Companies Act coming on July 3rd

PLACE   VENUE   DATE
Francistown  Thapama Hotel   27/06/2007
Gantsi   Gantsi Community Hall  27/06/2007 
Selebi Phikwe   Bosele Hotel   28/06/2007
Tsabong  Mokha Lodge   28/06/2007

Seminars for other areas will be announced in due course.
The statement further says the new Act introduces, amongst other things, simplified procedure for company incorporation, provision for one-person Companies, abolishes the need to register a Memorandum and Articles of Association and replaces it with the company's constitution, abolishes the need to lodge a constitution when applying for registration except where the constitution is required by another Act. The new Companies Act also provides for a close Company.
Copies of the new Companies Act and its Regulations will be available for sale at the Government Printer bookshops at Gaborone, Serowe, Francistown and Maun, says the statement.
The document can also be down loaded from the Ministry of Trade and Industry website www.mti.gov.bw