540

- SECRETARIAL PRACTICE
(2) The company shall, within the periods respectively men-
tioned in this subsection, send to the registrar of companies a
return in the prescribed form containing the particulars specified
in the said register and a notification in the prescribed form of any
change among its directors or in any of the particulars contained in
the register.

The period within which the said return is to be sent shall
be a period of fourteen days from the appointment of the first
directors of the company, and the period within which the said
notification of a change is to be sent shall be fourteen days from the
happening thereof.
{3) The register to be kept under this section shall during
business hours (subject to such reasonable restrictions as the company
may by its articles or in general meeting impose, so that not less
than two hours in each day be allowed for inspection) be open to
the inspection of any member of the company without charge and
of any other person on payment of one shilling, or such less sum as
the company may prescribe, for each inspection.

4) If any inspection required under this section is refused
or if default is made in complying with subsection (1) or subsection (2)
of this section, the company and every officer of the company who
is in default shall be liable to a default fine.

(5) In the case of any such refusal, the court may by order
compel an immediate inspection of the register.

(6) For the purposes of this section, a person in accordance
with whose directions or instructions the directors of a company
are accustomed to act shall be deemed to be a director and officer
of the company.

Particulars with  145.—(1) Every company to which this section applies shall,

tespect wo die in all trade catalogues, trade circulars, showcards and business

catalogues, letters on or in which the company’s name appears and which are

circulars, &. issued or sent by the company to any person in any part of His
Majesty's dominions, state in legible characters with respect to
every director being a corporation, the corporate name, and with
respect to every director being an individual, the following parti-
culars—

(a) his present christian name, or the initials thereof, and

present surname;

(b) any former christian names and surnames;

(¢) his nationality, if not British;

(4d) his nationality of origin, if his nationality is not the nation-

ality of origin:

Provided that, if special circumstances exist which render it in
the opinion of the Board of Trade expedient that such an exemption
should be granted, the Board may by order grant, subject to such
conditions as may be specified in the order, exemption from the
obligations imposed by this subsection.