353 Location of register.E+W+S
(1)A company’s register of members shall be kept at its registered office, except that—
(a)if the work of making it up is done at another office of the company, it may be kept there; and
(b)if the company arranges with some other person for the making up of the register to be undertaken on its behalf by that other, it may be kept at the office of the other at which the work is done;
but it must not be kept, in the case of a company registered in England and Wales, at any place elsewhere than in England and Wales or, in the case of a company registered in Scotland, at any place elsewhere than in Scotland.
(2)Subject as follows, every company shall send notice in the prescribed form to the registrar of companies of the place where its register of members is kept, and of any change in that place.
(3)The notice need not be sent if the register has, at all times since it came into existence (or, in the case of a register in existence on 1st July 1948, at all times since then) been kept at the company’s registered office.
(4)If a company makes default for 14 days in complying with subsection (2), 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.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 353(4) extended by S.I. 1985/724, reg. 3(5)