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PART III REGISTERED AGENT; SERVICE OF PROCESS Registered 14. (1) A limited liability company subject to this Ordinance agent for shall at all times have a registered agent in St. Christopher service of and Nevis. A limited liability company which fails to process maintain a registered agent in St.Christopher and Nevis shall be in contravention of this Ordinance. (2) Service of process on a registered mail addressed to the registered agent or any other manner provided by law for the service of summons as if the registered agent or in any other manner provided by law for the service of summons as if the registered agent were the defendant. (3) Any registered agent of a limited liability company may resign as such agent upon filing a written notice thereof, executed in duplicate, with the Registrar of Companies, who shall cause a copy thereof to be sent by registered mail to the limited liability company at the address of the office of the company or, if none, at the last known address of a person at.whose request the limited liability company was formed. No designation of a new registered agent shall be accepted for filing unless all charges owing to the former agent shall have been paid. (4) A designation of a registered agent under this section may be made, revoked, or changed by filing an appropriate notification with the Registrar of Companies. (5) The designation of a registered agent shall terminate upon the expiration of thirty days written notice of resignation directed to the limited liability company and the filing of a copy of said notice of resignation with the Registrar of Companies; or sooner if a successor agent is designated. (6) A registered agent, when served process, notice or demand for the limited liability company which he represents, shall transmit the same to the limited liability company by personal notification or in the following manner: Upon receipt of the process, notice or demand, the registered agent shall cause a copy of such paper to be mailed to the limited liability company named therein at its last know address. Such mailing shall be by registered mail. As soon thereafter as possible if process was issued in Nevis, the registered agent may file with the clerk of the court issuing the process either the receipt of such registered mailing or an affidavit stating that such mailing has been made, signed by the registered agent, or if the agent is a corporation, by a properly designated member or manager of the same, properly notarized. Compliance with the provisions of this section shall relieve the registered agent from any further obligation to the limited liability company for service of the process, notice or demand, but the agent's failure to comply with the provisions of this section shall in no way affect the validity of the process, notice or demand. (7) Only a barrister or solicitor admitted to practice in St. Christopher and Nevis or a corporation having a paid-in capital of at least $500,000.00 may act as registered agent. (8) No barrister or solicitor or corporation shall act as registered agent unless first licensed by the Minister. The original application for licensing shall be in the prescribed form and accompanied by the prescribed fee and there shall be an annual fee payable in January of each year. (9) The Minister shall prescribe fees for the licensing of registered agents under this Ordinance. Registrar of 15. (1) Whenever a limited liability company subject to this Companies or Ordinance fails to maintain an authorized agent in Nevis, or his appointee whenever said registered agent cannot with reasonable as agent for diligence be found at his business address, then the process Registrar of Companies or his appointee shall be an agent of such limited liability company upon whom any process or notice or demand required or permitted by law to be served may be served. (2) Service on the Registrar of Companies or his appointee as agent of a limited liability company shall be made by personally delivering to and leaving with him or his deputy or with any person authorized by the Registrar of Companies to receive such service, at the.office of the Registrar of Companies, duplicate copies of such process together with the statutory fee. The Registrar of Companies or his appointee shall promptly send one of such copies by registered mail, return receipt requested, to such limited liability company at the business address of its registered agent, or if there is no such office, then the Registrar of Companies or his appointee shall mail such copy in care of any member or manager named in the articles of organization at his address stated therein or at the address of the limited liability company without Nevis, or if none, at the last known address of a person at whose request the limited liability company was formed or in any other manner permitted by law. Records and 16. The Registrar of Companies shall keep a record of each certificates of process served upon the Registrar of Companies or his appointee registrar of under this part, including the date of service. He shall, upon companies request made within five years of such service, issue a certificate under its seal certifying as to the receipt of the process by an authorized person, the date and place of such service, and the receipt of the statutory fee. Validity of 17. Nothing contained in this Part shall affect the validity of other service service of process on a limited liability company effected in any other manner permitted by law.
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