contained in the register.