Section 95: Recording of optional information on register
651.This section inserts new section 1084A into the Companies Act 2006 to give a power to the Secretary of State to make regulations to enable companies voluntarily to deliver certain categories of information to the registrar of companies. This information, which will be additional to the information that companies are statutorily required to deliver to the registrar, will then be made publicly available by the registrar in accordance with section 1080 of the Companies Act 2006.
652.Regulations made under new section 1084A may include requirements on companies in relation to keeping this optional information up to date and the consequences if companies fail to do this. The regulations will be subject to the affirmative resolution procedure.