Cap. 168 ст. 144Annual return.

(1) Every company shall, once at least in every year, make a return in the form set out in the Fourth Schedule to this Ordinance showing the matters therein specified as on the fourteenth day after the date of the annual general meeting for the year: Provided that -

(a) a company need not make a return under this sub-article either in the year of its registration or, if it is not required by article 112 to hold an annual general meeting during the following year, in that year;

(b) where a company has converted any of its shares into stock and registered the conversion as provided in article 77(2), the list shown in paragraph 3 of the Fourth Schedule must state the amount of stock held by each of the existing members instead of the amount of shares and the particulars relating to shares required by that paragraph;

(c) the return may, in any year, if the return for either of to be or becoming members since the date of the last return and to shares transferred since that date or to changes as compared with that date in the amount of stock held by a member.

(2) The annual return, duly completed, must be signed by at least one director of the company and forwarded to the Registrar for registration within forty-two days after the annual general meeting for the year.