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Part 35The registrar of companies

Language requirements: transliteration

1108Transliteration of names and addresses: permitted characters

(1)Names and addresses in a document delivered to the registrar must contain only letters, characters and symbols (including accents and other diacritical marks) that are permitted.

(2)The Secretary of State may make provision by regulations—

(a)as to the letters, characters and symbols (including accents and other diacritical marks) that are permitted, and

(b)permitting or requiring the delivery of documents in which names and addresses have not been transliterated into a permitted form.

(3)Regulations under this section are subject to negative resolution procedure.

1109Transliteration of names and addresses: voluntary transliteration into Roman characters

(1)Where a name or address is or has been delivered to the registrar in a permitted form using other than Roman characters, the company may deliver to the registrar a transliteration into Roman characters.

(2)The power of the registrar to impose requirements as to the form and manner of delivery includes power to impose requirements as to the identification of the original document and the delivery of the transliteration in a form and manner enabling it to be associated with the original.

1110Transliteration of names and addresses: certification

(1)The Secretary of State may make provision by regulations requiring the certification of transliterations and prescribing the form of certification.

(2)Different provision may be made for compulsory and voluntary transliterations.

(3)Regulations under this section are subject to negative resolution procedure.