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Section 292, The Companies Act, 2009
In forceThe Companies Act, 2009, Sierra Leone
(1) The additional matters contained in the Third Schedule shall be disclosed in the company’s financial statements
for the year; and in that Schedule where a thing is required to be
stated or shown or information is required to be given, it shall be
construed to mean that the thing shall be stated or shown, or the
information is to be given in a note to those statements.
(2) In the Third Schedule–
(a) Parts I and II deal respectively with the
disclosure of particulars of the subsidiaries
of the company and its shareholders;
(b) Part III deals with the disclosure of financial
information relating to subsidiaries;
(c) Part IV requires a subsidiary company to
disclose its ultimate holding company;
(d) Part V deals with the emoluments of directors,
including emoluments waived, pensions of
directors and compensation for loss of office
to directors and past directors; and
(e) Part VI deals with disclosure of the number
of the employees of the company who are
remunerated at higher rates.
(3) Whenever it is stated in the Third Schedule that this
subsection shall apply to certain particulars or information, the
particulars or information shall be annexed to the annual return first
made by the company after copies of its financial statements have
been laid before its shareholders in a general meeting; and if a
company fails to satisfy an obligation thus imposed, the company
and every officer who is in default shall be guilty of an offence and
shall be liable to a fine not exceeding Le5,000,000 and for continued
contravention, to a daily default fine of Le500,000.
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(4) It shall be the duty of any director of a company to
give notice to the company of such matters relating to himself as may
be necessary for the purposes of Part V of the Third Schedule and
this applies to persons who are or have at any time in the preceding
3 years been officers as it applies to directors.
(5) A person who defaults in complying with subsection
(4) shall be guilty of an offence and be liable to a fine of Le.3,000,000
for each day during which the default continues.
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