Clause 5

by deleting the words “, whether before or after 15th May 1987, for the use of subscribers, whereby documents required under this Act may be filed electronically with the Registry” in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th lines of subsection (1) and substituting the words “whereby documents under this Act may be filed or lodged with or submitted to the Registrar electronically”;

by inserting, immediately after subsection (1), the following subsections:“(1A) The Minister may by regulations permit or require any document —

to be filed or lodged with or submitted to the Registrar under this Act; or

to be issued by the Registrar under this Act,to be filed, lodged, submitted or issued using the service referred to in subsection (1).(1B) The regulations under subsection (1A) may —

permit or require such document to be lodged, filed or submitted by a prescribed person on behalf of the person concerned under specified circumstances; and

contain such transitional and other supplementary and incidental provisions as appear to the Minister to be appropriate.”;

by deleting the words “with the Registry of Companies” in the 2nd line of subsection (2) and substituting the words “or lodged with or submitted to the Registrar”; and

by deleting subsection (3) and substituting the following subsections:“(3) Any information supplied by the Registrar that is certified by the Registrar under his hand and seal to be a true extract from any document filed or lodged with or submitted to the Registrar using the service referred to in subsection (1) shall in any proceedings be admissible in evidence and be presumed, unless evidence to the contrary is adduced, to be a true extract from such document.(4) Subsections (2) and (3) have effect notwithstanding the provisions of any other written law.(5) In this section, “document” means any application, form, report, certification, notice, confirmation, declaration or other document to be filed or lodged with or submitted to the Registrar or, as the case may be, any certificate, notice or other document to be issued by the Registrar.”.