The Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 50:

"50A.

Without prejudice to section 24(4), the Registrar may request a company to provide such evidence of the situation of the company’s registered office as the Registrar requires for the purposes of -

(a) satisfying himself or herself of the matters referred to in section 21(2), or

(b) recording a change in the situation of the registered office of the company in accordance with section 50(3),

and where the Registrar has made such a request, he or she shall not register the constitution of the company under section 21 or record the change under section 50(3), as the case may be, unless such evidence is so provided.".