Section 100 — Requirement to register a mortgage or charge

(1) A company
that creates a mortgage or charge to which this section applies must file the
specified particulars of the mortgage or charge, together with a copy of the
instrument, if any, verified in the specified manner, by which the mortgage or
charge is created or evidenced, with the registrar for registration within a period of
thirty days beginning with the day after the date of its creation:

Provided that—

(a) in the case of a mortgage or charge created out of Pakistan
comprising solely property situated outside Pakistan, thirty days
after the date on which the instrument or copy could, in due course
of post, and if dispatched with due diligence, have been received in
Pakistan shall be substituted for thirty days after the date of the
creation of the mortgage or charge as the time within which the
particulars and instrument or copy are to be filed with the registrar;
and

(b) in case the mortgage or charge is created in Pakistan but comprises
property outside Pakistan, a copy of the instrument creating or
purporting to create the mortgage or charge verified in the specified
manner may be filed for registration notwithstanding that further
proceedings may be necessary to make the mortgage or charge valid
or effectual according to the law of the country in which the property
is situate:

Provided further that any subsequent registration of a mortgage or charge
shall not prejudice any right acquired in respect of any property before the
mortgage or charge is actually registered.

(2) This section applies to the following charges—

(a) a mortgage or charge on any immovable property wherever situate,
or any interest therein; or

(b) a mortgage or charge for the purposes of securing any issue of
debentures;

(c) a mortgage or charge on book debts of the company;

(d) a floating charge on the undertaking or property of the company,
including stock-in-trade; or

(e) a charge on a ship or aircraft, or any share in a ship or aircraft;

(f) a charge on goodwill or on any intellectual property;

(g) a mortgage or charge or pledge, on any movable property of the
company;

(h) a mortgage or charge or other interest, based on agreement for the
issue of any instrument in the nature of redeemable capital; or

(i) a mortgage or charge or other interest, based on conditional sale
agreement, namely, lease financing, hire-purchase, sale and lease
back, and retention of title, for acquisition of machinery, equipment
or other goods:

Provided that where a negotiable instrument has been given to secure the
payment of any book debts of a company, the deposit of the instrument for the
purpose of securing an advance to the company shall not for the purpose of this
sub-section be treated as a mortgage or charge on those book debts.
Explanation.—For the purposes of this Act “charge” includes mortgage
or pledge.
(3) The registrar shall, on registration of a mortgage or charge under
sub-section (1) issue a certificate of registration under his signatures or
authenticated by his official seal in such form and in such manner as may be
specified.

(4) The provisions of this section relating to registration shall apply to
a company acquiring any property subject to a mortgage or charge.
(5) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time
being in force, no mortgage or charge created by a company shall be taken into
account by the liquidator or any other creditor unless it is duly registered under sub-
section (1) and a certificate of registration of such charge is given by the registrar
under sub-section (3).

(6) Nothing in sub-section (5) shall prejudice any contract or obligation
for repayment of the money thereby secured.

(7) Where any mortgage or charge on any property or assets of a
company or any of its undertakings is registered under this section, any person
acquiring such property, assets, undertakings or part thereof or any share or interest
therein shall be deemed to have notice of the mortgage or charge from the date of
such registration.