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Companies Act, 1973 (Act No. 61 of 1973)

Chapter V: Share capital, Acquisition by Companies of own Shares, Shares, Allotment and Issue of Shares, Members and Register of Members, Debentures, Transfers, and Restrictions on Offering Shares for Sale

Members and registers of members

103. Who are members of a company

 

 

1) The subscribers of the memorandum of a company shall be deemed to have agreed to become members of the company upon its incorporation, and shall forthwith be entered as members in its register of members.

 

2) Every other person who agrees to become a member of a company and whose name is entered in its register of members, shall be a member of the company.

 

3) A company shall, subject to the provisions of its articles, enter in the register as a member, nomine officii, of the company, the name of any person who submits proof of his appointment as the executor, administrator, trustee, curator or guardian in respect of the estate of a deceased member of the company or of a member whose estate has been sequestrated or of a member who is otherwise under disability or as the liquidator of any body corporate in the course of being wound up which is a member of the company, and any person whose name has been so entered in the register shall for the purposes of this Act be deemed to be a member of the company.

 

4) Subject to the provisions of section 213(1)(b), the bearer of a share warrant may, if the articles of the company so provide, be deemed to be a member of the company within the meaning of this Act, either for all purposes or for such purposes as may be specified in the articles.