Registration office

(1) There is established a Companies and Corporate Affairs Registry, which shall be a public office, as the registration office of companies. 153 (1a) For the purposes of the registration of companies under this Act, the Solicitor General is the Registrar of Companies and Corporate Affairs. (2) The Minister may direct a seal or seals to be prepared for the authentication of documents required for or connected with the registration of companies. (3) Any person may inspect the documents kept by the Registrar on payment of such fees as may be appointed by the Minister not exceeding twenty-five cents for each inspection, and any person may require a certificate of the incorporation of any company, or a copy or extract of any other document or any part of any other document, to be certified by the Registrar, on payment for the certificate, certified copy or extract, of such fees as the Minister may appoint, not exceeding one dollar for a certificate of incorporation, and not exceeding twelve cents for each folio of a certified copy or extract. (4) A copy of or extract from any document kept and registered at the office for the registration of companies, certified to be a true copy under the hand of the Registrar, shall in all legal proceedings be admissible in evidence as of equal validity with the original document. Schedule I.