(1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), each share in a company shall be distinguished by its appropriate number.
(2) If at any time, all the issued shares in a company or all the issued shares in it of a particular class are fully paid up and rank pari passu for all purposes, none of those shares need thereafter have a distinguishing number, so long as it -
(a) remains fully paid up; and
(b) ranks pari passu for all purposes with all shares of the same class for the time being issued and fully paid up.
(3) Where new shares are issued by a company on the terms that, within a period not exceeding 12 months, they will rank pari passu for all purposes with all the existing shares, or with all the existing shares of a particular class in the company, neither the new shares nor the corresponding existing shares need have distinguishing numbers so long as all of them are fully paid up and rank pari passu.
(4) However, in the circumstances mentioned in subsection (3), the share certificates o
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