Companies Act 2014
Share certificates
99. (1) A certificate under the common seal of the company specifying any shares held by any member shall be prima facie evidence of the title of the member to the shares.
(2) A company shall, within 2 months after the date—
(a) of allotment of any of its shares or debentures; or
(b) on which a transfer of any such shares or debentures is lodged with the company,
complete and have ready for delivery the certificates of all shares and debentures allotted or, as the case may be, transferred, unless the conditions of issue of the shares or debentures otherwise provide.
(3) In subsection (2) “transfer” means a transfer that is (where appropriate) duly stamped and is otherwise valid and does not include such a transfer as the company is, for any reason, entitled to refuse to register and does not register.
(4) If any company on which a notice has been served requiring the company to make good any default in complying with the provisions of subsection (2), fails to make good the default within 10 days after the date of service of the notice, the person entitled to have the certificates or the debentures delivered to him or her may apply to the court for, and the court on such an application may grant, the following order.
(5) That order is one directing the company and any officer of the company specified in the order to make good the default within such time as may be specified in the order, and any such order may provide that all costs of and incidental to the application shall be borne by the company or by any officer of it responsible for the default.
(6) If a share certificate is defaced, lost or destroyed, it may be renewed on payment of €10.00 or such lesser sum and on such terms (if any) as to evidence and indemnity and the payment of out-of-pocket expenses of the company of investigating evidence as the directors of the company think fit.
(7) If a member of a company so requests, the member shall be entitled to receive from the company one or more certificates for one or more shares held by the member upon payment, in respect of each certificate, of €10.00 or such lesser sum as the directors of the company think fit.
(8) In respect of a share or shares in a company held jointly by several persons—
(a) the company shall not be bound to issue more than one certificate; and
(b) delivery by the company of a certificate for a share to one of several joint holders shall be sufficient delivery to all such holders.
(9) If a company contravenes subsection (2), the company and any officer of it who is in default shall be guilty of a category 4 offence.
Annotations
Modifications (not altering text):
C16
Application of subs. (2) restricted (29.01.2020) by Migration of Participating Securities Act 2019 (50/2019), s. 11(3)(b), (4), S.I. No. 26 of 2020.
Migration of relevant participating securities
11. (1) Subsection (2) shall apply if each of the following—
(a) a statement referred to in subsection (1) of section 10, and
(b) a copy of such a statement as is referred to in subsection (3) of that section,
has, in accordance with subsections (1) and (2) or, as the case may be, subsection (3) of that section, been furnished to the Registrar of Companies or the Listing Authority, as appropriate, by a participating issuer.
(2) Where this subsection applies, the migration of the relevant participating securities in the participating issuer shall, by virtue of this subsection, take effect on and from the live date.
(3) Without prejudice to the generality of section 3 (2)— ...
(b) notwithstanding section 99(2) of the Act of 2014, the participating issuer is not required to issue share certificates to the nominated central securities depository (or, as the case may be, to the foregoing body nominated by that depository) on the migration taking effect under subsection (2) on the live date and title of the nominated central securities depository (or, as the case may be, of the foregoing body nominated by that depository) to the relevant participating securities shall be evidenced by the recording of the name and address of that depository or body, as appropriate, in the register of members of the participating issuer, and subsection (4) supplements this paragraph.
(4) Paragraph (b) of subsection (3) operates to disapply section 99(2) of the Act of 2014, with respect to the matters referred to in that paragraph, both on the live date concerned and at all times thereafter.
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