355. 356. 3 57. 358. 359. 360. 361. Rules of Procedure, etc. Forms and tables and application of Eighth Schedule and licences. Additional fees in respect of late submissions of documents or notices. Inspection and copies of documents in Registrar’s office and production of documents in evidence. Additional copies of returns or documents. Rules of procedure. Regulations. Alteration of fees, tables and forms. Acts or Omissions of State Officers 362. Exemption from liability for acts or omissions of State officers. SCHEDULES FIRST SCHEDULE: Regulations and Memorandum. SECOND SCHEDULE: Repealed Laws. THIRD SCHEDULE: Form of Statement in Lieu of Prospectus to be Delivered to Registrar by Private Company on Ceasing to be Private Company and Reports to be Set Out Therein. FOURTH SCHEDULE: Matters to be Specified in Prospectus and Reports to be Set Out Therein. FIFTH SCHEDULE: Form of Statement in Lieu of Prospectus to be Delivered to Registrar by a Company Which Does Not Issue Prospectus or Which Does Not Go to Allotment on a Prospectus Issued, and Reports to be Set Out Therein. SIXTH SCHEDULE: Form of Annual Return of Company. SEVENTH SCHEDULE: Fees. EIGHT SCHEDULE: Penalties for Late Submissions of Documents or Notices. AN ACT to consolidate and amend the laws in force in Zimbabwe relating to the constitution, i ncorporation, registration, management, administration and winding up of companies and other ass ociations, and for other purposes incidental thereto. [Date of commencement: 1st April, 1952.] PART I P RELIMINARY 1 2 Short title This Act may be cited as the Companies Act [Chapter 24:03]. Interpretation In this Act— “accounts” includes a company’s group accounts, whether prepared in the form of accounts or not; “articles” means the articles of association of a company as originally framed, or as altered by special resolution, and includes, so far as they apply to a company, the regulations set out in Table A in the First Schedule to the Companies Ordinance, 1895, or Table A in the First Schedule; “body corporate” has the meaning given to it by subsection (2 ) of section six; “books or papers” and “books and papers” include accounts, deeds, writings and other documents; “certified”, in relation to a copy or translation of any document, means certified in the prescribed manner to be a true copy or a correct translation; “company” means a company limited by shares or a company limited by guarantee as in section seven described, or an existing company; “contributory” has the meaning given to it by section two hundred and two; “co-operative company” has the meaning given it by section thirty-six; “court”, in relation to any company, means the High Court, and in relation to any offence against this Act, includes a magistrates court having jurisdiction in respect of that offence; “creditors’ voluntary winding up” has the meaning given to it by subsection (2) of section two hundred and forty-six; “debenture” includes debenture stock or bonds; “default fine” has the meaning given to it by subsection (1) of section three hundred and forty ; “director” includes any person occupying the position of director or alternate director of a company, by whatever name he may be called; “equity share capital” has the meaning given to it by subsection (6) of section one hundred and forty-three; “existing company” has the meaning given to it by subsection (1) of section four;