Companies Act, 1973 (Act No. 61 of 1973)Chapter XIII: External CompaniesAdministrative and Other Duties of External Companies331. Further administrative duties of external company |
| 1) | Every external company shall- |
| a) | conspicuously exhibit outside all its places of business in the Republic the name of the company and the foreign country in which the company is incorporated; and |
| b) | have the name of the company and of the foreign country in which the company is incorporated, as well as the registration number referred to in section 322(4), mentioned in legible characters in all bill-heads and letter heads and in all notices, advertisements and other official publications of the company, and for the purposes of this subsection the provisions of section 50 shall mutatis mutandis apply. |
| 2) | An external company shall not issue or send to any person in the Republic any trade catalogue, trade circular or business letter bearing the company's name unless the names of its directors, their nationality if not South African, the names of its local managers and its local secretary are stated therein. |