3.3. Background and history

For this rule, the Registrar of Companies may consider the following matters in relation to the Foreign Company:

• (a) any matter affecting the propriety of the Foreign Company’s conduct, whether or not the conduct may have resulted in the commission of a criminal offence or the Contravention of the law or the institution of legal or disciplinary proceedings of whatever nature;
• (b) whether the Foreign Company has ever been the subject of disciplinary procedures by a government body or agency or any self-regulating organisation or other professional body;
• (c) whether the Foreign Company has been refused, or had a restriction placed on, its right to conduct a business or profession requiring a licence, registration or other permission;
• (d) whether the Foreign Company has been censured, disciplined, publicly criticised or the subject of a court order on the application (however described) of any regulatory authority, any officially appointed inquiry, or any other Financial Services Regulator.