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Third Schedule., Cap 249
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pART I.-MATTERS REQUIRED TO BE STATED IN PROSPECTUS.
l. 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.
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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 the company.
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
asto-
(i) 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-
(a) 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;
(b) 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;
(c) the repayment of any moneys borrowed by the company
in respect of any of the foregoing matters;
(d) working capital; and
(ii) the amounts to be provided in respect of the matters aforesaid
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 two 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
two 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 so 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 any such property as aforesaid, specifying the
amount, if any, payable for goodwill.
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10. The amount, if any, paid within the two preceding years, or payable,
as commission (but not including commission to sub-underwriters) for
subscribing or agreeing to subscribe, or procuring or agreeing to procure
subscriptions, for any shares in, or debentures of, the company, or the rate
of any such commission.
11. The amount or estimated amount of preliminary expenses.
12. The amount paid within the two preceding years or intended to be
paid to any promoter, and the consideration for any 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 two years before the date of issue of the prospectus, and a reasonable
time and place at which any such material contract or a copy thereof may
be inspected.
14. The names and addresses of the auditors, if any, of the company.
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 a 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
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 three 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 H.--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 said three years, giving particulars of
each such class of shares on which such 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 three years ending on
a date three 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 three
financial years immediately preceding the issue of the prospectus.
Sec. 41.
PART IlL-PRoVISIONS APPLYING TO PARTS I AND II oF ScHEDULE.
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 two years after the date at which the
company is entitled to commence business.
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 expression " vendor"
included the lessor, and the expression "purchase money" included the
consideration for the lease, and the expression " sub-purchaser " included
a sub-lessee.
4. For the purposes of paragraph 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 three years, the
accounts of the company or business have only been made up in respect of
two years or one year, Part II shall have effect as if references to two years
or one year, as the case may be, were substituted for references to three
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 which
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 the said Part be
deemed to be a financial year.
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