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18. Any person holding or interested in any colonial stock to which this Act applies, may, subject to such reasonable regulations as may be made under this Act with respect to sucii stock, inspect the register of ihat stock, kept in pursuance of this Act, at any reasonable time, upon payment of such fee, not exceeding two shillings and sixpence, as may be fixed by the regulations, and shall be entitled to obtain from the "Registrar copies or extracts certified by him, or by some officer appoiiited for the purpose, to be true copies or extracts of such register (including any conditions and regulations required by this Act to be entered therein), upon payment of such fee, not exceeding two shillings and sixpence, and twopence for every folio of seventy-two words, as the Registrar may from time to time fix. Any copy or extract purporting to be so certified shall be admissible in evidence in like manner as the register. Miscellaneous. 19. For the purposes of the Act of the session of tie twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth yearsof thereign of Her present Majesty, chapter ninety-eight, intituled " An Act to consolidate and amend the Statute Law of England relating to Indictable Offences by Forgery," colonial stock to which this Act applies shall be deemed to be capital stock of a body corporate. The Forgery Act, 1870, shall apply to a stock certificate and a coupon issued in pursuance of this Act, and to stock to which this Act applies, and any share or interest of or in such stock, in like manner as if the same were a stock certificate, coupon, or stock mentioned in that Act. 20. Colonial stock to which this Act applies shall be personal estate, and shall not be liable to any foreign attachment, by the custom of London or otherwise. 21. The Registrar may charge such fees (if any) in respect of any certificate issued under this Act, with reference to colonial stock, and in respect of any transfer thereof in the register, and otherwise in respect of any act done by the Registrar with respect to such stock, as may be fixed by the Government issuing the stock, not exceeding in any case five shillings. 22. Any discretion or power vested by this Act in the Registrar, shall be exercised subject to and in accordance with the directions of the Government of the colony issuing the stock inscribed in the register kept by such Registrar. 23. Nothing in this Act shall prevent any colonial stock inscribed in the register being transferred upon the application of the stockholder to a register in the colony or elsewhere. 24. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— The expression " colony " means any colony, plantation, island, territory, or settlement situate within Her Majesty's dominions, and not being within the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, or the Isle of Man, nor forming part of India for the purposes of the Acts for the time being in force relating to the Government of India, and for the purposes of this Act all colonies, plantations, islands, territories, and settlements under one Legislature as hereinafter defined, are deemed to be one colony : The expression "legislature" means any house or nouses of assembly, or other body of persons or person who can exercise legislative authority in a colony, and where there are local legislatures as well as a central legislature, includes both each of the local legislatures and the central legislature: The expression " colonial stock " includes any share or interest in colonial stock: The expression ""stockholder" means a person holding colonial stock, being entered as proprietor thereof in the register kept under this Act: The expression " person " includes corporation : The Act of the session of the fifth and sixth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter sixty-two, intituled " An Act to repeal an Act of the present Session of Parliament, intituled ' An Act for the more effectual Abolition of Oaths and Affirmations taken and made in various Departments of the State, and to substitute Declarations in lieu thereof, and for the more entire Suppression of voluntary and extra-judicial Oaths and Affidavits '; and to make other provisions for the Abolition of unnecessary Oaths," is in this Act referred to, and may be cited in any declaration made thereunder for the purposes of this Act, as the Statutory Declarations Act, 1835. 25. This Act may be cited as the Colonial Stock Act, 1876.

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