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Sections
Division 1 Formation of company
- Section 1 — Purpose; number of founders
- Section 2 — Form of articles of association
- Section 3 — Content of articles of association
- Section 4 — Business name
- Section 4a — Registered office
- Section 5 — Share capital; share
- Section 5a — Entrepreneurial company
- Section 6 — Directors
- Section 7 — Registration of company
- Section 8 — Content of application for registration
- Section 9 — Over-valuation of contributions in kind
- Section 9a — Claims for compensation on part of company
- Section 9b — Waiver of claims for compensation
- Section 9c — Refusal to register company
- Section 10 — Content of entry
- Section 11 — Legal status prior to entry
- Section 12 — Company announcements
Division 2 Legal relations of company and shareholders
- Section 13 — Legal person; commercial company
- Section 14 — Obligation to pay capital contribution
- Section 15 — Transfer of shares
- Section 16 — Legal status following change in shareholders or extent of participation; purchase from non-authorised persons
- Section 17
- Section 18 — Joint ownership of share
- Section 19 — Payment of capital contributions
- Section 20 — Default interest
- Section 21 — Forfeiture
- Section 22 — Liability of legal predecessors
- Section 23 — Auction of share
- Section 24 — Raising shortfalls
- Section 25 — Mandatory provisions
- Section 26 — Obligation to pay additional contributions
- Section 27 — Unlimited obligation to pay additional contributions
- Section 28 — Limited obligation to pay additional contributions
- Section 29 — Appropriation of earnings
- Section 30 — Capital maintenance
- Section 31 — Reimbursement of prohibited repayments
- Section 32 — Repayment of profit
- Section 32a
- Section 32b
- Section 33 — Purchase of own shares
- Section 34 — Collection of shares
Division 3 Representation and management
- Section 35 — Representation of company
- Section 35a — Required particulars in business letters
- Section 36 — Targets and deadlines in respect of equal participation of women and men
- Section 37 — Restrictions on power of representation
- Section 38 — Revocation of appointment
- Section 39 — Registration of directors
- Section 40 — List of shareholders, authorisation to issue statutory instruments
- Section 41 — Book-keeping
- Section 42 — Balance sheet
- Section 42a — Presentation of annual financial statements and management report
- Section 43 — Directors’ liability
- Section 43a — Granting of credit from company assets
- Section 44 — Deputies to directors
- Section 45 — Rights of shareholders
- Section 46 — Duties of shareholders
- Section 47 — Voting
- Section 48 — Meeting of shareholders
- Section 49 — Convocation of meeting
- Section 50 — Minority rights
- Section 51 — Form of convocation
- Section 51a — Right to information and right of inspection
- Section 51b — Court decision on right to information and right of inspection
- Section 52 — Supervisory board
Division 4 Amendments to articles of association
- Section 53 — Form of amendment to articles of association
- Section 54 — Application for registration and entry of amendment to articles of association
- Section 55 — Increase in share capital
- Section 55a — Authorised capital
- Section 56 — Capital increase with contributions in kind
- Section 56a — Payments towards new share capital
- Section 57 — Application to register increase
- Section 57a — Refusal to make entry
- Section 57b
- Section 57c — Capital increase from company funds
- Section 57d — Entry of capital reserves and retained earnings
- Section 57e — Taking last annual balance sheet as basis; audit
- Section 57f — Requirements of balance sheet
- Section 57g — Advance notice of annual financial statements
- Section 57h — Types of capital increase
- Section 57i — Registration and entry of resolution to increase share capital
- Section 57j — Allocation of shares
- Section 57k — Partial rights; exercise of rights
- Section 57l — Participation in increase in share capital
- Section 57m — Relation between rights; relationships to third parties
- Section 57n — Profit share of new shares
- Section 57o — Purchase costs
- Section 58 — Reduction in share capital
- Section 58a — Simplified capital reduction
- Section 58b — Amounts from release of reserves and capital reduction
- Section 58c — Non-occurrence of assumed losses
- Section 58d — Distribution of profits
- Section 58e — Capital reduction resolution
- Section 58f — Capital reduction with simultaneous increase in share capital
- Section 59
Division 5 Dissolution and nullity of company
- Section 60 — Grounds for winding up company
- Section 61 — Dissolution by court judgment
- Section 62 — Dissolution by administrative authority
- Section 63
- Section 64
- Section 65 — Registration and entry of dissolution
- Section 66 — Liquidators
- Section 67 — Registration of liquidators
- Section 68 — Signature of liquidators
- Section 69 — Legal relations of company and shareholders
- Section 70 — Duties of liquidators
- Section 71 — Opening balance; rights and duties
- Section 72 — Distribution of assets
- Section 73 — Twelve-month ban
- Section 74 — End of liquidation
- Section 75 — Proceedings for annulment
- Section 76 — Remedying of defects by resolution passed by shareholders
- Section 77 — Effect of annulment
Division 6 Special provisions applicable to companies in which Federation holds stake
Division 7 Regulatory, criminal and regulatory fines provisions
- Section 78 — Persons obligated to effect registration
- Section 79 — Penalty payments
- Section 80
- Section 81
- Section 82 — False representation
- Section 83
- Section 84 — Breach of duty to give notification of losses
- Section 85 — Breach of confidentiality
- Section 86 — Breach of duties in respect of statutory audits
- Section 87 — Regulatory fines provisions
- Section 88 — Notifications to audit oversight body