C2C3C4Part 35The registrar of companies

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)

Inspection etc of the register

I1C1C5C61087Material not available for public inspection

1

The following material must not be made available by the registrar for public inspection—

a

the contents of any document sent to the registrar containing views expressed pursuant to section 56 (comments on proposal by company to use certain words or expressions in company name);

b

protected information within section 242(1) (directors' residential addresses: restriction on disclosure by registrar) or any corresponding provision of regulations under section 1046 (overseas companies);

F1ba

representations received by the registrar in response to a notice under—

i

section 245(2) F2 (notice of proposal to put director's usual residential address on the public record), or

ii

any corresponding provision of regulations under section 1046 (overseas companies);

F8bb

information to which sections 240 to 244 are applied by section 790ZF(1) (residential addresses of people with significant control over the company) or any corresponding provision of regulations under section 1046 (overseas companies);

bc

information that, by virtue of regulations under section 790ZG or any corresponding provision of regulations under section 1046, the registrar must omit from the material on the register that is available for inspection;

c

any application to the registrar under section 1024 (application for administrative restoration to the register) that has not yet been determined or was not successful;

d

any document received by the registrar in connection with the giving or withdrawal of consent under section 1075 (informal correction of documents);

F7da

information falling within section 1087A(1) (information about a person's date of birth);

e

any application or other document delivered to the registrar under section 1088 (application to make address unavailable for public inspection) and any address in respect of which such an application is successful;

f

any application or other document delivered to the registrar under section 1095 (application for rectification of register);

g

any court order under section 1096 (rectification of the register under court order) that the court has directed under section 1097 (powers of court on ordering removal of material from the register) is not to be made available for public inspection;

F6ga

any application or other document delivered to the registrar under section 1097A (rectification of company registered office) other than an order or direction of the court;

F3h

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i

any e-mail address, identification code or password deriving from a document delivered for the purpose of authorising or facilitating electronic filing procedures or providing information by telephone;

F5j

the contents of any documents held by the registrar pending a decision of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies under—

i

section 36A of the Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Act 2004 (eligibility for registration as community interest company),

ii

section 38 of that Act (eligibility for conversion to community interest company), or

iii

section 55 of that Act (eligibility for conversion from community interest company to charity),

and that the registrar is not later required to record;

k

any other material excluded from public inspection by or under any other enactment.

2

A restriction applying by reference to material deriving from a particular description of document does not affect the availability for public inspection of the same information contained in material derived from another description of document in relation to which no such restriction applies.

3

Material to which this section applies need not be retained by the registrar for longer than appears to the registrar reasonably necessary for the purposes for which the material was delivered to the registrar.