Assurance Companies. [Ch. 31. No. 19.

Registrar General that the circumstances are such that a
longer period than six months should be allowed, the Regis-
trar General may extend that period by such period not
exceeding three months as he thinks fit.

(2) The Registrar General shall consider the accounts,
balance sheets, abstracts, and statements so deposited, and,
if any such account, balance sheet, abstract, or statement
appears to the Registrar General to be inaccurate or
incomplete in any respect, the Registrar General shall
communicate with the company with a view to the
correction of any such inaccuracies and the supply of
deficiencies.

(3) There shall be deposited with every revenue
account and balance sheet of a company any report on the
affairs of the company submitted to the shareholders or
policy holders of the company in respect of the financial
year to which the account and balance sheet relate.

(4) Where an assurance company registered under the
Companies Ordinance in any year deposits its accounts
and balance sheet in accordance with the provisions of
this section, it shall not be necessary for the company to
send to the Registrar General the documents contemplated
by subsection (3) of section 108 of the said Ordinance.

(5) Section 129 of the Companies Ordinance shall
not apply to an assurance company to which the provisions
of this Ordinance as to the accounts and balance sheet to
be prepared annually and deposited by such a company
apply, if the company complies with those provisions.

10. A printed or typewritten copy of the last deposited
accounts, balance sheet, abstract, or statement, shall on
the application of any shareholder or policy holder of the
company be forwarded to him by the company by post or
otherwise.

11. Where the accounts of an assurance company are
not subject to audit in accordance with the provisions of
the Companies Ordinance, relating to audit, the accounts
of the company shall be audited annually in such manner
as the Registrar General may direct, and the directions
given for the purpose may apply to any such company the

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Right of
share-
holders, etc.,
to copies of
accounts,
etc.

Audit of
accounts.