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Charitable Trusts Act 1957

Incorporation of trust boards

29: Inspection, production, and evidence of documents kept by Registrar

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“How you can see and use official documents from the Registrar”

You can look at documents kept by the Registrar if you pay a fee. These fees are set by rules.

If you’re part of a board and you’ve lost your certificate of incorporation, you can ask the Registrar for a new one. You’ll need to pay a fee and prove that you’ve lost the old one.

You can also ask for copies of documents or parts of documents that the Registrar keeps. You’ll need to pay a fee for this too.

Courts can’t make the Registrar show documents unless the court gives special permission. If a court does this, they must say so on the document that asks for it.

If you need to use a copy of a Registrar’s document in court, it’s just as good as the original if the Registrar says it’s a true copy.

If there aren’t any rules about how much these fees should be, they’ll be the same as the fees in section 363 of the Companies Act 1993. All the money from these fees goes into a Crown Bank Account.

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Part 2 Incorporation of trust boards

29Inspection, production, and evidence of documents kept by Registrar

  1. Any person may inspect the documents kept by the Registrar on payment of such fees as may be prescribed.

  2. Any board may, on payment of the prescribed fee and on proof that every certificate of the incorporation of the board which has previously been issued has been lost or destroyed, require the Registrar to issue under his seal a further certificate of incorporation in respect of the board.

  3. Any person may, on payment of the prescribed fee, require a copy of or extract from the register or any document lodged with the Registrar under this Act to be given or certified by the Registrar under his hand and seal.

  4. No process for compelling the production of any document kept by the Registrar shall issue from any court, except with the leave of that court, and any such process if issued shall bear thereon a statement that it is issued with the leave of the court.

  5. A copy of or extract from any document kept by or lodged with the Registrar under this Part, certified to be a true copy or extract under the hand and seal of the Registrar (whose official position it shall not be necessary to prove), shall in all legal proceedings be admissible in evidence as of equal validity with the original document.

  6. At any time while there are no regulations prescribing the fees payable under this section, or so far as no such fees are prescribed by any regulations, the fees so payable shall be the same as those payable under the corresponding provisions in section 363 of the Companies Act 1993. All fees paid to the Registrar under this Act shall be paid into a Crown Bank Account, and shall form part of a Crown Bank Account.

Compare
  • 1955 No 63 ss 8(3), 9
Notes
  • Section 29(6): amended, on , by section 14 of the Companies Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 111).
  • Section 29(6): amended, on , pursuant to section 83(7) of the Public Finance Act 1989 (1989 No 44).