Companies Act, 1973 (Act No. 61 of 1973)Chapter VIII: DirectorsRegister of Directors and Officers215. Register of directors and officers |
| 1) | Every company shall keep in one of the official languages of the Republic a register of directors and officers of the company and secretaries thereof which are bodies corporate and cause to be entered therein- |
| a) | in respect of every director or officer- |
| i) | his full forenames and surname and any former forenames and surname, his identity number or, if he has no such number, his date of birth, his nationality if not South African, his occupation, his residential, business and postal addresses and the date of his appointment; and |
| ii) | the name and registration number of every other company of which such director is a director: |
| b) | in respect of every officer or secretary which is a body corporate, its name, its registration number, the address of its registered office and the date of its appointment: and |
| c) | any changes occurring from time to time in the particulars referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) and the dates and nature of such changes. |
| 2) | There shall in addition be entered in the said register the name and date of appointment of the auditor of the company and where subsection 274(3) applies, also of the individual contemplated in that subsection, and, in each case, the date and particulars of any change of such name and date of appointment. |
| 3) | For the purposes of subsection (1) (a) "former forenames and surname" does not include- |
| a) | in the case of a person adopted as a child, any forename and surname borne by him before his adoption: or |
| b) | any forename or surname previously borne by any person which was changed or disused before he attained the age of eighteen years or has been changed or disused for a period of not less than ten years; or |
| c) | in the case of a married or divorced woman or a widow, any forename or surname borne by her before her marriage. |
| 4) | The provisions of section 110 as to the place where the register of members of a company shall be kept and notice thereof to the Registrar and of section 113 as to the inspection of and copies of or extracts from that register, shall apply mutatis mutandis to the register to be kept under this section. |
| 5) | Any company which fails to comply with any provision of subsection (1), (2) or (4), shall be guilty of an offence. |