Return as to allotments

(1) Whenever a company limited by shares makes any allotment of its shares, the company shall, within one month thereafter, file with the Registrar79 (a) a return of the allotments, stating the number and nominal amount of the shares comprised in the allotment, the names, addresses and descriptions of the allottees, and the amount, if any, paid or due and payable on each share; and (b) in the case of shares allotted as fully or partly paid- up otherwise than in cash, a contract in writing constituting the title of the allottee to the allotment, together with any contract of sale, or for services or other consideration in respect of which that allotment was made, such contracts being duly stamped, and a return stating the number and nominal amount of shares so allotted, the extent to which they are to be treated as paid-up, and the consideration for which they have been allotted. (2) Where such a contract as above mentioned is not reduced to writing, the company shall within one month after the allotment file with the Registrar the prescribed particulars of the contract stamped with the same stamp duty as would have been payable if the contract had been reduced to writing, and those particulars shall be deemed to be an instrument within the meaning of the Stamp Duties Act and the Registrar may, as a condition of filing the particulars, require that the duty payable thereon be assessed under that Act. CAP. 64. (3) If default is made in complying with this section, every director, manager, secretary or other officer of the company who is knowingly a party to the default, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars for every day during which the default continues, provided that, in case of default in filing with the Registrar within one month after the allotment any document required to be filed by this section, the company, or any person liable for 80 the default may apply to the court for relief, and the court, if satisfied that the omission to file the document was accidental or due to inadvertence or that it is just and equitable to grant relief, may make an order extending the time for the filing of the document for such period as the court may think proper. Division 4 Payment of Commissions, Discounts, Interests, Debentures and Floating Charges, etc.