COMPANIES ACT, 1929 
617 
(5) A company may discontinue to keep a dominion register, 
and thereupon all entries in that register shall be transferred to 
some other dominion register kept by the company in the same part 
of His Majesty's dominions, or to the principal register. 
(6) Subject to the provisions of this Act, any company may, by 
its articles, make such provisions as it may think fit respecting the 
keeping of dominion registers. 
\7) If default is made in complying with subsection (3) of this 
section, the company and every officer of the company who is i» 
lefault shall be liable to a default fine. 
105. An instrument of transfer of a share registered in a dominion 
register, other than such a register kept in Northern Ireland, shall 
be deemed to be a transfer of property situate out of the United 
Kingdom, and, unless executed in any part of the United Kingdom, 
shall be exempt from stamp duty chargeable in Great Britain. 
106.—(1) The Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890, shall have effect 
as if the last three foregoing sections of this Act were included among 
the enactments which by virtue of section five of that Act may be 
applied by Order in Council to foreign countries in which for the time 
seing His Majesty has jurisdiction. 
(2) His Majesty may by Order in Council direct that the said 
sections, including any enactments for the time being in force amend- 
ing or substituted for those sections, shall extend, with or without 
any exceptions, adaptations or modifications specified in the Order, 
to any territories under His Majesty’s protection to which those 
sections cannot be extended under the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 
1890, as amended by subsection (1) of this section. 
His Majesty may by Order in Council revoke or vary any Order 
made under this subsection. 
107.—(1) If by virtue of the law in force in any part of His 
Majesty’s dominions outside Great Britain companies incorporated 
ander that law have power to keep in Great Britain branch registers 
of their members resident in Great Britain, His Majesty may by 
Order in Council direct that sections ninety-eight and one hundred 
of this Act shall, subject to any modifications and adaptations 
specified in the Order, apply to and in relation to any such branch 
registers kept in Great Britain as they apply to and in relation to the 
registers of companies within the meaning of this Act. 
{2) For the purposes of this section, the expression ‘‘His 
Majesty's dominions” includes any territory which is under His 
Majesty’s protection or in respect of which a mandate under the 
League of Nations has been accepted by His Majesty. 
Stamp duties in 
:ase of shares 
registered in 
lominion regis- 
ters. 
Power to extend 
provisions as to 
dominion regis- 
ters to other 
countries, 
53 & 54 Vict. 
3.17 
Provisions as to 
sranch registers 
»f dominion 
companies kept 
n the United 
Kingdom. 
Annual Return. 
108.—(1) Every company having a share capital shall once at Annual return 
least in every year make a return containing a list of all persons who, di do 
on the fourteenth dav after the first or only ordinary general meeting a share cabital.