Companies Act 2006

575Saving for other restrictions on offer or allotmentU.K.
This section has no associated Explanatory Notes

(1)The provisions of this Chapter are without prejudice to any other enactment by virtue of which a company is prohibited (whether generally or in specified circumstances) from offering or allotting equity securities to any person.

(2)Where a company cannot by virtue of such an enactment offer or allot equity securities to a holder of ordinary shares of the company, those shares are disregarded for the purposes of section 561 (existing shareholders' right of pre-emption), so that—

(a)the person is not treated as a person who holds ordinary shares, and

(b)the shares are not treated as forming part of the ordinary share capital of the company.