10. Transfer of Shares
10.1 General
10.1.1 Subject to this Constitution, a Member may transfer all or any of his or her Shares by instrument in writing in any usual or common form or in any other form that the Directors approve.
10.1.2 An instrument of transfer referred to in clause 10.1.1 shall be executed by or on behalf of both the transferor and the transferee.
10.1.3 A transferor of Shares remains the holder of the Shares transferred until the transfer is registered and the name of the transferee is entered in the register of Members in respect of the Shares.
10.2 Mechanism for Transfers
The instrument of transfer must be left for registration at the registered office of the Company, together with such fee (if any) not exceeding the prescribed amount pursuant to the Act as the Directors require, accompanied by the certificate of the Shares to which it relates and such other information as the Directors properly require to show the right of the transferor to make the transfer, and thereupon the Company will, subject to any powers vested in the Directors by this Constitution, register the transferee as a Member.
10.3 Directors' Discretion
The Directors may refuse to register a transfer of Shares, without being bound to assign any reason for such refusal and may also decline to register any transfer of Shares on which the Company has a lien or any transfer which is not accompanied by the certificate for the Shares to which the transfer relates.
10.4 Suspension of Registration of Transfers
The registration of transfers may be suspended at such times and for such periods as the Directors from time to time determine not exceeding in the whole 30 days in any year.
10.5 Notice of Refusal to Register Transfer
If the Company refuses to register a transfer of Shares it shall within 2 months after the date on which the transfer was lodged send the transferee a notice of the refusal.
10.6 Instruments of Transfer
All instruments of transfer which are registered by the Company shall be retained by the Company, but any instrument of transfer which the Directors have refused to register shall, except in the case of fraud, be returned to the person who deposited it with the Company.
