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Prize Competitions Act, 1955: sections with instruments beneath them (2)
Text
Prize Competitions Act, 1955 [A10-EHD]
As at 6 September 2026. In force from 8 August 1955.
Sections (20)
Chapter I. PRELIMINARY
Chapter II. REGISTRAR OF COMPANIES
Chapter III. OFFENCES AND PENALTIES
Section 1. Short title, extent and commencement [S1C-YPK]
Section 2. Definitions [S1C-YQH]
Section 3. Appointment of Registrar of Companies [S1C-YRF]
Section 4. Registration of liquidators [S1C-YSD]
Section 5. Prohibition of the recovery of debts without licence [S1C-YTB]
Section 6. Grant of licence [S1C-YV9]
Section 7. Maintenance of records and furnishing of returns [S1C-YW7]
Section 8. Powers of Registrar of Companies [S1C-YX5]
Section 9. Power to issue directions [S1C-YY3]
Section 10. Power to exempt [S1C-YZ1]
Section 11. Registration of companies [S1C-Z0Y]
Section 12. Prohibition of the management of a company without licence [S1C-Z1W]
Section 13. Grant of licence [S1C-Z2T]
Section 14. Penalty for contravention [S1C-Z3R]
Section 15. Offences by companies [S1C-Z4P]
Section 16. Appeal [S1C-Z5M]
Section 17. Cognizance of offences [S1C-Z6J]
Section 18. Protection of action taken in good faith [S1C-Z7G]
Section 19. Power to make rules [S1C-Z8E]
Section 20. Power to remove difficulties [S1C-Z9C]
Made under
No recital of a power is printed.
Acts on (0)
none
Acted on by (2)
Amends: Prize Competitions Act (Amendment) Act, 2017 [A11-M5F], 21 March 2017. "section 14 of the Prize Competitions Act, 1955 (42 of 1955)".
Amends: Prize Competitions Act (Amendment) Act, 1970 [A10-N3F], 4 June 1970. "section 16 of the Prize Competitions Act, 1955 (42 of 1955)".
Not held (1)
"section 408 of the Companies Act, 2013"
Sort rules. Subjects by name. Acts by year, then number. Sections in the order of the arrangement. Instruments by date, then number. Amendments by date. An instrument stands under the section its recital names; where the register resolved no section, it stands under No power resolved. Counts are the rows beneath.