12 Duty of registrar.E+W+S
(1)The registrar of companies shall not register a company’s memorandum delivered under section 10 unless he is satisfied that all the requirements of this Act in respect of registration and of matters precedent and incidental to it have been complied with.
(2)Subject to this, the registrar shall retain and register the memorandum and articles (if any) delivered to him under that section.
(3)A statutory declaration in the prescribed form by—
(a)a solicitor engaged in the formation of a company, or
(b)a person named as a director or secretary of the company in the statement delivered under section 10(2),
that those requirements have been complied with shall be delivered to the registrar of companies, and the registrar may accept such a declaration as sufficient evidence of compliance.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 12(2) modified (27.7.1999) by 1999 c. 20, s. 4(1) (with s. 15)