Commentary Part 21: Certification and Transfer of Securities Chapter 1: Certification and Transfer of Securities: General Section 780: Duty of company as to issue of certificates on surrender of share warrant
1098.This provision is new and makes it clear that a company must issue a share certificate where a share warrant is subsequently surrendered for cancellation. It gives a company two months from the date of surrender to complete and have ready for delivery a certificate of the shares specified in the warrant and failure to do so is a criminal offence (see subsection (3)). This requirement is subject to any contrary provisions in the company’s articles, which may give the company more or less time to deliver such certificates to the transferee (see subsection (2)).