Part 2Community interest companies
Becoming a community interest company
F137B.Becoming a community interest company: notice to registrar of court application or order
(1)
On making an application under section 37A (application to court to cancel resolutions) the applicants, or the person making the application on their behalf, must immediately give notice to the registrar of companies.
This is without prejudice to any provision of rules of court as to service of notice of the application.
(2)
On being served with notice of any such application, the company must immediately give notice to the registrar.
(3)
Within 15 days of the making of the court’s order on the application, or such longer period as the court may at any time direct, the company must deliver to the registrar a copy of the order.
(4)
If a company fails to comply with subsection (2) or (3) an offence is committed by—
(a)
the company, and
(b)
every officer of the company who is in default.
(5)
A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale and, for continued contravention, a daily default fine not exceeding one-tenth of level 3 on the standard scale.