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Article 230. The Legal Validity
of Lost Share Certificate Registration
(Compare Article 230-6 of the
former Commercial Code)
1. The share certificate issuing
corporation, during the period until the earlier of the dates listed hereunder
(hereinafter in this Article called “date of registration erasure”) can not
enter or record in the shareholders registry the full name and address of the
party who acquired the shares related to the share certificate which has been
registered as lost
(1) The date of the erasure of
the said lost share certificate registration
(2) The date when one year has
elapsed since the date of the lost share certificate registration, as
calculated from the day after the registration
2. The share certificate
issuing corporation, unless it is after the date of the erasure of the
registration, can not re-issue the share certificate which has been registered
as lost.
3. When the lost share certificate
registrant is not the legal holder of the share certificate of the shares
related to the share certificate which has been registered as lost, the said
shareholder of the shares, during the period until the registration is erased,
can not vote at the general shareholders meeting or the general meeting of
holders of classes of shares
4. Shares related to the share certificate
which has been registered as lost, can not be sold by auction based on Article
197. (Auction
of Shares), Paragraph 1 or by a sale based on the provisions of the same Article,
Paragraph 2.
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