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SECURITIES INDUSTRY ACT 1980 No. 66, 1980 - SECT 89

Register to be maintained
89. (1) A person to whom this Part applies shall maintain a Register, in
accordance with the prescribed form or in the prescribed manner, for the
purposes of this Part and shall keep the Register at a place in the Territory
or in a participating State or participating Territory.

(2) Where-

   (a)  a person is at the commencement of this Act, or becomes after that
        commencement, a person to whom this Part applies; and

   (b)  the person is aware at that commencement or when he becomes such a
        person, as the case may be, that he has a relevant interest in
        securities, he shall, within 7 days after the date of commencement of
        this Act or the day on which he becomes such a person, as the case may
        be, if he has not already done so, cause to be entered, as prescribed,
        in the Register particulars of those securities and of the nature of
        his relevant interest in those securities.

(3) Where a person to whom this Part applies becomes aware that he has a
relevant interest in securities he shall, within 7 days after the day on which
he becomes so aware, cause to be entered, as prescribed, in the Register
particulars of those securities and of the nature of his relevant interest in
those securities.

(4) Where there is a change in the relevant interest of a person to whom this
Part applies in securities, he shall, within 7 days after the day on which he
becomes aware of the change, cause particulars of the change to be entered in
the Register.

(5) For the purposes of this section, where a person to whom this Part applies
commences or ceases to have a relevant interest in securities, there shall be
deemed to be a change in the relevant interest of that person in those
securities.

(6) Where a person to whom this Part applies is required by this section to
enter in the Register particulars of any securities and of the nature of his
relevant interest in those securities, or particulars of a change in his
relevant interest in any securities, the particulars to be so entered shall
include-

   (a)  the date on which he commenced or ceased to have the relevant interest
        or on which the change occurred;

   (b)  the number of securities to which the relevant interest relates or
        related;

   (c)  if the relevant interest was acquired or disposed of or the change
        occurred for valuable consideration-the amount of the consideration
        and, if the consideration did not consist wholly of money, the nature
        of the part of the consideration that did not consist of money; and

   (d)  if the securities are not registered in the name of the
        first-mentioned person-the name of the person who is registered as the
        holder of the securities or, if any other person is entitled to become
        registered as the holder of the securities, the name of that other
        person.

Penalty: $2,500 or imprisonment for 6 months, or both. 


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