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Article (362)

Without prejudice to any severer penalty provided for in the Penalties Code or in any other law, a fine not exceeding five thousands Bahraini Dinars shall be imposed on:

a— Any person who has issued shares, subscription receipts, interim certificates or bonds or has offered them for trading in contravention of the provisions of this law.
b— Any person who has been appointed member of the board of directors or managing director of a joint stock company and has remained in office or has been appointed controller therein, and any person who has held an office in it and who has obtained a guarantee or a loan therefrom in contravention of the provisions of this law.
c— Any person who has established a company contrary to the provisions of this law governing the percentage requirements for the Bahraini capital.
d— Any manager, board member, auditor or liquidator who has willfully ignored essential facts in the balance sheet or in the profit and loss account that affects the company's financial position.
e— Any person who has willfully ignored to call the general assembly or the partners to convene if the company has sustained losses to the extent provided for in this law or in the company's memorandum of association with his knowledge of such loss.
f— Any person who has refrained from inviting the general assembly to convene or from listing matters on its agenda in the cases in which the law requires the general assembly to convene or the said issues to be included in the agenda.
g— Any board member who has prepared a report or a balance sheet or an account contrary to the decision referred to in article (195) and any auditor who has prepared a report contrary to the data referred to in article (219) of this law.
h— Any board member, manager, or employee of any of the companies subject to the provisions of this law who has issued orders for spending or has spent an amount of the company's funds without supporting documents indicating the reasons of spending and the receiving party.
i— Any person assigned by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry or the court to inspect the company who has ignored essential facts that affect the results of inspection.
j— Any person who has willfully refrained from enabling the partners, the auditors or the staff of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry delegated by the Minister of Commerce and Industry or those who have the powers to undertake inspection to have access to the books and documents which they are permitted to have access thereto in accordance with the provisions of this law.
k— Any person who has willfully refrained from enforcing any order provided for in this law.