Section 215 - Register of directors and Company Secretary

(1) A company shall keep at the registered office of the company

(a) a register of the directors of the company; and

(b) a register of the Company Secretaries.

(2) The register of directors referred to in subsection (1) shall include a record of substitute directors appointed in accordance with section 180 but shall not include a record of alternate directors appointed in accordance with section 181.

(3) The register shall contain with respect to each director,

(a) the present forenames and surname;

(b) any former forename or surname;

(c) the usual residential address;

(d) the business occupation; and

(e) particulars of any other directorships, other than alternate directorships held by the director.

(4) The register shall contain with respect to the Company Secretary or, where there are joint Company Secretaries, with respect to each of them,

(a) in the case of an individual, the particulars required by paragraphs (a) to (d) of subsection (3); and

(b) in the case of a body corporate, its corporate name and registered or principal office.

(5) Where all the partners in a firm are joint Company Secretaries, the name and principal office of the firm may be stated instead of the residential address of each partner.

(6) The register shall, during business hours, subject to the reasonable restrictions that the company may by the constitution of the company impose, be open to the inspection of a member of the company without charge and any other person on payment of a prescribed fee, for each inspection.

(7) Not less than two hours in each day, other than a Saturday, Sunday or a public holiday shall be allowed for inspection under subsection (6).

(8) If an inspection required under this section is refused or where there is a default in compliance with subsection (1), (2), (3) or (4), the company and every officer of the company that is in default is liable to pay to the Registrar, an administrative penalty of five hundred penalty units and in the case of a refusal the Court may by order compel an immediate inspection of the register.

(9) For the purposes of this section and of sections 186 and 216,

(a) in the case of a person usually known by a title different from the surname, the expression “surname” means that title; and

(b) references to a former name do not include,

(i) in the case of a person usually known by a title, the name by which that person was known before the succession to that title;

(ii) a name changed or disused before the person bearing the name attained the age of eighteen years or changed or disused for a period of not less than twenty years; or

(iii) in the case of a married person, the name by which that person was known before the marriage.