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.