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- Pwynt Penodol mewn Amser (26/05/2008)
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(1)Subject as follows, a company which is registered as limited may be re-registered as unlimited in pursuance of an application in that behalf complying with the requirements of this section.
(2)A company is excluded from re-registering under this section if it is limited by virtue of re-registration under section 44 of the M1Companies Act 1967 or section 51 of this Act.
(3)A public company cannot be re-registered under this section; nor can a company which has previously been re-registered as unlimited.
(4)An application under this section must be in the prescribed form and be signed by a director or the secretary of the company, and be lodged with the registrar of companies, together with the documents specified in subsection (8) below.
(5)The application must set out such alterations in the company’s memorandum as—
(a)if it is to have a share capital, are requisite to bring it (in substance and in form) into conformity with the requirements of this Act with respect to the memorandum of a company to be formed as an unlimited company having a share capital; or
(b)if it is not to have a share capital, are requisite in the circumstances.
(6)If articles have been registered, the application must set out such alterations in them as—
(a)if the company is to have a share capital, are requisite to bring the articles (in substance and in form) into conformity with the requirements of this Act with respect to the articles of a company to be formed as an unlimited company having a share capital; or
(b)if the company is not to have a share capital, are requisite in the circumstances.
(7)If articles have not been registered, the application must have annexed to it, and request the registration of, printed articles; and these must, if the company is to have a share capital, comply with the requirements mentioned in subsection (6)(a) and, if not, be articles appropriate to the circumstances.
(8)The documents to be lodged with the registrar are—
(a)the prescribed form of assent to the company’s being registered as unlimited, subscribed by or on behalf of all the members of the company;
(b)[F1Subject to subsection (8A),]a statutory declaration made by the directors of the company—
(i)that the persons by whom or on whose behalf the form of assent is subscribed constitute the whole membership of the company, and
(ii)if any of the members have not subscribed that form themselves, that the directors have taken all reasonable steps to satisfy themselves that each person who subscribed it on behalf of a member was lawfully empowered to do so;
(c)a printed copy of the memorandum incorporating the alterations in it set out in the application; and
(d)if articles have been registered, a printed copy of them incorporating the alterations set out in the application.
[F2(8A)In place of the lodging of a statutory declaration under paragraph (b) of subsection (8), there may be delivered to the registrar of companies using electronic communications a statement made by the directors of the company as to the matters set out in sub-paragraphs (i) and (ii) of that paragraph.
F2(8B)Any person who makes a false statement under subsection (8A) which he knows to be false or does not believe to be true is liable to imprisonment or a fine, or both.]
(9)For purposes of this section—
(a)subscription to a form of assent by the legal personal representative of a deceased member of a company is deemed subscription by him; and
(b)a trustee in bankruptcy of a member of a company is, to the exclusion of the latter, deemed a member of the company.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 49(8)(b) inserted (22.12.2000) by S.I. 2000/3373, art. 8(1)(2)
F2S. 49(8A)(8B) inserted (22.12.2000) by S.I. 2000/3373, art. 8(1)(3)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 49 modified (1.7.2005) by Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Act 2004 (c. 27), ss. 52(1), 65; S.I. 2004/3322, art. 2(3), Sch. 3 (subject to arts. 3-13)
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