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that financial year; or
        (b) if no annual general meeting of the company is held in relation to that financial year within the period within which section 240 requires it to be so held—the end of the last-mentioned period,
     lodge with the Commission an annual return of the company in the prescribed form, containing a list of members and such other particulars as are prescribed and accompanied by the prescribed documents.
    "(1a) The Commission may serve on a company a partly completed annual return of the company that is in the prescribed form and in which the Commission has set out particulars on the basis of information previously received by the Commission.
    "(1b) Where the Commission, under sub-section (1a), serves on a company a partly completed annual return of the company in which the Commission has set out particulars (in this sub-section referred to as the 'relevant particulars'), the company may—
        (a) delete such (if any) of the relevant particulars as are incorrect and insert in the return as required the correct particulars of the matters to which the deleted particulars related; and
        (b) complete and lodge the return in accordance with this Division,
    and, if the company lodges the return with the Commission, the company shall be deemed, except for the purposes of sub-section (1a) and this sub-section, to have set out in the return such (if any) of the relevant particulars as the company has not deleted."; and

    (b) by adding at the end the following sub-sections:
    "(4) Sub-sections (1), (1a) and (1b) of this section, as in force after the commencement of section 5 of the Companies Amendment Act 1985, apply in relation to a company in relation to a financial year of the company that ends at or after that commencement.
    "(5) Notwithstanding the amendments made by sections 5 and 7 of the Companies Amendment Act 1985 and the repeal effected by section 6 of that Act, this Division, as in force immediately before the commencement of sections 5,6 and 7 of that Act, continues to apply in relation to a company in relation to a financial year of the company that ended before that commencement, and the forms that were, immediately before that commencement, the forms prescribed for the purposes of sub-section (1) of this section shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to be the forms prescribed for the purposes of that sub-section as it applies by virtue of this sub-section.".

Repeal of section 264
6. Section 264 of the Principal Act is repealed.

Exemption of certain companies
7. Section 265 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (1) "if there is included in the annual return a certificate