C4C3C2C1Part 31Dissolution and restoration to the register

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C4

Pt. 31 power to apply (with modifications) conferred (E.W.S.) (1.12.2013) by Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Act 2010 (c. 7), ss. 4(1)(2)(c), 8(2); S.I. 2013/2936, art. 2

C3

Pt. 31 power to apply (with modifications) conferred (1.8.2014) by Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 (c. 14), ss. 135, 154 (with Sch. 5)

C2

Pts. 1-39 modified (31.12.2020) by Regulation (EC) No. 2157/2001, Art. AAA1(3) (as inserted by The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1298), regs. 1, 97 (with regs. 140-145) (as amended by S.I. 2020/523, regs. 1(2), 5(a)-(f)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1))

Chapter 1Striking off

Voluntary striking off

I1C51003Striking off on application by company

1

On application by a company, the registrar of companies may strike the company's name off the register.

2

The application—

a

must be made on the company's behalf by its directors or by a majority of them, and

b

must contain the prescribed information.

3

The registrar may not strike a company off under this section until after the expiration of F12 months from the publication by the registrar in the Gazette of a notice—

a

stating that the registrar may exercise the power under this section in relation to the company, and

b

inviting any person to show cause why that should not be done.

4

The registrar must publish notice in the Gazette of the company's name having been struck off.

5

On the publication of the notice in the Gazette the company is dissolved.

6

However—

a

the liability (if any) of every director, managing officer and member of the company continues and may be enforced as if the company had not been dissolved, and

b

nothing in this section affects the power of the court to wind up a company the name of which has been struck off the register.