C2C1Part 8A company's members

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C2

Pts. 1-39 modified (31.12.2020) by Regulation (EC) No. 2157/2001, Art. AAA1(3) (as inserted by The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1298), regs. 1, 97 (with regs. 140-145) (as amended by S.I. 2020/523, regs. 1(2), 5(a)-(f)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1))

Chapter 3Overseas branch registers

I1129Overseas branch registers

1

A company having a share capital may, if it transacts business in a country or territory to which this Chapter applies, cause to be kept there a branch register of members resident there (an “overseas branch register”).

2

This Chapter applies to—

a

any part of Her Majesty's dominions outside the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, and

b

the countries or territories listed below.

Bangladesh

Malaysia

Cyprus

Malta

Dominica

Nigeria

The Gambia

Pakistan

Ghana

Seychelles

Guyana

Sierra Leone

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China

Singapore

India

South Africa

Ireland

Sri Lanka

Kenya

Swaziland

Kiribati

Trinidad and Tobago

Lesotho

Uganda

Malawi

Zimbabwe

3

The Secretary of State may make provision by regulations as to the circumstances in which a company is to be regarded as keeping a register in a particular country or territory.

4

Regulations under this section are subject to negative resolution procedure.

5

References—

a

in any Act or instrument (including, in particular, a company's articles) to a dominion register, or

b

in articles registered before 1st November 1929 to a colonial register,

are to be read (unless the context otherwise requires) as a reference to an overseas branch register kept under this section.

F2F16

A company's right under subsection (1) to keep an overseas branch register does not apply during or with respect to any period when an election is in force in respect of the company under section 128B.