| (1) | Subject to the availability of the original document, any person may, on payment of the prescribed fee (including an additional fee if any document is not collected personally at the Registration Office)— |
| (b) | obtain a certificate from the Registrar as to the contents or part of the contents of any such document open to inspection; or |
| (c) | obtain a copy of or extract from any such document. |
| (1A) | Any person may, on payment of the prescribed fee, through any electronic medium approved by the Registrar— |
| (a) | inspect any document which has been lodged with the Registrar under this Act and converted into electronic format; |
| (b) | obtain a copy of or extract from any such converted document; or |
| (c) | obtain a certificate from the Registrar as to the contents or part of the contents of any documentation kept by him or her in terms of this Act in respect of any corporation. |
| (2) | If the Registrar is satisfied— |
| (a) | that any such inspection, certificate, copy or extract is required on behalf of a foreign government accredited to the Government of the Republic; and |
| (b) | that no fee is payable in the foreign country concerned in respect of a corresponding inspection, certificate, copy or extract required on behalf of the Government of the Republic, |
no fee referred to in subsection (1) or (1A) shall be payable.
| (3) | If the Registrar is satisfied that any such inspection, certificate, copy or extract is required for purposes of research by or under the control of an institution for higher education, he may permit such inspection or furnish such certificate, copy or extract without payment of fees. |
