SECRETARIAL PRACTICE 
Register to be 102. The register of members shall be prima facie evidence of any 
svidence. matters by this Act directed or authorised to be inserted therein. 
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Dominion Register. 
103.—(1) A company having a share capital whose objects com- 
prise the transaction of business in any part of His Majesty’s 
dominions outside Great Britain, the Channel Islands, or the Isle 
of Man may cause to be kept in any such part of His Majesty's 
dominions in which it transacts business a branch register of members 
resident in that part (in this Act called a * dominion register”). 
(2) The company shall give to the registrar of companies notice 
of the situation of the office where any dominion register is kept and 
of any change in its situation, and if it is discontinued of its discon- 
tinuance, and any such notice shall be given within fourteen days 
of the opening of the office or of the change or discontinuance, as the 
case may be. 
(3) If default is made in complying with subsection (2) of this 
section, the company and every officer of the company who is in 
default shall be liable to a default fine. 
(4) References to a colonial register occurring in any articles 
registered before the commencement of this Act shall be construed 
as references to a dominion register. 
104.—(1) A dominion register shall be deemed to be part of the 
company’s register of members (in this and the next following section 
called “the principal register”). 
(2) It shall be kept in the same manner in which the principal 
register is by this Act required to be kept except that the advertise- 
ment before closing the register shall be inserted in some newspaper 
circulating in the district where the dominion register is kept, and 
that any competent court in that part of His Majesty’s dominions 
where the register is kept may exercise the same jurisdiction of 
rectifying the register as is under this Act exerciseable by the court, 
and that the offences of refusing inspection or copies of a dominion 
register, and of authorising or permitting the refusal may be prose- 
cuted summarily before any tribunal having summary criminal 
jurisdiction in that part of His Majesty’s dominions. 
(3) The company shall transmit to its registered office a copy 
of every entry in its dominion register as soon as may be after the 
entry is made, and shall cause to be kept at its registered office, duly 
entered up from time to time, a duplicate of its dominion register. 
Every such duplicate shall, for all the purposes of this Act, be 
deemed to be part of the principal register. 
(4) Subject to the provisions of this section with respect to the 
duplicate register, the shares registered in a dominion register shall 
be distinguished from the shares registered in the principal register, 
and no transaction with respect to any shares registered in a dominion 
register shall, during the continuance of that registration, be regis- 
tered in any other register.