Companies Act 2006

[F11087A Protection of date of birth informationU.K.

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(1)The registrar must not make available for public inspection—

(a)so much of any document delivered to the registrar as is required to contain relevant date of birth information;

(b)any record of the information contained in part of a document that is unavailable because of paragraph (a).

(2)This section has limited application in relation to documents delivered before it comes fully into force: see section 1087B.

(3)“Relevant date of birth information” means—

(a)information as to the day of the month (but not the month or year) on which a director (or proposed director) was born;

(b)information as to the day of the month (but not the month or year) on which a registrable person in relation to the company was born.

(4)Information about a director (or proposed director) or registrable person does not cease to be relevant date of birth information when they cease to be a director (or proposed director) or registrable person.

(5)Subsection (1)(b) does not affect the availability for public inspection of the same information contained in material derived from a part of a document that was not required to contain the information.

(6)In this section “registrable person”, in relation to a company, has the meaning given by section 790C(4).]

Textual Amendments

F1Ss. 1087A-1087C substituted (26.10.2023 for specified purposes, 4.3.2024 in so far as not already in force) by Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (c. 56), ss. 52(3), 219(1)(2)(b); S.I. 2024/269, reg. 2(z11)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C2Ss. 1085-1091: power to apply (with or without modifications) conferred (31.1.2019) by Technical and Further Education Act 2017 (c. 19), ss. 8, 47(2); S.I. 2018/1161, reg. 3(a)