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Section 482, The Companies Act, 2009
In forceThe Companies Act, 2009, Sierra Leone
(1) This section applies where, in pursuance of such ascheme or contract as is referred to in section 481, shares in a
company are transferred to another company or its nominee, and
those shares (together with any other shares in the first-mentioned
company held by, or by a nominee for, the transferee company or its
subsidiary at the date of the transfer) comprise or include nine-tenths
in value of the shares in the first mentioned company or of any class
of those shares.
(2) The transferee company shall, within one month from
the date of the transfer (unless on a previous transfer in pursuance of
the scheme or contract it has already complied with this requirement),
give notice of that fact in the prescribed manner to the holders of the
remaining shares or of the remaining shares of that class (as the case
may be) who have not assented to the scheme or contract.
(3) Such a holder may, within 3 months from the giving of
that notice to him, himself give notice (in the prescribed form) requiring
the transferee company to acquire the shares in question.
(4) If a shareholder gives notice under subsection (3)
with respect to any shares, the transferee company is then entitled
and bound to acquire those shares on the terms on which under
the scheme or contract the shares of the approving shareholders
were transferred to it, or on such other terms as may be agreed or as
the court on the application of either the transferee company or the
shareholder thinks fit to order.
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