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guilty of an offence, and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred monetary units.

Offence if membership of private company exceeds number specified in articles

48. (1) A company shall maintain a register of its members and enter therein the following particulars:

Register of members

(a) the full name and address of each member of which it has received notice;

(b) the occupation of the member, if the member is an individual;

(c) the fact that the member is a body corporate or an unincorporated association, as the case may be, if the member is not an individual;

(d) the date on which the company received the notice;

(e) if the company has share capital-

(i) the shares held by each member with the share numbers (if any); and

(ii) the amount paid or agreed to be considered as paid on the shares of each member;

(f) the amount that each member has guaranteed in his declaration of guarantee, if the company is limited by guarantee;

(g) the date on which the company received notice of any person's ceasing to be a member.

(2) If the company has more than fifty members, the register shall contain an index of the names of the members in a form that enables the account of each member to be found readily.

(3) If the company fails to comply with this section, the company, and each officer in default, shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding ten monetary units for each day that the failure continues.

(4) If the company fails to comply with this section because of the default of an agent charged with maintaining the register, the agent shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding ten monetary units for each day that the failure continues.

49. (1) Subject to this Part, the register and index of the names of the members of the company shall be available for inspection by any member of the company or other person in accordance with section one hundred and ninety-three.

Inspection of register

(2) A company may, on giving notice by advertisement in a newspaper circulating generally throughout Zambia, close for any time or times not exceeding in total thirty days in each year the register of members of the company or the part thereof relating to members holding shares of any class.

50. (1) If- Power of court to

rectify register

(a) a company fails to correct an error in its register of members; or

(b) an error in the register causes a loss to a person;

the person aggrieved or any member of the company may apply to the court for an order that the register be rectified and the person aggrieved may apply for an order that the company pay compensation for the loss.

(2) If an application is made under this section, the court may make such orders as it thinks fit.

(3) On an application under this section, the court may decide any question relating to the title of any person who is a party to the application to have his name entered in or removed from the register, whether the question arises between members or alleged members, or between members or alleged members on the one hand and the company on the other hand, and generally may decide any question necessary or convenient to be decided for rectification of the register.

(4) If an order is made under this section, the company shall, within twenty-one days after the making of the order, lodge a certified copy of the order with the Registrar.

(5) If the company fails to comply with subsection (4), the company, and each officer in default, shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding three monetary units for each day that the failure continues.

51. (1) A company with share capital may, subject to its articles, keep a part of its register of members (in this Act called a "branch register"), being the part relating to members resident in a specified foreign country or countries, at a place in the foreign country, or one of the foreign countries.

Company may keep branch register

(2) The shares registered in a branch register shall be distinguished from the other shares of the company while they are held by members resident in a country to which the branch register applies.

(3) The company shall arrange for the information as to any entry in a branch register to be transmitted to its registered records office as quickly as practicable, and shall maintain there, as part of its register of members, a duplicate of the branch register.

(4) The company shall lodge with the Registrar notice of the physical address of the office where any branch register is kept, and of any change in that address and, if it is discontinued, of its discontinuance, and any such notice shall be given within twenty-one days after the initial keeping of the register in that office or of the change or discontinuance, as the case may be.

(5) A branch register shall be maintained and shall be open for inspection in the manner required in sections forty-eight and forty-nine, or as nearly as is practicable, except that the advertisement before closing the register shall be inserted in some newspaper circulating generally in the country where the branch register is kept.

(6) If a company fails to comply with subsection (3), (4) or (5), the company, and each officer in default, shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding ten monetary units for each day that the failure continues.

52. An instrument of transfer of any share registered in a branch register shall be