Section 17: Power to require compliance

17. Power to require compliance (1) Where a person fails to comply with any requirement of this Act or the Companies Act 1984 relating to the filing of a document or the giving of a notice, the Registrar may require the person to make good the default within 14 days of the service on the person of a notice requiring him to do so. (2) Upon a failure by a person to comply with subsection (1), the Registrar may apply to the Court for an order directing the person, to make good the default within such time as may be specified in the order. (3) Any order under subsection (2) may provide that all costs of and incidental to the application and the order thereon shall be borne by the company or by any officers of the company responsible for the default. (4) This section shall be without prejudice to the operation of any enactment imposing penalties on a company or its officers in respect of any such default. (5) An application under subsection (2) may be made to the District Court in its civil jurisdiction and the District Court may exercise the powers of the Court under that subsection.