Section 35 of the Principal Act is amended -

(a) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (1):

"(1) A company may authorise an electronic filing agent to do the following acts on its behalf.",

and

(b) by the insertion of the following subsections after subsection (7):

"(8)

(a) The Registrar may, on application made to him or her by a person in the prescribed form, approve the person to act as an electronic filing agent for the purposes of this section, and a person so approved shall be known, and is in this Act referred to, as an ‘electronic filing agent’.

(b) Where an application under paragraph (a) is made by a trust or company service provider, the Registrar shall not grant approval under that paragraph unless the person is the holder of a relevant authorisation.

(c) The Registrar shall withdraw an approval granted under paragraph (a) where the person ceases to be the holder of a relevant authorisation.

(9)