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 XXIX: Penalties on non-publication of name.
    If any limited Company registered under this Act does not paint or affix, and keep painted or affixed, its name in mariner aforesaid, it shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Fifty Rupees for not so painting or affixing its name and for every day during which such name is not so - kept painted or affixed; and if any Officer of such Company, or any person on its behalf, uses any seal purporting to be a seal of the Company whereon its name is not so engraven as aforesaid, or issues or authorizes the issue of any notice-advertisement, or other Official publication of such Company, or signs or authorises to be signed on behalf of such Company any Bill of Exchange, Hoondee, Promissory Note, Endorsement, Cheque, or order for money or goods, or issues or authorizes to be issued any Bill of parcels, invoice, receipt, or letter of credit of the Company, wherein its name is not mentioned in manner aforesaid, he shall be liable to a penalty of Five hundred Rupees, and shall further be personally liable to the holder of any such Bill of Exchange; Hoondee, Promissory Note, Cheque, or order for money or goods, for :.the amount thereof, unless the same is duly paid by the Company.
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