Companies Act, 1956
Sec 112 -
Certification of transfers.
(1) The certification by a company of any
instrument of transfer of shares in, or debentures of, the company, shall be
taken as a representation by the company to any person acting on the faith of
the certification that there have been produced to the company such documents
as on the face of them show a prima facie title to the shares or debentures in
the transferor named in the instrument of transfer, but not as a representation
that the transferor has any title to the shares or debentures.
(2) Where any person acts on the faith of an
erroneous certification made by a company negligently, the company shall be
under the same liability to him as if the certification had been made
fraudulently.
(3) For the purposes of this section :
(a) an instrument of transfer shall be deemed
to be certificated if it bears the words " certificate lodged " or
words to the like effect ;
(b) the certification of an instrument of
transfer shall be deemed to be made by a company, if
(i) the person issuing the certificated
instrument is a person authorized to issue such instruments of transfer on the
company's behalf ; and
(ii) the certification is signed by any
officer or servant of the company or any other person, authorized to
certificate transfers on the company's behalf, or if a body corporate has been
so authorized, by any officer or servant of that body corporate ;
(c) a certification shall be deemed to be
signed by any person, if it purports to be authenticated by his signature
unless it is shown that the signature was placed there neither by himself nor
by any person authorized to use the signature for the purpose of certificating
transfers on the company's behalf