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Section 191, The Companies Act, 2009
In forceThe Companies Act, 2009, Sierra Leone
(1) The following persons shall be entitled to receivenotice of general meetings–
(a) every member of the company;
(b) every person upon whom the ownership of a
share devolves by reason of his being a legal
representative, receiver or a trustee in
bankruptcy of a member;
(c) every director of the company;
(d) every auditor for the time being of the
(e) the secretary.
(2) No other person shall be entitled to receive notices of
general meetings.
189. shall be given either personally, by post or by electronic
means to the registered address either in Sierra Leone or elsewhere,
of the person entitled to receive the notice.
(2) Where a notice is sent by post, service of the notice
shall be deemed to be effected where a letter containing the notice
has been properly addressed, prepaid, and posted and unless the
contrary is proved to have been effected in the case of a notice of a
meeting at the expiration of 7 days after the letter containing the
notice is posted, and in any other case at the time at which the letter
would be delivered in the ordinary course of post.
(3) If a person has no registered address in Sierra Leone
and has not supplied to the company an address within Sierra Leone
for the giving of notice to him, a notice addressed to him published in
the Gazette or advertised in a newspaper circulating in the area of the
registered office of the company, shall be deemed to be duly given to
him at noon on the day on which the later notice appears.
(4) A notice may be given by the company to the joint
holders of a share by giving the notice to the joint holder first named
in the register of members in respect of the share.
(5) A notice may be given by the company to the persons
entitled to a share in consequence of the death or bankruptcy of a
member by sending it through the post in a prepaid letter addressed
to them by name, or by the title of the representatives of the deceased,
or trustee of the bankrupt, or by any like description, at the address,
if any, within Sierra Leone supplied for the purpose by the person
claiming to be so entitled, or (until such an address has been so
supplied) by giving the notice in any manner in which it might have
been given if the death or bankruptcy had not occurred.
(6) “Registered address” means, in the case of a member,
any address supplied by him to the company for the giving of notice
to him and includes an e-mail address.
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