On 24/05/2013,
you requested for the version in force on 24/05/2013
incorporating all amendments published on or before 24/05/2013.
The closest version currently available is that of 18/04/2013.
260.
—(1) No allotment shall be made of any securities of a company unless —
(a)
the minimum subscription has been subscribed; and
(b)
the sum payable on application for the securities so subscribed has been received by the company,
but if a cheque for the sum payable has been received by the company, the sum shall be deemed not to have been received by the company until the cheque is paid by the bank on which it is drawn.
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(2) The minimum subscription shall —
(a)
be calculated based on the price at which each share or debenture, or each unit of share or debenture, is or will be offered; and
(b)
be reckoned exclusively of any amount payable otherwise than in cash.
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(3) The amount payable on application on each share or debenture, or each unit of share or debenture, offered shall not be less than 5% of the price at which the share or debenture, or unit of share or debenture, is or will be offered.
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(4) If the conditions referred to in subsection (1)(a) and (b) have not been satisfied on the expiration of 4 months after the first issue of the prospectus, all moneys received from applicants for securities shall be immediately repaid to them without interest.
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(5) If any money referred to in subsection (4) is not repaid within 5 months after the issue of the prospectus, the directors of the company shall be jointly and severally liable to repay that money with interest at the rate of 10% per annum from the expiration of the period of 5 months; but a director shall not be so liable if he proves that the default in the repayment of the money was not due to any misconduct or negligence on his part.
(6) An allotment made by a company to an applicant in contravention of this section shall be voidable at the option of the applicant which option may be exercised by written notice served on the company —
(a)
within one month after the holding of the statutory meeting of the company and not later; or
(b)
in any case where the company is not required to hold a statutory meeting, or where the allotment is made after the holding of the statutory meeting, within one month after the date of the allotment and not later,
and the allotment shall be so voidable notwithstanding that the company is in the course of being wound up.
(7) Every director of a company who knowingly contravenes or permits or authorises the contravention of any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable in addition to the penalty or punishment for the offence to compensate the company and the allottee respectively for any loss, damages or costs which the company or the allottee has sustained or incurred thereby.
(8) No proceedings for the recovery of any compensation under subsection (7) shall be commenced after the expiration of 2 years from the date of the allotment.
(9) Any condition requiring or binding any applicant for securities to waive compliance with any requirement of this section shall be void.
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[Companies, s. 57]