Section XXII
Power to close Register.
The Joint-stock Companies Act, 1857
About this Act
An Act to make better provision for the order and good government of the Suburbs of Calcutta and of the station of Howrah.
The Company may, upon giving notice by advertisement in
some newspapers circulating in that part of the said territories in which the registered Office of the
Company is situate, close the Register of shareholders for any time or times not exceeding on the
whole twenty-one days in each year: and the period, during which the books are closed, shall not be
reckoned as part of the time within which a transfer is to be registered.