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COLONIAL STOCK ACT 1877 - SECT 18

Information to be given respecting register.

18. The registrar shall keep in a separate book a list of the stockholders on
whose stock the dividends have been unclaimed for ten years, together with
their registered addresses and description, and such list shall be open for
inspection at the usual hours of transfer upon payment of such fee, not
exceeding [12p], as may be fixed by the regulations.

The registrar shall give within a reasonable time after application a
certificate stating the following particulars in relation to any
colonial stock, of which he is registrar, or any part of such stock or such of
those particulars as may be required by the applicant, namely

(a)The total amount issued by the colony, and the total inscribed in the
register; and

(b)The total number of the persons in whose names the stock or part is
originally inscribed, or after the register of such stock or part has been
once closed as regards transfers, the total number of the stockholders at the
last preceding date at which the transfer books were closed; and

(c)The total number of each class of persons in whose names the stock or part
is originally inscribed, or after the register of the stock or part has been
once closed as regards transfers of each class of stockholders at the last
preceding date at which the transfer books were closed, the classification
being according to the amount held, omitting fractions of two hundred pounds;
and

(d)A copy or extract certified by the registrar or by some officer appointed
for the purpose to be a true copy or extract of any conditions or regulations
required by this Act to be entered in the register.

Provided, that the registrar shall not be required to give any such
certificate in relation to any colonial stock, or part of such stock, until
after the expiration of one month after the stock or part of the stock to
which the certificate relates has been inscribed.

Within a reasonable time after the application of any person who is a
stockholder of any colonial stock to which this Act applies, the registrar
shall give him a list of the registered names and addresses of the
stockholders of such stock at the last preceding date at which the register
was closed as regards transfers.

The registrar before giving a certificate or list under this section may
require payment of such fee not exceeding [25p] and a further sum of twopence
for every folio of seventy-two words, or in the case of a list of names and
addresses of [2p] for each name and address, as the registrar may from time to
time fix.

Any certificate or list given under this section shall be admissible in
evidence.

Particulars to be contained in prospectus, certificates, &c.



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