COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT
COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS ACT ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS PART A Companies PART I Corporate Affairs Commission
SECTION 1. Establishment of the Corporate Affairs Commission. 2. Membership of the Commission. 3. Tenure of office. 4. Remuneration and allowance. 5. Proceedings of the Commission. 6. Disclosure of interest. 7. Functions. 8. Appointment of Registrar-General. 9. Appointment of staff. 10. Right to appear in court. 11. Service in the Commission to be pensionable. 12. Fund of the Commission. 13. Expenditure of the Commission. 14. Annual accounts, audit and estimates. 15. Annual report. 16. Regulations. 17. Meaning of certain words used in this Part.
PART II Incorporation of companies and incidental matters
CHAPTER 1 Formation of Company 18. Right to form a company. 19. Partnership, etc., of more than twenty members when permitted. 20. Capacity of individual to form company. 21. Types of companies. 22. Private company. 23. Consequences of default in complying with conditions constituting a private company. 24. Public company. 25. Unlimited company to have share capital. 26. Company limited by guarantee. Memorandum of association 27. Requirements with respect to the memorandum of a company. 28. Form of memorandum. Name of company 29. Name as stated in the memorandum. 30. Prohibited and restricted names. 31. Change of name of company. 32. Reservation of name. Articles of association 33. Articles for regulating companies. 34. Form and contents of articles. Registration of companies 35. Documents of incorporation. 36. Registration. 37. Effect of registration. Capacity and powers of companies
38. Powers of companies. 39. Effect of ultra vires acts. 40. Effect of reliance on restrictions in the memorandum.
Effect of memorandum and articles 41. Effect of memorandum and articles.
Member's right to copy of memorandum and articles 42. Member's right to copies of memorandum, etc. 43. Copies of memorandum issued to embody alterations.
Alteration of memorandum and articles 44. Restriction on alteration of memorandum. 45. Alteration of memorandum. 46. Mode of alteration of business or objects. 47. Power to alter provisions in the memorandum in certain cases. 48. Alteration of articles. 49. Limitation of liability to contribute to share capital if memorandum, etc., altered.
CHAPTER 2 Conversion and re-registration of companies 50. Re-registration of private company as public. 51. Re-registration of company limited by shares as unlimited. 52. Re-registration of unlimited as limited by shares. 53. Re-registration of public company as private.
CHAPTER 3 Foreign companies 54. Foreign companies intending to carry on business in Nigeria. 55. Penalties. 56. Power to exempt foreign companies. 57. Annual report.
58. Exempted foreign company to have status of unregistered company. 59. Penalties for false information. 60. Application of certain sections to foreign companies.
CHAPTER 4 Promoters 61. Persons promoting a company. 62. Duties and liabilities of a promoter. PART III Acts by or on behalf of the company Exercise of company's powers 63. Division of powers between general meeting and board of directors. 64. Delegation to committees and managing directors. Liability for acts of the company 65. Acts of general meeting, board of directors, or of managing directors. 66. Acts of officers or agents. 67. When provision exempting, etc., officer from liability to the company is void. Constructive notice of registered documents 68. Abolition of constructive notice of registered documents. 69. Presumptions of regularity. 70. Liability of company not affected by fraud or forgery of officer. Company's contracts 71. Form of contract. 72. Pre-incorporation contracts. 73. Bills of exchange and promissory note. 74. Common seal of the company. 75. Official seal for use abroad. 76. Powers of attorney.
Authentication and service of documents SECTION
77. Authentication of documents. 78. Service of documents on companies.
PART IV Membership of company 79. Definition of member. 80. Capacity to be a member. 81. Right of member to attend meetings and vote. 82. Personation of members. Register of members 83. Register of members. 84. Location of register. 85. Index of members to be kept. 86. Entry of trusts prohibited. 87. Inspection of register and index. 88. Consequences of failure by agent's default to keep register. 89. Power to close register. 90. Power of court to rectify register. 91. Register to be evidence. Liability of members 92. Liability of members. 93. Liability for company debts where membership is below legal minimum. Disclosure of beneficial interest in shares 94. Power of company to require disclosure. 95. Obligation of disclosure by substantial shareholder in public company. 96. Person ceasing to be a substantial shareholder to notify company.
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