Companies Act 1976

22 Notification of changes in directors and secretary, etc.

(1) For subsections (4) and (5) of section 200 of the Act of 1948 (which require a company to make a return of its first directors and secretary and to notify any change) there shall be substituted—

“(4) The company shall within the period of fourteen days from the occurrence of—

(a) any change among its directors or in its secretary, or

(b) any change in the particulars contained in the register,

send to the registrar of companies a notification in the prescribed form of the change and of the date on which it occurred ; and any notification of a person having become a director or secretary or one of joint secretaries of the company shall contain a consent signed by that person to act in the relevant capacity.”

(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) above—

(a) where the memorandum of a company has been delivered for registration under section 12 of the Act of 1948 before the coming into operation of section 21 above subsections (4) and (5) of section 200 of that Act, as originally enacted, shall continue to apply so as to require that company to send to the registrar of companies a return containing the particulars of its first directors and secretary specified in the register required to be kept under section 200 ; and

(b) those subsections, as originally enacted, shall continue to apply in relation to any change among a company's directors or in its secretary or in any of the particulars contained in that register which occurred before the coming into operation of this section.

(3) In section 9(3) of the [1972 c. 68.] European Communities Act 1972 for paragraph (c) (official notification of receipt by registrar of return relating to a company's register of directors or notification of a change among its directors) there shall be substituted—

“(c) any notification of a change among the directors of a company”;

but this subsection shall not affect the operation of the original paragraph (c) in relation to any return sent to the registrar of companies under section 200(4) of the Act of 1948 as originally enacted after the coming into operation of this section.