COMPANIES ACT, 1029

712

314.—(1) Any person may inspect the documents kept by the
registrar of companies on payment of such fees as may be appointed
by the Board of Trade, not exceeding one shilling for each inspection,
and any person may require a certificate of the incorporation of
any company, or a copy or extract of any other document or any
part of any other document, to be certified by the registrar, on
payment for the certificate, certified copy or extract, of such fees
as the Board of Trade may appoint, not exceeding five shillings for
a certificate of incorporation and not exceeding sixpence for each
folio of a certified copy or extract:

Provided that, where a company has been dissolved under this
Act, the registrar may, at any time after the expiration of two
years from the date of the dissolution, direct that any documents
in his custody relating to that company may be removed to the
Public Record Office, and documents in respect of which any such
direction is given shall be disposed of in accordance with the pro-
visions of the Public Record Office Acts, 1838 to 1898, and the
rules made thereunder.

{nspection, pro-
juction and
:vidence of
documents kept
by registrar.

(2) No process for compelling the production of any document
kept by the registrar shall issue from any court except with the
leave of that court, and any such process if issued shall bear thereon
a statement that it is issued with the leave of the court.
(3) A copy of or extract from any document kept and registered
at any of the offices for the registration of companies in England
or Scotland, certified to be a true copy under the hand of the registrar
(whose official position it shall not be necessary to prove), shall in
all legal proceedings be admissible in evidence as of equal validity
with the original document.
(4) In the application of this section to Scotland, as in its
application to England, a folio shall be deemed to consist of seventy
two words.

315.—(1) If a company, having made default in complying Enforcement of
with any provision of this Act which requires it to file with, deliver duty i Company
or send to the registrar of companies any return, account or other to registrar.
document, or to give notice to him of any matter, fails to make
good the default within fourteen days after the service of a notice
on the company requiring it to do so, the court may, on an appli-
cation made to the court by any member or creditor of the company
or by the registrar of companies, make an order directing the com-
pany and any officer thereof to make good the default within such
time as may be specified in the order.
(2) Any such order may provide that all costs of and incidental
to the application shall be borne by the company or by any officers
of the company responsible for the default.

(3) Nothing in this section shall be taken to prejudice the
operation of any enactment imposing penalties on a company or its
officers in respect of anv such default as aforesaid.