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COMPANIES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1978 - SECT 126

126.(1) For the purpose of securing that documents delivered to the register
of companies under the provisions to the Companies Acts are of standard size,
durable and easily legible, the Department may make regulations prescribing
such requirements, whether as to size, weight, quality or colour of paper,
size, type or colouring of lettering, or otherwise, as the Department may
consider appropriate.

(2) If under any such provision there is delivered to the registrar of
companies a document whether being an original document or a copy, which in
the opinion of the registrar does not comply with such requirements prescribed
under this Article as are applicable to it, the registrar may serve on any
person by whom under that provision the document was required to be delivered,
or, if there are two or more such persons, may serve on any of them, a notice
stating his opinion to that effect and indicating the requirements so
prescribed with which in his opinion the document does not comply.

(3) Where the registrar of companies serves a notice under paragraph (2) with
respect to a document delivered under any such provision, then, for the
purposes of any enactment which enables a penalty to be imposed in respect of
any omission to deliver to the registrar of companies a document required to
be delivered under that provision, and, in particular, for the purposes of any
such enactment whereby such a penalty may be imposed by reference to each day
during which the omission continues,

(a)any duty imposed by that provision to deliver such a document to the
registrar shall be treated as not having been discharged by the delivery of
that document; but

(b)no account shall be taken of any days falling within the period mentioned
in paragraph (4).

(4) The period referred to in paragraph (3)(b) is the period beginning with
the day on which the document was delivered to the registrar as mentioned in
paragraph (2) and ending with the fourteenth day after the date of service of
the notice under paragraph (2) by virtue of which paragraph (3) applies.

(5) In this Article any reference to delivering a document shall be construed
as including a reference to sending, forwarding, producing or, in the case of
a notice, giving it.

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