Ninth Schedule, The Companies Act, 2009

PART 1– MATTERS REQUIRED TO BE STATED IN A PROSPECTUS 1. Except where the prospectus is published as a newspaper advertisement, the contents of the memorandum, with the names, descriptions and addresses of the signatories, and the number of shares subscribed for by them respectively. 2. The number of founders or management or deferred shares, if any, and the nature and extent of the interest of the holders in the property and profits of 3. The number of shares, if any, fixed by the articles as the qualification of a director, and any provision in the articles as to the remuneration of the directors. 4. The names, descriptions and addresses of the directors or proposed directors and of the managers or proposed managers (if any). 5. Where shares are offered to the public for subscription, particulars as to- 474 475 (a) the minimum amount which, in the opinion of the directors, must be raised by the issue of those shares in order to provide the sums or, if any part thereof is to be defrayed in any other manner, the balance of the sums, required to be provided in respect of each of the following matters:- (i) the purchase price of any property purchased or to be purchased which is to be defrayed in whole or in part out of the proceeds of the issue; (ii) any preliminary expenses payable by the company, and any commission so payable to any person in consideration of his agreeing to subscribe for, or of his procuring or agreeing to procure subscriptions for, any shares in the company; (iii) the repayment of any moneys borrowed by the company in respect of any of the foregoing matters ; (iv) working capital; and (b) the amounts to be provided in respect of the matters referred to in sub-paragraph (a) otherwise than out of the proceeds of the issue and the sources out of which those amounts are to be provided. 6. The amount payable on application and allotment on each share and, in the case of a second or subsequent offer of shares, the amount offered for subscription on each previous allotment made within the 2 preceding years, the amount actually allotted, and the amount, if any, paid on the shares so allotted. 7. The number and amount of shares and debentures which, within the 2 preceding years have been issued or agreed to be issued, as fully or partly paid up otherwise than in cash, and in the latter case the extent to which they are so paid up, and in either case the consideration for which those shares or debentures have been issued or are proposed or intended to be issued. 8. The names and addresses of the vendors of any property purchased or acquired by the company, or proposed to be purchased or acquired, which is to be paid for wholly or partly out of the proceeds of the issue offered for subscription by the prospectus, or the purchase or acquisition of which has not been completed at the date of issue of the prospectus, and the amount payable in cash, shares or debentures, to the vendor; and where there is more than one separate vendor, or the company is a sub-purchaser, the amount so payable to each vendor. 9. The amount if any, paid or payable as purchase money in cash, shares or debentures, for such property, specifying the amount, if any, payable for goodwill. 10. The amount, if any, paid within the 2 preceding years or payable as commission (but not including commission to sub-underwriters) for subscribing or agreeing to subscribe, or agreeing to procure subscriptions, for any shares in, or debentures of, the company, or the rate of such commission. 12. The amount paid within the 2 preceding years or intended to be paid to any promoter, and the consideration for such payment. 13. The dates of and parties to every material contract, not being a contract entered into in the ordinary course of the business carried on or intended to be carried on by the company or a contract entered into more than 2 years before the date of issue of the prospectus, and a reasonable time and place at which such material contract or a copy thereof may be inspected. 15. Full particulars of the nature and extent of the interest, if any, of every director in the promotion of, or in the property proposed to be acquired by, the company, or, where the interest of such a director consists in being a partner in a firm, the nature and extent of the interest of the firm, with statement of all sums paid or agreed to be paid to him or to the firm in cash or shares or otherwise by any person either to induce him to become or to qualify him as a director, or, otherwise for services rendered by him or by the firm in connection with the promotion or formation of the company. 476 477 16. If the prospectus invites the public to subscribe for shares in the company and the share capital of the company is divided into different classes of shares, the right of voting at meetings of the company conferred by, and the rights in respect of capital and dividends attached to, the several classes of shares respectively. 17. In the case of a company which has been carrying on business, or of a business which has been carried on, for less than 3 years, the length of time during which the business of the company or the business to be acquired, as the case may be, has been carried on. PART II–REPORTS TO BE SET OUT IN PROSPECTUS 1. A report by the auditors of the company with respect to the profits of the company in respect of each of the three financial years immediately preceding the issue of the prospectus, and with respect to the rates of the dividends, if any, paid by the company in respect of each class of shares in the company in respect of each of the 3 years, giving particulars of each class of shares on which the dividends have been paid and particulars of the cases in which no dividends have been paid in respect of any class of shares in respect of any of those; years and, if no accounts have been made up in respect of any part of the period of 3 years ending on a date 3 months before the issue of the prospectus, containing a statement of that fact. 2. If the proceeds or any part of the proceeds, of the issue of the shares or debentures are or is to be applied directly or indirectly in the purchase of any business, a report made by accountants who shall be named in the prospectus upon the profits of the business in respect of each of the 3 financial years immediately preceding the issue of the prospectus. PART III–PROVISIONS APPLYING TO PARTS I AND II 1. The provisions of this Schedule with respect to the memorandum and the qualification, remuneration and interest of directors, the names, descriptions and addresses of directors or proposed directors, and the amount or estimated amount of the preliminary expenses, shall not apply in the case of a prospectus issued more than 2 years after the date at which the company is entitled to commence 2. Every person shall, for the purposes of this Schedule be deemed to be a vendor who has entered into any contract, absolute or conditional, for the sale or purchase or for any option of purchase, of any property, to be acquired by the company in any case where– (a) the purchase money is not fully paid at the date of the issue of the prospectus; (b) the purchase money is to be paid or satisfied wholly or in part out of the proceeds of the issue offered for subscription by the prospectus; (c) the contract depends for its validity or fulfilment on the result of that issue. 3. Where any property to be acquired by the company is to be taken on lease, this Schedule shall have effect as if the expressions “ vendor ” included the lessor, “purchase money” included the consideration for the lease, and “subpurchaser” included a sub-lessee. 4. For the purposes of item 8 of Part I, where the vendors or any of them are a firm, the members of the firm shall not be treated as separate vendors. 5. If in the case of a company which has been carrying on business, or of a business which has been carried on for less than 3 years, the accounts of the company or business have only been made up in respect of 2 years or one year, Part II shall have effect as if references to 2 years or one year, as the case may be, were substituted for references to 3 years. 6. The expression “financial year” in Part II means the year in respect of which the accounts of the company or of the business, as the case may be, are made up, and where by reason of any alteration of the date on with the financial year of the company or business terminates the accounts of the company or business have been made up for a period greater or less than a year, that greater or less period shall for the purpose of that Part be deemed to be a financial year. 478 479 No. 5 Companies Act 2009No. 5 Companies Act 2009480 481 P RINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THE G OVERNMENT P RINTING D EPARTMENT , S IERRA LEONE . GAZETTE NO . 36 OF 13TH AUGUST , 2009. Passed in Parliament this 3rd day of June, in the year of our Lord two thousand and nine. VICTOR A. KAMARA, Clerk of Parliament. THIS P RINTED I MPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed Parliament and found by me to be a true and correct printed copy of the said Bill. VICTOR A. KAMARA, Clerk of Parliament.