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to the business or trade of that person, firm or company, to 
give that information. 
For the purposes of this subsection, any person authorised 
in that behalf by the Board of Trade may inspect the register 
of members of a company at any time, and any shares in a 
company for which share warrants to bearer have been issued 
shall not be reckoned as part of the issued share capital of the 
company. 
(3) If any person having the custody of any book or docu 
ment which a person is authorised to inspect under this section 
refuses or wilfully neglects to produce it for inspection, or if 
any person who is able to give any information which may be 
required to be given under this section refuses or wilfully 
neglects when required to give that information, that person 
shall on conviction under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts 
be liable to imprisonment with or without hard labour for a 
term not exceeding six months, or to a tine not exceeding fifty 
pounds, or to both such imprisonment and fine. 
Power of Board of Trade to Apply for Receiver in 
Certain Cases. 
3. Where it appears to the Board of Trade in reference to 
any firm or company— 
(a) that an offence under this Act has been or is likely to 
I be committed in connexion with the trade or business 
thereof; or 
'i (b) that the control or management thereof has been or 
is likely to be so affected by the state of war as to 
| prejudice the effective continuance of its trade or 
business and that it is in the public interest that the 
trade or business should continue to be carried on ; 
r the Board of Trade may apply to the High Court for the 
appointment of a controller of the firm or company, and the 
High Court shall have power to appoint such a controller, for 
1 Such time and subject to such conditions and with such powers 
as the court thinks fit, and the powers so conferred shall be 
either those of a receiver and manager or those powers subject 
to such modifications, restrictions or extensions as the court 
thinks fit (including, if the court considers it necessary or 
expedient for enabling the controller to borrow money, power, 
after a special application to the court for that purpose, to 
create charges on the property of the firm or company w 
priority to existing charges).