The Companies Act, 2019 ( ACT 992)
Section 289: (1) Where the Registrar, by reference to personal knowledge, or on information supplied by any officer, member or creditor of a com- pany, has reasonable cause to believe that the company is not carrying on business or is not in operation, the Registrar may by written communi- cation to the company enquire whether the company is carrying on busi- ness or is in operation.
(2) Where the Registrar does not receive an answer to the written communication, within two months of the communication, the Registrar may send to the company a second written communication referring to the first written communication, stating that an answer has not been received by the Registrar, and that if an answer is not received to the second written communication within two months from the date of the second written communication, a notice will be published in the Compa- nies Bulletin with a view to striking the name of the company off the register.
(3) Where the Registrar receives an answer from the company to the effect that it is not carrying on business or in operation, or does not within the specified time after sending the second written communica- tion receive an answer to the second written communication, the Regis- trar may publish in the Companies Bulletin and send to the company by writ- ten communication a notice that at the expiration of three months from the date of that notice the name of the company shall, unless cause is shown to the contrary, be struck off the register and the company shall stand dissolved.
(4) Where a company is being wound up and the Registrar has reasonable cause to believe that a liquidator is acting but is not satisfied that the winding up is complete, the Registrar may publish in the Compa- nies Bulletin and send to the company and to the last known place of business of the person last known to have acted as liquidator, a notice as is provided in subsection (3).
(5) At or after the expiration of the time specified in the notice, the Registrar shall, unless cause is shown, strike the name of the company off the register and shall publish the notice of that fact in the Companies Bulletin and on that publication in the Companies Bulletin the company shall stand dissolved.
(6) For the purposes of subsection (5), the liability of every director or other officer and member of the company shall continue and may be enforced as if the company had not been dissolved; but the subsection does not affect the power of the Court to order the winding up of the company.
(7) When the name of a company is struck off the register under this section, at any time within twelve years after the publication in the Companies Bulletin in accordance with subsection (5), the Court may, on application made for this purpose by a liquidator or by a former officer, member or creditor of the company, or by a person claiming through or under any of them, make an order on the terms that the Court considers fit, declaring the dissolution void and ordering the name of the com- pany to be restored to the register and subsection (3) shall apply as if the order was one made under this section.
(8) A notice or written communication to be sent under this section to a company
(a) may be addressed to
(i) the company at the registered office of the company,
(ii) a company at the last known place of business of the company if an office has not been registered, or
(iii) the care of an officer of the company, or
(b) maybe sent to the person or each of the persons who sub- scribed to the incorporation of the company addressed to that person at the address mentioned in the subscription to the incorporation of the company or to the Registrar if there is no officer of the company whose name and address are known.
Procedure to Follow
1. Applicant may purchase a set of Limited Liability Forms from the in-house bank or via download
2. Provide Consent letter from certified auditor by the Institute of Chartered Auditors and must be registered as a Sole Proprietor/Partnership
3. Form 3 must be witnessed by Commissioner for Oaths/Notary Public/Self-Declared
4. A minimum of two directors is required. Each must submit Statutory Declaration & Consent Letter with the registion Form
5. Submit filled forms at the Company Registration Counter for Verification and Capturing or via Online
6. Pay two hundred and thirty Ghanaian Cedi (GHS 230) for Incorporation or via Online Also Filing fee of Fifty Ghanaian Cedi (GHS 50) and 0.5% stamp duty on stated capital at the in-house bank or via Online Registrar Examines, Approves & Issues : Certificate of Incorporation Certified Copy(CTC) of Standard/Registered Constitution of the Company Certified Copy(CTC) of Form 3 File Annual Returns at Fifty Ghanaian Cedi(GHS 50) together with Audited Account
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Responsible Institution
- Email: info@rgd.gov.gh
- Website: https://www.rgd.gov.gh
- GPS: GA-143-4647
- Telephone: +233 302 664 691-93
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