Companies (Forms) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

1997 No. 313

COMPANIES

Companies (Forms) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

Made

24th June 1997

Coming into operation

22nd August 1997

The Department of Economic Development, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 232(2), 233(1) and (2), 650 and 681(1) of the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986(1) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Companies (Forms) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 and shall come into operation on 22nd August 1997.

(2) In these Regulations—

“the 1986 Order” means the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986; and

“the 1990 Regulations” means the Companies (Forms) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1990(2).

2.  With effect from 22nd August 1997, form 233 in the Schedule, with such variations as circumstances require, is the form prescribed for the purposes of Article 233 of the 1986 Order, including that Article as applied by Article 650 of the 1986 Order.

3.—(1) With effect from 22nd August 1997, forms 233(1), 233(2), 650b and 650c in Schedule 2 to the 1990 Regulations are revoked, save that those forms may be used until 22nd August 1998 for those purposes of Article 233 of the 1986 Order (including that Article as applied by Article 650) which correspond to the purposes for which the forms were originally prescribed.

(2) With effect from 22nd May 1998, forms 232 and 650a in Schedule 2 to the 1990 Regulations are revoked.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Economic Development on

L.S.

A. L. Brown

Assistant Secretary

24th June 1997.

Regulation 2

SCHEDULE

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations prescribe a new form 233 to be used by companies (including certain Part XXIII companies) in order to change their accounting reference date under Article 233 of the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986. The new forms reflect amendments to Article 233 made by regulation 3 of the Companies (1986 Order) (Miscellaneous Accounting Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997, and will take effect on 22nd August 1997, the date on which those amendments come into operation.

The Regulations revoke existing forms 233(1), 233(2), 650b and 650c with effect from 22nd August 1997. These forms will be replaced by new form 233. There is, however, a transitional provision permitting the existing forms to be used until 22nd August 1998 in certain circumstances.

The Regulations revoke existing forms 232 and 650a with effect from 22nd May 1998, after which they become obsolete due to amendments to Article 232 of the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 made by regulation 2 of the Companies (1986 Order) (Miscellaneous Accounting Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997.

(1)

S.I. 1986/1032 (N.I. 6); Articles 232 and 233 were inserted into the 1986 Order in place of existing Articles of those numbers by Article 5 of the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1990 (S.I. 1990/593 (N.I. 5)) and amended by regulations 2 and 3 of S.R. 1997 No. 314. Article 650 was substituted by Article 25 of, and paragraph 18 of Schedule 10 to, the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1990.

(2)

S.R. 1990 No. 383