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COMPANIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1960 - SECT 389

1979 NI 19

389.(1) If on an application made in accordance with rules of court to [the
High Court] by [the Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland]
the Ministry or a county inspector, there is shown to be reasonable cause to
believe that any person has, while an officer of a company, committed an
offence in connection with the management of the company's affairs and that
evidence of the commission of the offence is to be found in any books or
papers of or under the control of the company, an order may be made

(a)authorising any person named therein to inspect the said books or papers or
any of them for the purpose of investigating and obtaining evidence of the
offence; or

(b)requiring the secretary of the company or such other officer thereof as may
be named in the order to produce the said books or papers or any of them to a
person named in the order at a place so named.

(2) Sub-section (1) shall apply also in relation to any books or papers of a
person carrying on the business of banking so far as they relate to
the company's affairs, as it applies to any books or papers of or under the
control of the company, except that no such order as is referred to in
paragraph (b) thereof shall be made by virtue of this sub-section.

(3) The decision of [the High Court] on an application under this section
shall be final and conclusive.

S.390 rep. by 1978 NI12 art.153(2) sch.7

Penalty for improper use of word "limited".

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