Part V Share Capital, its Increase, Maintenance and Reduction
Chapter VIII Miscellaneous Provisions about Shares and Debentures
Debentures
190 Register of debenture holders. C1
1
A company registered in England and Wales shall not keep in Scotland any register of holders of debentures of the company or any duplicate of any such register or part of any such register which is kept outside Great Britain.
2
A company registered in Scotland shall not keep in England and Wales any such register or duplicate as above-mentioned.
3
Neither a register of holders of debentures of a company nor a duplicate of any such register or part of any such register which is kept outside Great Britain shall be kept in England and Wales (in the case of a company registered in England and Wales) or in Scotland (in the case of a company registered in Scotland) elsewhere than—
a
at the company’s registered office; or
b
at any office of the company at which the work of making it up is done; or
c
if the company arranges with some other person for the making up of the register or duplicate to be undertaken on its behalf by that other person, at the office of that other person at which the work is done.
4
Where a company keeps (in England and Wales or in Scotland, as the case may be) both such a register and such a duplicate, it shall keep them at the same place.
5
Every company which keeps any such register or duplicate in England and Wales or Scotland shall send to the registrar of companies notice (in the prescribed form) of the place where the register or duplicate is kept and of any change in that place.
6
But a company is not bound to send notice under subsection (5) where the register or duplicate has, at all times since it came into existence, been kept at the company’s registered office.