The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment) Regulations 2009

Interpretation

1.—(1) In this Schedule—

(a) “existing SE” means an SE which, immediately before 1st October 2009, was registered in accordance with regulation 12 of the SEs Regulations or regulation 12 of the Northern Ireland SEs Regulations;

(b) “the SEs Regulations” means the European Public Limited-Liability Company Regulations 2004;

(c) “the new SEs Regulations” means the SEs Regulations, as amended by these Regulations;

(d) “the old SEs Regulations” means the SEs Regulations, disregarding the amendments made by these Regulations;

(e) “the Northern Ireland SEs Regulations” means the European Public Limited-Liability Company Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004.

(2) In this Schedule—

“the Companies Acts register” means the register, within the meaning given by section 1080(2) of the Companies Act 2006, as that provision has effect in relation to SEs;

“the old Regulations” means—

(a)

the old SEs Regulations;

(b)

the Northern Ireland SEs Regulations;

“register of SO members” means the register of particulars of members of its supervisory organ which a two-tier SE is required to keep—

(a)

by regulation 79 of the SEs Regulations, or

(b)

by regulation 77 of the Northern Ireland SEs Regulations;

“SE” has the same meaning as in the SEs Regulations;

“two-tier SE” means an SE which has adopted the form of a two-tier system in its statutes.