Registrar, offences and enforcement
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93. Registrar, register and public information
The Registrar maintains the company register, public information and Gazette, while the company remains responsible for the accuracy and completeness of its own submissions.
Subject: Registrar, offences and enforcement
Act references: s. 218; s. 219; s. 220; s. 221; s. 222; s. 223; s. 224; s. 225; s. 231; s. 232; s. 234
Key point: Section 231 specifies the broad categories held in the Register of Companies.
94. Documents, compliance statements and electronic filing
Electronic submission and a signed compliance statement support registration, but the legal practitioner must verify the underlying corporate act and current prescribed form.
Subject: Registrar, offences and enforcement
Act references: s. 226; s. 227; s. 228; s. 229
Key point: Regulations may permit notarised or attested copies instead of originals.
95. Registrar inspection and commercial confidentiality
The Registrar may inspect on evidence-based reasonable grounds of contravention, while designated commercial secrets receive limited statutory confidentiality.
Subject: Registrar, offences and enforcement
Act references: s. 230; s. 232; s. 233
Key point: Inspection can extend to registered/service addresses, office or place of business and information gathering.
96. Company, director and Managing Director offences
Chapter Fifteen maps specified compliance failures to the company, directors and Managing Director; responsibility is not confined to the person who operated the portal.
Subject: Registrar, offences and enforcement
Act references: s. 235; s. 236; s. 237
Key point: Section 235 lists company offences and, in the English translation, states a MVR 1,000 company fine for those offences.
97. Third-party, criminal and other offences
Beneficial owners, liquidators and any person submitting false/forged material or obstructing inspection can face personal consequences beyond ordinary company fines.
Subject: Registrar, offences and enforcement
Act references: s. 238; s. 239; s. 240
Key point: Section 238 applies tiered fines to specified beneficial-owner information failures and a liquidator's seven-day notification failure.
98. Responding to a Registrar notice or default
A sound response cures the live record, preserves evidence, distinguishes each alleged breach and prevents a notice from becoming inactivity, larger fines or criminal exposure.
Subject: Registrar, offences and enforcement
Act references: s. 50; s. 72; s. 125; s. 126; s. 145; s. 154; s. 168; s. 174; s. 178; s. 186; s. 187; s. 208; s. 230; s. 235; s. 236; s. 237; s. 238; s. 239; s. 240
Key point: A Registrar rectification period can differ from the original statutory filing period.
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