Section 162
of International Business Companies Order, 2000
Section 162
(1)
Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (1) and (2) of section 4, on payment to the Registrar of the prescribed fee, any officer, member, debenture holder, director or liquidator of an IBC or foreign international company or the registered agent for the time being of the IBC or the foreign international company, or any other person with the written permission of such officer, member, debenture holder, director or liquidator or who can demonstrate to the Registrar that he has a good and cogent reason arising out of any written law for doing so (not being a reason inconsistent with the objectives of this Order) or who is acting pursuant to an order of the Court, may, subject to this Order and during normal business hours –
(a)
inspect the registers and other documents kept by the Registrar; and
(b)
make copies of or of extracts from those registers and documents.
(2)
On request to the Registrar and on payment to him of the prescribed fee, the
Registrar shall furnish any person of the class of persons or having the consent respectively mentioned in subsection (1) with a copy, certified by the Registrar, of the certificate of the incorporation of an IBC or of any other document or part thereof, but save as aforesaid no document filed by the Registrar in respect of a company shall be available for inspection or copying.
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(3)
(Repealed by S 37/2003).
(4)
Unless the contrary is proved, a document purporting to be certified under the hand of the Registrar as mentioned in subsection (2) shall be taken to be so certified.
(5)
If any register or other document kept by the Registrar is in a form which cannot be read by the human eye, the Registrar must provide a suitable means for an inspection under subsection (1) and must provide legible copies under subsection (2).
(6)
A copy of or extract from any document kept and registered by the Registrar under this Order, certified to be a true copy under the hand of the Registrar shall in all legal proceedings be admissible in evidence in like manner and to the like extent as the original.
Certificate of good standing.