COMPANIES ACT, 1928 
705 
295.—(1) Where the registrar of companies has reasonable cause 
to believe that a company is not carrying on business or in operation, 
he may send to the company by post a letter inquiring whether the 
company is carrying on business or in operation. 
(2) If the registrar does not within one month of sending the 
letter receive any answer thereto, he shall within fourteen days after 
the expiration of the month send to the company by post a registered 
letter referring to the first letter, and stating that no answer thereto 
has been received, and that if an answer is not received to the second 
letter within one month from the date thereof, a notice will be 
published in the Gazette with a view to striking the name of the 
company off the register. 
(3) If the registrar either receives an answer to the effect that 
the company is not carrying on business or in operation, or does not 
within one month after sending the second letter receive any 
answer, he may publish in the Gazette, and send to the company by 
post, a notice that at the expiration of three months from the date 
of that notice the name of the company mentioned therein will, unless 
cause is shown to the contrary, be struck off the register and the 
company will be dissolved. 
(4) If, in any case where a company is being wound up, the 
registrar has reasonable cause to believe either that no liquidator is 
acting, or that the affairs of the company are fully wound up, and 
the returns required to be made by the liquidator have not been made 
for a period of six consecutive months, the registrar shall publish in 
the Gazette and send to the company or the liquidator, if any, a like 
notice as is provided in the last preceding subsection. 
{5) At the expiration of the time mentioned in the notice the 
registrar may, unless cause to the contrary is previously shown by 
the company, strike its name off the register, and shall publish 
notice thereof in the Gazette, and on the publication in the Gazette 
of this notice the company shall be dissolved: 
Provided that— 
(a) the liability, if any, of every director, managing officer, 
and member of the company shall continue and may 
be enforced as if the companv had not been dissolved; 
and 
nothing in this subsection shall affect the power of the 
court to wind up a company the name of which has been 
struck off the register. 
(6) If a company or any member or creditor thereof feels 
aggrieved by the company having been struck off the register, the 
court on an application made by the company or member or creditor 
before the expiration of twenty years from the publication in the 
Gazette of the notice aforesaid may, if satisfied that the company 
was at the time of the striking off carrying on business or in operation, 
or otherwise that it is just that the company be restored to the 
register, order the name of the company to be restored to the 
register, and upon an office copy of the order being delivered to the 
b) 
Registrar may 
strike defunct 
company off 
register.