Bengal Bonded Warehouse Association Act,1838
Act No : 5
Section : Power to refuse to register transfer by defaulting proprietor
24. Power to refuse to register transfer by defaulting proprietor. Power to sell shares to satisfy calls, and issue fresh certificates.--1* It shall be lawful for the Directors of the said Association to refuse to register the transfer of any share belonging to any proprietor who shall not have paid such instalment and interest as aforesaid; and 2* in case such instalment and interest shall not be paid within two months after notice to pay the same has been given by lawful for the said Directors to such proprietor, or to his attorney or attorneys duly authorised, it shall be lawful for the said Directors to sell by public sale the share or shares of such proprietor, to such an extent as may be sufficient to satisfy such instalment and interest, and to grant, upon such sale, a new certificate or new certificates to the purchaser of such share or shares whereupon the former certificate or certificates for such share or shares shall become void, and if there by any surplus after such instalment and interest have been satisfied, such surplus shall be paid on demand to the proprietor of such share or shares, and shall, till demand, be credited in the books of the said Association to such proprietor, but no interest shall run thereon.
---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The words "And it is hereby enacted, that" omitted by Act 12 of 1891 s. 2 and Sch. I. 2. The word "that" omitted by s. 2 and Sch. I, ibid. 7
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