Chapter 4

General provisions about share registers etc.

105. —(1) The Minister may, by order, alter any of the charges referred to in—

(a) section 60 (5) of this Act or section 92 (1), 119 (1) or 195 (10) (inserted by section 51 of this Act) of the Principal Act, or

(b) section 60 (8) or 88 (3) of this Act, or section 92 (2), 92 (3), 119 (2) or 146 (2) of the Principal Act.

(2) The Minister may also, by order, alter the basis of any of the charges referred to in the provisions specified in subsection (1) (b) from the basis referred to in those provisions to some other basis.

(3) In making any order under this section, the Minister shall take into account the general costs incurred by a company in facilitating the inspection, or providing copies, of the registers or other documents referred to in subsection (1).

(4) Every order made under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and if a resolution annulling the order is passed by either House within the next 21 days on which that House has sat after the order is laid before it, the order shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.

106. —(1) Where on the commencement of this section a person has an interest which, if it was acquired after such commencement, would be subject to a notification requirement under Chapter 1 or 2 he shall be under an obligation to make to the company the notification with respect to his interest required by the Chapter concerned.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), sections 56 and 71 (1) shall apply as if, for the period of 5 days mentioned in each of those provisions, there were substituted a period of 14 days.

(3) Section 73 shall apply in relation to an agreement notwithstanding that it was made before the commencement of this section or that any such acquisition of shares as is mentioned in subsection (1) (b) of that section took place before such commencement.