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.

Power for com-
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dominion
register,

Regulations «&.
to dominion
register.

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.