OTHER MATTERS RELATING TO SHARES 101
A company authorised to transact business in any part
of His Majesty’s dominions outside Great Britain, the Channel
Islands or the Isle of Man, may keep in any such part of His
Majesty’s dominions where it transacts business a branch
register of members resident in that part. This register is
called a ‘dominion register’ and references to a colonial register
occurring in any articles registered before the 1st November,
1929, are to be construed as references to a dominion register.
The Registrar must be notified of the situation of the office
where any dominion register is kept, and of any change in its
situation, and of its discontinuance [s. 103]. A duplicate of
a dominion register must be kept, duly entered up, at the
company’s registered office, which duplicate is deemed to be
part of the principal register, and in the event of default in
this obligation or in transmitting to the registered office copies
of entries in the dominion register the company and its
officers are liable to penalties [s. 104]. For further details
as to dominion registers, reference may be made to ss. 103-107
of the Act. Under s. 106, sections 103-105 may be applied
by order in Council to foreign countries in which His Majesty
the King has jurisdiction, and by s. 107 if a dominion register
is lawfully kept in any part of His Majesty’s dominions outside
Great Britain (including protectorates and mandated terri-
tories), s. 98 (as to inspection), and s. 100 (as to rectification
of the register), may by order in Council be applied to such
dominion register.

In connection with the register of members, the annual list
and return, or, as it is commonly called, the Annual Return
(in the 1908 Act called ‘Annual List and Summary’), may
conveniently be dealt with. Ss. 108-111 contain the statutory
law on the subject, and the statutory form of the document
applicable to a company having a share capital is contained
in the sixth schedule to the Act.

The Annual Return must be contained in a separate part
of the register of members (which itself may be kept in one
or more books), (s. 110). It must be made at least once in
every year and must contain a list of all persons who, on the
fourteenth day after the first or only ordinary general meeting
in the year, are members of the company, and of all persons
who have ceased to be members since the date of the last
return, or (in the case of the first return), since the date of
the company’s incorporation [s. 108 ‘z\

The list must state.

(1) the names, addresses, and occupations of all the past

and present members referred to above:

Dominion
Register.

Annual
Return.