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Companies and Allied Matters Act 2020 · Part B · Chapter 1

Section 48 Copies of memorandum issued to embody alterations

(1)
Where an alteration is made in the memorandum of a company, every copy of the memorandum issued after the date of the alteration shall be in accordance with the alteration.
(2)
Where any such alteration has been made, the company at any time after the date of the alteration issues any copy of the memorandum which is not in accordance with the alteration, it shall be liable to such penalty as the Commission shall prescribe by regulation for each copy so issued, and every officer of the company who is in default is liable to the like penalty.
Cite as: Companies and Allied Matters Act 2020, section 48

What this section means

From the guide: Company powers, political donations and ultra vires acts under CAMA 2020

  • Every copy issued after an alteration must reflect it, and a company that issues a copy that does not is liable to a penalty set by the Commission for each copy (section 48).

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Source: Companies and Allied Matters Act 2020 (Act No. 3 of 2020), Official Gazette No. 124, Lagos, 10 August 2020. General information, not legal advice.