Section 462

Registration offices.—(1) For the purposes of the registration of companies and other work under this Act, there shall be offices at such places as the Commission thinks fit.

(2) The Commission may appoint such registrars as it thinks necessary for the registration of companies and performing other duties under this Act, and may make regulations with respect to their duties.

(3) While performing their functions and duties under this Act, all registrars shall observe and follow the order and instructions of the Commission.

(4) The Commission may direct a seal or seals to be prepared for the authentication of documents required for or connected with the registration of companies.

(5) Any person may, in the manner as may be specified, inspect the documents kept by the registrar and may require a certified copy of certificate of incorporation or any other certificate of any company, or a copy or extract of any other document or register maintained by the registrar or any part thereof on payment of the fees specified in the Seventh Schedule.

(6) A copy of or an extract from any document filed or lodged, whether in electronic or physical form, with the Commission or the registrar under this Act or the rules or regulations made thereunder or supplied or issued by the Commission or the registrar and certified to be a true copy thereof or extract therefrom under the hand and seal of an officer of the Commission or the registrar, shall be admissible in evidence in any proceedings as of equal validity as the original document.

(7) Where a document is filed or lodged, whether in electronic or physical form, with the Commission or the registrar, the Commission or the registrar shall not be liable for any loss or damage suffered by any person by reason of any error or omission of whatever nature arising or appearing in any document obtained by any person under the e-service or in physical form under this Act or the rules or regulations made thereunder, if such error or omission was made in good faith and in the ordinary course of the discharge of the duties of the Commission or the registrar or occurred or arose as a result of any defect or breakdown in the service or in the equipment used for the provision of the eservice.

(8) Wherever any act is by this Act directed to be done to or by the registrar it shall, until the Commission otherwise directs, be done to or by the existing Registrar of Companies or in his absence to or by such person as the Commission may for the time being authorise; but, in the event of the Commission altering the constitution of the existing registration offices or any of them, any such act shall be done to or by such officer and at such place with reference to the local situation of the registered offices of the companies to be registered as the Commission may appoint.

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