Act Number: 19

Act Name: The Joint-stock Companies Act, 1857

Year: 1857

Enactment Date: 1857-07-10

Long Title: An Act to make better provision for the order and good government of the Suburbs of Calcutta and of the station of Howrah.

Ministry: Ministry of Corporate Affairs

Department:

Section XXI: Inspection of Register and annual of share holders.
    The Register and annual list of shareholders commencing from and the incorporation of the Company, shall be kept at the registered Office of the Company hereinafter mentioned ; except when the Register is closed as hereinafter mentioned such Register arid annual list shall during business hours, but subject to such reasonable restrictions as the Company in general meeting may impose, so that not less than two hours in each day be appointed for inspection, be opened to the inspection of any shareholder gratis, and to the inspection of any other person on the payment of one Rupee, or such less sum as the Company may prescribe for each inspection; and every such. shareholder or other person may require a copy of such Register and annual list, or of any part thereof, on payment of two annas for every one hundred words required to be copied; if such inspection or copy is refused, the Company shall incur for each refusal a penalty not exceeding Fifty Rupees, and a further penalty not exceeding Twenty Rupees for every day during which such refusal continues.
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