Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Pts. 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))
C2Pts. 1-39 (except for Pt. 7 and ss. 662-669), 45-47 extended (12.5.2011) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1265), art. 5(1), Sch. 1 para. 2
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 279G-279M and cross-heading inserted (26.10.2023 for specified purposes, 4.3.2024 for specified purposes) by Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (c. 56), s. 219(1)(2)(b), Sch. 2 para. 6; S.I. 2024/269, reg. 2(z10)
(1)A company must give notice to the registrar if—
(a)a person named in the statement under section 12 as the proposed secretary of the company did not become the secretary on its incorporation, or
(b)a person named in the statement under section 12 as one of the proposed joint secretaries of the company become did not become one of the joint secretaries on its incorporation.
(2)A company must give notice to the registrar of any change in the required information about a proposed secretary, or one of the proposed joint secretaries, that occurred—
(a)after the application for the company’s registration under section 9 was delivered to the registrar, but
(b)before the company was incorporated.
(3)But a company is not required to give notice under subsection (2) in respect of a person if it gives notice under subsection (1) in respect of the person.
(4)A notice under subsection (2) must specify the date on which the change occurred.
(5)A notice under this section must be given within the period of 14 days beginning with the day on which the company was incorporated.]