Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Act 2004

[F136Formation of company as a community interest companyE+W+S

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(1)If a company is to be formed as a community interest company, the documents delivered to the registrar of companies under section 9 of the Companies Act 2006 (registration documents) must be accompanied by the prescribed formation documents.

(2)The “prescribed formation documents” means such declarations or statements as are required by regulations to accompany the application, in such form as may be approved in accordance with the regulations.

(3)On receiving the documents delivered under that section and the prescribed formation documents, the registrar must (instead of registering the documents)—

(a)forward a copy of each of the documents to the Regulator, and

(b)retain the documents pending the Regulator’s decision.]