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711 Public notice by registrar of receipt and issue of certain documents. E+W+S

(1)The registrar of companies shall cause to be published in the Gazette notice of the issue or receipt by him of documents of any of the following descriptions (stating in the notice the name of the company, the description of document and the date of issue or receipt)—

(a)any certificate of incorporation of a company,

(b)any document making or evidencing an alteration in a company’s memorandum or articles,

(c)any notification of a change among the directors of a company,

(d)any copy of a resolution of a public company which gives, varies, revokes or renews an authority for the purposes of section 80 (allotment of relevant securities),

(e)any copy of a special resolution of a public company passed under section 95(1), (2) or (3) (disapplication of pre-emption rights),

(f)any report under section 103 or 104 as to the value of a non-cash asset,

(g)any statutory declaration delivered under section 117 (public company share capital requirements),

(h)any notification (given under section 122) of the redemption of shares.

(j)any statement or notice delivered by a public company under section 128 (registration of particulars of special rights),

(k)any documents delivered by a company under [F1section 242(1) (accounts and reports)],

(l)a copy of any resolution or agreement to which section 380 applies and which—

(i)states the rights attached to any shares in a public company, other than shares which are in all respects uniform (for purposes of section 128) with shares previously allotted, or

(ii)varies rights attached to any shares in a public company, or

(iii)assigns a name or other designation, or a new name or designation, to any class of shares in a public company,

(m)any return of allotments of a public company,

(n)any notice of a change in the situation of a company’s registered office,

(p)any copy of a winding-up order in respect of a company,

(q)any order for the dissolution of a company on a winding up,

(r)any return by a liquidator of the final meeting of a company on a winding up.

[F2(s)any copy of a draft of the terms of a scheme delivered to the registrar of companies under paragraph 2(1) of Schedule 15A,

(t)any copy of an order under section 425(2) or section 427 in respect of a compromise or arrangement to which section 427A(1) applies.]

[F3(u)any return delivered under paragraph 1, 7 or 8 of Schedule 21A (branch registration),

(v)any document delivered under paragraph 1 or 8 of that Schedule,

(w)any notice under section 695A(3) of the closure of a branch,

(x)any document delivered under Schedule 21C (accounts and reports of foreign credit and financial institutions),

(y)any document delivered under Schedule 21D (accounts and reports of oversea companies subject to branch registration, other than credit and financial institutions),

(z)any return delivered under section 703P (particulars of winding up of oversea companies subject to branch registration).]

(2)In section 42 “official notification” means—

(a)in relation to anything stated in a document of any of the above descriptions, the notification of that document in the Gazette under this section, and

(b)in relation to the appointment of a liquidator in a voluntary winding up, the notification of it in the Gazette under [F4section 109 of the Insolvency Act];

and “officially notified” is to be construed accordingly.

Textual Amendments

F1Words substituted (subject to the transitional and saving provisions in S.I. 1990/355, arts. 6–9, Sch. 3 para. 1) by Companies Act 1989 (c. 40, SIF 27), ss. 23, 213(2), Sch. 10 para. 14

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1S. 711 applied with modifications by S.I. 1985/680, regs. 4–6, Sch.

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