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ACT 125
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COMPANIES ACT 1965 (REVISED - 1973)
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PART IV - SHARES, DEBENTURES AND CHARGES
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DIVISION 1 - PROSPECTUSES
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Section 41. As to retention of over-subscriptions in debenture issues.
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(1) A corporation shall not accept or retain subscriptions to a debenture issue in excess of the amount of the issue as disclosed in the prospectus unless the corporation has specified in the prospectus—
(a) that it expressly reserves the right to accept or retain over-subscriptions; and
(b) a limit expressed as a specific sum of money on the amount of over-subscriptions that may be accepted or retained being an amount not more than twenty-five per centum in excess of the amount of the issue as disclosed in the prospectus.
As to statement of asset-backing
(2) Subject to the Fifth Schedule where a corporation specifies in a prospectus relating to a debenture issue that it reserves the right to accept or retain over-subscriptions—
(a) the corporation shall not make, authorize or permit any statement of or reference as to the asset-backing for the issue to be made or contained in any prospectus relating to the issue, other than a statement or reference to the total tangible assets and the total liabilities of the corporations and of its guarantor corporations; and
(b) the prospectus shall contain a statement or reference as to what the total assets and total liabilities of the corporation would be if over-subscriptions to the limit specified in the prospectus were accepted or retained.
Penalty: Imprisonment for five years or one hundred thousand ringgit or both.
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