Companies Act 2006

1099 The registrar's index of company names U.K.

(1) The registrar of companies must keep an index of the names of the companies and other bodies to which this section applies.

This is “the registrar's index of company names”.

(2) This section applies to—

(a) UK-registered companies;

(b) any body to which any provision of the Companies Acts applies by virtue of regulations under section 1043 (unregistered companies); and

(c) overseas companies that have registered particulars with the registrar under section 1046, other than companies that appear to the registrar not to be required to do so.

(3) This section also applies to—

(a) limited partnerships [F1 registered in the United Kingdom] [F1 (within the meaning of section 3 of the Limited Partnerships Act 1907)];

(b) limited liability partnerships incorporated in the United Kingdom;

[F2 (c) UK Economic Interest Groupings;

(ca) EEIG establishments, within the meaning of regulation 2(1) of the European Economic Interest Grouping Regulations 1989;]

(d) open-ended investment companies authorised in the United Kingdom;

(e) societies registered under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965 (c. 12) or [F3 the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014].

[F4 (f) protected cell companies registered under Part 4 of the Risk Transformation Regulations 2017.]

[F5 (f) charitable incorporated organisations within the meaning of Part 11 of the Charities Act 2011;

(g) Scottish charitable incorporated organisations within the meaning of Chapter 7, Part 1 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 10)]

(4) The Secretary of State may by order amend subsection (3)—

(a) by the addition of any description of body;

(b) by the deletion of any description of body.

(5) Any such order is subject to negative resolution procedure.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 1099(3)(a) substituted (26.10.2023 but only so far as it confers a power to make regulations or relates to the exercise of the power, otherwise prosp.) by Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (c. 56), ss. 109(4), 219(1)(2)(b)

F2 S. 1099(3)(c)(ca) substituted for s. 1099(3)(c) (31.12.2020) by The European Economic Interest Grouping (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1299), regs. 1, 62(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F3 Words in s. 1099(3)(e) substituted (1.8.2014) by Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 (c. 14), s. 154, Sch. 4 para. 101 (with Sch. 5)

F4 S. 1099(3)(f) inserted (8.12.2017) by The Risk Transformation Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1212), reg. 1(2), Sch. 4 para. 4(c) (with reg. 189)

F5 S. 1099(3)(f)(g) inserted (1.1.2018) by The Index of Company Names (Listed Bodies) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/1233), arts. 1, 2

Commencement Information

I1 S. 1099 wholly in force at 1.10.2009; s. 1099 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 1300; s. 1099 in force for specified purposes at 20.1.2007 by S.I. 2006/3428, art. 3(3) (subject to art. 5, Sch. 1 and with arts. 6, 8, Sch. 5); s. 1099 otherwise in force at 1.10.2009 by S.I. 2008/2860, art. 3(r) (with arts. 5, 7, 8, Sch. 2) (as amended by S.I. 2009/1802, art. 18)