Except when the register of members is closed under the provisions of this Act, the register and the index of members’ names shall F1 . . . be open to the inspection of any member of the company without charge, and of any other person on payment of F2such fee as may be prescribed.

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Any member of the company or other person may require a copy of the register, or of any part of it, on payment of F4such fee as may be prescribed; and the company shall cause any copy so required by a person to be sent to him within 10 days beginning with the day next following that on which the requirement is received by the company.

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If an inspection required under this section is refused, or if a copy so required is not sent within the proper period, the company and every officer of it who is in default is liable in respect of each offence to a fine.

In the case of such refusal or default, the court may by order compel an immediate inspection of the register and index, or direct that the copies required be sent to the persons requiring them.