Section 462 — Registration offices

(1) For the purposes of the registration of

companies and other work under this Act, there shall be offices at such places as
the Commission thinks fit.

(2) The Commission may appoint such registrars as it thinks necessary
for the registration of companies and performing other duties under this Act, and
may make regulations with respect to their duties.

(3) While performing their functions and duties under this Act, all
registrars shall observe and follow the order and instructions of the Commission.

(4) The Commission may direct a seal or seals to be prepared for the
authentication of documents required for or connected with the registration of
companies.

(5) Any person may, in the m anner as may be specified, inspect the
documents kept by the registrar and may require a certified copy of certificate of
incorporation or any other certificate of any company, or a copy or extract of any
other document or register maintained by the regist rar or any part thereof on
payment of the fees specified in the Seventh Schedule.

(6) A copy of or an extract from any document filed or lodged, whether
in electronic or physical form, with the Commission or the registrar under this Act
or the rules or regulations made thereunder or supplied or issued by the Commission
or the registrar and certified to be a true copy thereof or extract therefrom under the
hand and seal of an officer of the Commission or the registrar, shall be admissible
in evidence in any proceedings as of equal validity as the original document.

(7) Where a document is filed or lodged, whether in electronic or
physical form, with the Commission or the registrar, the Commission or the
registrar shall not be liable for any loss or damage suffered by any person by reason
of any error or omission of whatever nature arising or appearing in any document
obtained by any person under the e -service or in physical form under this Act or
the rules or regulations made thereunder, if such error or omission was made in
good faith and in the ordinary course of the discharge of the duties of the
Commission or the registrar or occurred or arose as a result of any defect or
breakdown in the service or in the equipment used for the provision of the e-service.

(8) Wherever any act is by this Act directed to be done to or by the
registrar it shall, until the Commission otherwise directs, be done to or by the
existing Registrar of Companies or in his absence to or by such perso n as the
Commission may for the time being authorise; but, in the event of the Commission
altering the constitution of the existing registration offices or any of them, any such
act shall be done to or by such officer and at such place with reference to th e local
situation of the registered offices of the companies to be registered as the
Commission may appoint.