Explanatory Notes

Companies Act 2006

2006 CHAPTER 46

8 November 2006

Commentary

Chapter 8: Directors’ Residential Addresses: Protection from Disclosure

Section 244: Disclosure under court order

454.This section provides for two circumstances in which the court may require the company to disclose protected information. The first circumstance is that the service address is not effective; the second is that the home address is needed for the enforcement of an order or decree of the court. If the company cannot provide the address, the court may require the registrar to reveal it. Subsection (3) provides that the application for the order may be made not only by a liquidator, creditor or member of the company but also by anyone with sufficient interest.