The Companies (Cross-Border Mergers) Regulations 2007

Notification of registration

21.—(1) Where the registrar of companies receives a copy of an order made under regulation 16 (court approval of merger) approving the completion of a cross-border merger, he must—

(a) without undue delay, in relation to each transferor company which is an EEA company to which the First Company Law Directive applies, give notice of that order to the register in which the company file mentioned in Article 3 of the First Company Law Directive (file for each registered company to be kept in national register) is kept;

(b) without undue delay, in relation to any other transferor company which is a EEA company, give notice of the order to the register, if any, in which it is entered; and

(c) on or without undue delay after the date fixed in the order for the purposes of regulation 16(2) (court approval of merger), take the steps specified in paragraph (3) in relation to every UK transferor company.

(2) Where the registrar of companies receives from the registry of another EEA State notice for the purposes of Article 13 of the Directive (notification of registries in other Member States) of an order approving the completion of a cross-border merger, he must on or without undue delay after the date fixed for the purposes of Article 12 of the Directive (entry into effect of the cross-border merger) take the steps specified in paragraph (3) in relation to every UK transferor company.

(3) The steps referred to in paragraphs (1)(c) and (2) are—

(a) striking the name of the UK transferor company from the UK register, and

(b) placing a note in the register stating that as from the date on which the consequences of the cross-border merger had effect (see regulation 16(2) and Article 12 of the Directive), the assets and liabilities of the UK transferor company were transferred to the transferee company.