Chapter: 32  COMPANIES ORDINANCE

Section Num: 306  Version Date 30/06/1997

Enforcement of duties under Ordinance by court order

(1) If a company or any officer of a company, having made default in complying with any requirement of this Ordinance, fails to make good the default within 14 days after the service of a notice on the company or officer requiring the company or officer to comply with that requirement, the court may, on an application made to it by any member or creditor of the company or by the Registrar, make an order-

(a) where the default was that of the company, directing the company and any officer thereof;

(b) where the default was that of an officer, directing that officer,

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-

(a) where the default was that of a company, by the company or by any officer of the company responsible for the default;

(b) where the default was that of an officer, by that officer.

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

(Replaced 6 of 1984 s. 219)

[cf. 1948 c. 38 s. 428 U.K.]