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(1)Any register of interests in shares and any report which is required by section 215(7) to be available for inspection in accordance with this section shall, F1 . . . be open to the inspection of any member of the company or of any other person without charge.
(2)Any such member or other person may require a copy of any such register or report, or any part of it, on payment of [F2such fee as may be prescribed]; and the company shall cause any copy so required by a person to be sent to him before the expiration of the period of 10 days beginning with the day next following that on which the requirement is received by the company.
(3)If an inspection required under this section is refused or a copy so required is not sent within the proper period, the company and every officer of it who is in default is liable to a fine and, for continued contravention, to a daily default fine.
(4)In the case of a refusal of an inspection required under this section of any register or report, the court may by order compel an immediate inspection of it; and in the case of failure to send a copy required under this section, the court may by order direct that the copy required shall be sent to the person requiring it.
(5)The Secretary of State may by regulations made by statutory instrument substitute a sum specified in the regulations for the sum for the time being mentioned in subsection (2).
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 219(1) repealed (01.11.1991) by Companies Act 1989 (c. 40, SIF 27), ss. 143(5), 212, 213(2), Sch. 24; S.I. 1991/1996, art. 2(2)(b)(c).
F2Words in s. 219(2) substituted (01.11.1991) by Companies Act 1989 (c. 40, SIF 27), ss. 143(5)(b), 213(2); S.I. 1991/1996, art. 2(2)(b).
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 219(1) explained (1.11.1991) by S.I. 1991/1998, reg. 3(1).
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