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Saturday, 2 May 2020

How to Write a standard Memorandum and Article of Association?


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In many countries the legal requirement to register a company it suppose to have a memorandum and Article of Association. Today we have bring to you a sample memorandum and article of association based in Tanzania law, we use non exciting company TTT Ltd as example for illustration. In this sample you can modified for better use. Current in Tanzania in order to register company it is  online through Business Registration and Licensing Agency.
THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP 212 R.E 2002
COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE AND NOT HAVING A SHARE CAPITAL

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION OF TTT  LTD
{Company Logo}
Incorporated this ………………. Day of  ………………. 2020
Drawn by:
TTT. Ltd,
Tegeta street, Bagamoyo Road,
P.O. Box ……
Dar es Salaam

THE COMPANIES ACT, CAP 212 R.E OF 2002
COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE 
AND NOT HAVING A SHARE CAPITAL 
MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION OF TTT LIMITED

  1. The name of the Company is TTT LIMITED
  2. The registered office of the Company will be situated in the United Republic of Tanzania or elsewhere in the world.
  3. The objects for which the Company is formed are:-
i) Manufacturing Food products
·       Processing and preserving of meat
·       Processing and preserving of fish, crustaceans and molluscs
·       Processing and preserving of fruit and vegetables
·       Manufacture of vegetable and animal oils and fats
·       Manufacture of dairy products
·       Manufacture of grain mill products, starches and starch products
·       Manufacture of grain mill products
·       Manufacture of starches and starch products
·       Manufacture of other food products
·       Manufacture of bakery products
·       Manufacture of sugar
·       Manufacture of cocoa, chocolate and sugar confectionery
·       Manufacture of macaroni, noodles, couscous and similar farinaceous products
·       Manufacture of prepared meals and dishes and Manufacture of other food product

ii)      To do all or any of the things or matters aforesaid in any part of the world and either as principals, agents, contractors, trustees or otherwise and by or through trustees, agents or otherwise and either alone or in conjunction with others.
iii)    To do all such other things which are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the above objects
4.     The liability of the members is limited
5.     Guarantee, Every member of the company undertakes to contribute to the assets of the company in the event of its being wound up while he is a member, or within one year afterwards, for payment of the debts and liabilities of the company contracted before he ceases to be a member, and the costs, charges and expenses of winding up, and for the adjustment of the rights of the contributories among themselves, such amount as may be required not exceeding one million shillings.
WE, the several persons whose names and addresses are subscribed, are desirous of being formed into a company, in pursuance of this memorandum of association.
Names, Addresses, and Description of Subscribers
Signature
JUMAKAN SUSH
P.O.BOX ......
TANZANIA

BAKROMIT KTROSH 
P.O.BOX .....
TANZANIA


Dated at  ……………………...this …………………day of …………………… 2020
WITNESS to the above Signatures:-
Signature         : ……………………………………………………...
Name: ………………………………………………………………..
Postal Address : ………………………………………………………..
Qualification: ………………………………….………………………
THE COMPANIES ACT (CAP  212 R.E OF 2002)
PRIVATE COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE AND NOT HAVING A SHARE CAPITAL
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION TO A COMPANY PRECEDING
Interpretation
1.     In these articles:-
"The Act" means the Companies Act Cap 212 R.E 2002;
"The articles" means the articles of the company;
"Clear days" in relation to the period of a notice means that period excluding the day when the notice is given or deemed to be given and the day for which it is given or on which it is to take effect;
"The seal" the seal of the Company dully authorised by the Board of Directors, which delegated to General Director.
"Secretary" shall mean any person appointed to perform the duties of Secretary of the Company;
Expressions referring to writing shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as including references to printing, lithography, photograph, and other modes of representing or reproducing words in a visible form.
Unless the context otherwise requires, words or expressions contained in these articles shall bear the same meaning as in the Act  or any statutory modification thereof in force at the date at which these articles become binding on the Company.
Members
2.     The number of members with which the company proposes to be registered not exceed five, but the directors may from time to time register an increase of members. Currently two members
Names, Addresses, and Description of Subscribers
Signature
JUMAKAN SUSH
P.O.BOX ......
TANZANIA

BAKROMIT KTROSH 
P.O.BOX .....
TANZANIA


3.     The subscribers to the memorandum of association and such other persons as the directors shall admit to membership shall be members of the company.
General Meetings
4.     The first general meeting shall be held at such time, not being less than one month nor more than three months after the incorporation of the company, and at such place, as the directors may determine.
5.     A general meeting shall be held once in every calendar year at such time (not being more than fifteen months after the holding of the last preceding general meeting) and place as may be prescribed by the company in general meeting or, in default at such time in the third month following that in which the anniversary of the company's incorporation occurs, and at such place as the directors shall appoint. In default of a general meeting being so held, a general meeting shall be held in the month next following, and may be convened by any two members in the same manner as nearly as possible as that in which meetings are to be convened by the directors.
6.     The general meetings referred to in regulation 5 shall be called ordinary general meetings and all other general meetings shall be called extraordinary general meetings.
7.     The Managing director may, whenever think fit, convene an extraordinary general meeting and extraordinary general meetings shall also be convened on such requisition in default, may be convened by such requisitionists, as provided by section 11 of the Act. If at any time there are not within Tanzania sufficient directors capable of acting to form a quorum, Managing director with any two members of the company may convene an extraordinary general meeting in the same manner as nearly as possible as that in which meetings may be convened by the directors.
Notice of General Meetings
8.     Subject to the provisions of section 117(2) of the Act relating to special resolutions, seven days' notice at the least (exclusive of the day on which the notice is served or deemed to be served, but inclusive of the day for which notice is given) specifying the place, the day and the hour of meeting and, in case of special business, the general nature of that business shall be given in manner hereinafter mentioned, or in such other manner, if any, as may be prescribed by the company in general meeting, to such persons as are, under the regulations of the company, entitled to receive such notices from the company; but with the consent of all the members entitled to receive notice of some particular meeting, that meeting may be convened by such shorter notice and in such manner as those members may think fit.
9.     The accidental omission to give notice of a meeting to, or the non-receipt of notice of a meeting by, any member shall not invalidate the proceedings at any meeting.
Proceedings at General Meetings
10.  All business shall be deemed special that is transacted at an extraordinary meeting, and all that is transacted at an ordinary meeting, with the exception of the consideration of the accounts, balance sheets and the ordinary report of the directors and auditors, the election of directors and other officers in the place of those retiring by rotation, and the fixing of the remuneration of the auditors.
11.  No business shall be transacted at any general meeting unless a quorum of members and managing director is present at the time when the meeting proceeds to business; save as herein otherwise provided, three members personally present shall be a quorum.
12.  If within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting a quorum is not present, the meeting, if convened upon the requisition of members, shall be dissolved; in any other case it shall stand adjourned to the same day in the next week, at the same time and place, and if at the adjourned meeting a quorum is not present within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting the members present shall be a quorum.
13.  The chairman or Managing Director, if any, of the board of directors shall preside as chairman at every general meeting of the company.
14.  If there is no such chairman or managing Director, or if at any meeting he is not present within fifteen minutes after the time appointed for holding the meeting No business shall be conducted.
15.  The chairman may, with the consent of any meeting at which a quorum is present (and shall if so directed by the meeting), adjourn the meeting from time to time and from place to place, but no business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than the business left unfinished at the meeting from which the adjournment took place. When a meeting is adjourned for ten days or more, notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given as in the case of an original meeting. Save as aforesaid it shall not be necessary to give any notice of an adjournment or of the business to be transacted at an adjourned meeting.
16.  At any general meeting a resolution put to the vote of the meeting shall be decided on a show of hands, unless a poll is (before or on the declaration of the result of the show of hands) demanded by at least two members present in person or by proxy entitled to vote and unless a poll is so demanded, a declaration by the chairman that a resolution has, on a show of hands, been carried, or carried unanimously, or by a particular majority, or lost, and an entry to that effect in the book of the proceedings of the company, shall be conclusive evidence of the fact, without proof of the number or proportion of the votes recorded in favour of, or against, that resolution.
17.  If a poll is duly demanded it shall be taken in such manner as the chairman directs, and the result of the poll shall be deemed to be the resolution of the meeting at which the poll was demanded.
18.  In the case of an equality of votes, whether on a show of hands or on a poll, the chairman of the meeting at which the show of hands takes place or at which the poll is demanded, shall be entitled to a second or casting vote.
19.  A poll demanded on the election of a chairman, or on a question of adjournment, shall be taken forthwith. A poll demanded on any other question shall be taken at such time as the chairman of the meeting directs.
Votes of Members
20.  Every member shall have one vote.
21.  A member of unsound mind, or in respect of whom an order has been made, by any court having jurisdiction in lunacy, may vote, whether on a show of hands or on a poll, by his committee, or other legal guardian appointed, and any such committee, or other legal guardian or other person may, on a poll, vote by proxy.
22.  No member shall be entitled to vote at any general meeting unless all moneys presently payable by him to the company have been paid.
23.  On a poll, votes may be given e ither personally or by proxy: Provided that no company shall vote by proxy as long as a resolution of its directors in accordance with the provisions of section 116 of the Act is in force.
24.  The instrument appointing a proxy shall be in writing under the hand of the appointer or of his attorney duly authorised in writing or, if the appointer is a corporation either under the seal, or under the hand of an officer or attorney so authorised. A proxy need not be a member of the company.
25.  The instrument appointing a proxy and the power of attorney or other authority, if any, under which it is signed or a notarially certified copy of that power or authority shall be deposited at the registered office of the company not less than seventy-two hours before the time for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the person named in the instrument proposes to vote, and in default the instrument of proxy shall not be treated as valid.
26.  An instrument appointing a proxy may be in the following form, or any other form which the directors shall approve– "......................... Company, Limited. I, .................................., of .........................................., in the District of ......................................., being a member of the ..................................... Company, Limited, hereby appoint ......................................., of ....................................., as my proxy to vote for me and on my behalf at the (ordinary or extraordinary, as the case may be) general meeting of the company to be held on the ................... day of ................., 20........ Signed this ....................... day of ....................., 20........ and at any adjournment thereof.
27.  The instrument appointing a proxy shall be deemed to confer authority to demand or join in demanding a poll.
Corporations Acting by Representatives at Meetings
28.  Any corporation which is a member of the company may by resolution of its directors or other governing body authorise such person as it thinks fit to act as its representative at any meeting of the company and the person so authorised shall be entitled to exercise the same powers on behalf of the corporation which he represents as that corporation could exercise if it were an individual member of the company.
Directors
29.  The biggest shareholder shall be a chairperson of board of Director of she/he may appointed anyone among the director to be chairperson of board
30.  We shall have  Director General who is in charge of all company Activities assisted by other directors
31.  The number of directors and the names of the first directors shall be determined in writing by a majority of the subscribers to the memorandum.
32.  The remuneration of the directors shall from time to time be determined by the company in general meeting.
Powers and Duties of Directors
33.  The business of the company shall be managed by the directors, who may pay all expenses incurred in getting up and registering the company, and may exercise all such powers of the company as are not, by the Act or by these articles, required to be exercised by the company in general meeting, subject nevertheless to any regulation of these articles, to the provisions of the Act, and to such regulations being not inconsistent with the aforesaid regulations or provisions, as may be prescribed by the company in general meeting; but no regulation made by the company in general meeting shall invalidate any prior act of the directors which would have been valid if that regulation had not been made.
34.  The directors shall cause minutes to be made in books provided for the purpose–
(a)  of all appointments of officers made by the directors;
(b)  of the names of the directors present at each meeting of the directors and of
any committee of the directors;
      (c) of all resolutions and proceedings at all meetings of the company, and of the
directors, and of committees of directors, and every director present at any meeting of directors or committee of directors shall sign his name in a book to be kept for that purpose.
The Seal
35.  The seal of the company shall not be affixed to any instrument except by the authority of a resolution of the board of directors, and in the presence of a Director General and of the secretary or such other person as the directors may appoint for that purpose; and that  Director General or other person as aforesaid shall sign every instrument to which the seal of the company is so affixed in their presence.
Disqualifications of Directors
36.  (1)The office of director shall be vacated, if the director–
(a)  without the consent of the company in general meeting holds any other office of profit under the company; or
(b)  becomes bankrupt; or
(c)  becomes prohibited from being a director by reason of any order made under section 213 or 269 of the Act;
(d)  is found lunatic or becomes of unsound mind; or
(e)  resigns his office by notice in writing to the company;
(f)  is directly or indirectly interested in any contract with the company and fails to
declare the nature of his interest in manner required by section 150 of the Act;
(g)  is punished with imprisonment for a term exceeding six months without the
option of a fine.
(2) A director shall not vote in respect of any contract in which he is interested or any matter arising there out, and if he does so vote his vote shall not be counted.
Rotation of Directors
37.  At the first ordinary general meeting of the company the whole of the directors shall retire from office.
38.  The Managing Director shall be appointed by majority shareholder after every 5 years and eligible for re-election.
39.  A retiring director shall be eligible for re-election.
40.  The company at the general meeting at which a director retires in the manner aforesaid may fill up the vacated office by electing a person thereto and in default the retiring director shall be deemed to have been re-elected unless at such meeting it is resolved not to fill up such vacated office.
41.  The company may from time to time in general meeting increase or reduce the number of directors, and may also determine in what rotation the increased or reduced number is to go out of office.
42.  Any casual vacancy occurring in the board of directors may be filled up by the directors but the person so chosen shall be subject to retirement at the same time as if he had become a director on the day on which the director in whose place he is appointed was last elected a director.
43.  The directors shall have power at any time, and from time to time, to appoint a person as an additional director who shall retire from office at the next following ordinary general meeting, but shall be eligible for election by the company at that meeting as an additional director.
44.  The company may by extraordinary resolution remove any director before the expiration of his period of office, and may by an ordinary resolution appoint another person in his stead. The person so appointed shall be subject to retirement at the same time as if he had become a director on the day on which the director in whose place he is appointed was last elected a director.
Proceedings of Directors
45.  The directors may meet together for the dispatch of business, adjourn and otherwise regulate their meetings, as they think fit. Questions arising at any meeting shall be decided by a majority of votes. In case of an equality of votes the chairman shall have a second or casting vote. A director may, and the secretary on the requisition of a director shall, at any time summon a meeting of the directors.
46.  The quorum necessary for the transaction of the business of the directors may be fixed by the directors, and unless so fixed shall, when the number of directors exceeds three, be three and shall, when the number of directors does not exceed three, be two.
47.  The continuing directors may act notwithstanding any vacancy in their body but, if and so long as their number is reduced below the number fixed by or pursuant to the regulations of the company as the necessary quorum of directors, the continuing directors may act for the purpose of increasing the number of directors to that number, or of summoning a general meeting of the company, but for no other purpose.
48.  The directors may delegate any of their powers to committees consisting of such member or members of their body as they think fit; any committee so formed shall, in the exercise of the powers so delegated, conform to any regulations that may be imposed on them by the directors.
49.  All acts done by any meeting of the directors or of a committee of directors, or by any person acting as a director shall, notwithstanding that it is afterwards discovered that there was some defect in the appointment of any such directors or person acting as aforesaid, or that they or any of them were disqualified, be as valid as if every such person had been duly appointed and was qualified to be a director.
Accounts
50.  The Managing directors shall cause proper books of account to be kept with respect to–
(a)  all sums of money received and expended by the company and the matters in
respect of which the receipt and expenditure takes place;
(b)  all sales and purchases of goods by the company; and
(c)  the assets and liabilities of the company.
51.  The books of account shall be kept at the registered office of the company, or at such other place or places as the directors think fit, and shall always be open to the inspection of directors.
52.  The directors shall from time to time determine whether and to what extent and at what times and places and under what conditions or regulations the accounts and books of the company or any of them shall be open to the inspection of members not being directors and no member (not being a director) shall have any right of inspecting any account or book or document of the company except as conferred by statute or authorised by the directors or by the company in general meeting.
53.  The directors shall from time to time in accordance with section 123 of the Act, cause to be prepared and to be laid before the company in general meeting such profit and loss accounts, balance sheets and reports as are referred to in that section.
54.  The profit and loss account shall show, arranged under the most convenient heads, the amount of gross income, distinguishing the several sources from which it has been derived, and the amount of gross expenditure, distinguishing the expenses of the establishment, salaries and other like matters. Every item of expenditure fairly chargeable against the year's income shall be brought into account, so that a just balance of profit and loss may be laid before the meeting and, in cases where any item of expenditure which may in fairness be distributed over several years has been incurred in any one year, the whole amount of such item shall be stated, with the addition of the reasons why only a portion of such expenditure is charged against the income of the year.
55.  A copy of every balance sheet (including every document required by law to be annexed thereto) which is to be laid before the company in general meeting together with a copy of the auditor's report shall, not less than seven days before the date of the meeting, be sent to all persons entitled to receive notices of general meetings of the company.
Audit
56.  Auditors shall be appointed and their duties regulated in accordance with sections 132, 133 and 134 of the Act.
Notices
57.  (1) A notice may be given by the company to any member either personally or by sending it by post to him to his registered address, or (if he has no registered address within Tanzania) to the address, if any, within Tanzania supplied by him to the company for the giving of notices to him.
(2) Where a notice is sent by post, service of the notice shall be deemed to be effected by properly addressing, prepaying and posting a letter containing the notice and unless the contrary is proved, to have been effected at the time at which the letter would be delivered in the ordinary course of post.
58.  If a member has no registered address within Tanzania and has not supplied to the company an address within Tanzania for the giving of notices to him, a notice addressed to him and advertised in a newspaper circulating in the neighbourhood of the registered office of the company, shall be deemed to be duly given to him on the day on which the advertisement appears.
59.  Notice of every general meeting shall be given in some manner hereinbefore authorised to every member except those members who (having no registered address within Tanzania) have not supplied to the company an address within Tanzania for the giving of notices to them. No other person shall be entitled to receive notices of general meetings. member shall be entitled to receive any notice from the Company
Winding Up
60.  With the sanction of a Special Resolution of the Shareholders, any part of the assets of the Company including any shares in other companies may be divided between the member of the Company or may be vested in Trustees for the benefit of such members and the liquidation of the Company may be closed and the Company dissolved but so that all member shall be compelled to accept any shares whereupon there is any liability.
Indemnity
61.  Every Director, Managing Director ,Agent, Auditor, Secretary and other officer for the time being of the Company shall be indemnified out of the assets of the Company against any liability incurred by him to defending any proceedings, whether civil or criminal, in which judgments is given in his favour or in which he is acquitted or in connection with any application in which relief is granted to him by the Court
Alteration or Additions
62.  subject to the provision of the Act and to those contained in the Memorandum of Association of the Company may by special resolution make alteration or addition so made shall be as valid and effectual as if originally contained in those Articles and be subject in like manner to alteration by special resolution.
Arbitration
63.  If and whenever any dispute or difference shall arise between the Company and any of the members or their respective representative touching upon the construction or meaning of any of the Articles herein contained or any act matter or thing made or done or omitted to be done or with regard to the rights or liabilities arising there under or arising out of the relation existing between the parties by reason of these Articles or the Act, such differences shall (unless a sole arbitrator be agreed upon) forthwith be referred to the arbitration of three (3) arbitrators, one to be appointed by each party and the third to be appointed by the first two or, in the event of failure to agree within thirty(30) days the procedure laid down in the Arbitration Act ,Cap.15 R.E 2002 or any then existing statutory modifications or re-enactments thereof shall apply.
1.  JUMAKAN SUSH  (Director General)               Signature     …………………..
2. BAKROMIT KATROSH (Director of Finance)          Signature     …………………..
3.NATALIA FUKRUDESH (Company Secretary)           Signature     …………………..

Dated at ………………………...this …………………day of …………………… 2020

WITNESS to the above Signatures:-
Signature……………………………………
Name …………………………………………………………..
Postal Address  …………………………………………………………..
Qualification:   …………………………………….…………………………

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