The Companies Act 1989 (Commencement No. 7 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 1990

Transitional and saving provisions

6.—(1) Where in consequence of the coming into force of paragraph 2 of Schedule 19 to the 1989 Act a company comes under an obligation to amend the particulars of an existing director or shadow director contained in the register of directors required to be kept by section 288 of the 1985 Act, then:

(a) the company shall not, for the purposes of section 288(4) of the 1985 Act, be in default for a failure to make those amendments unless they have not been made by 1st November 1990; and

(b) the company need not notify the registrar of companies under section 288(2) of the 1985 Act of those amendments when made.

For the purposes of this paragraph, an “existing” director or shadow director is a director or shadow director of the company who was such a director on 30th September 1990 and “company” includes any body corporate to which section 288 of the 1985 Act is applied by any enactment.

(2) Where an oversea company (other than an oversea company to which section 699 of the 1985 Act applies) has delivered to the registrar of companies a list of directors and secretary under section 691 of the 1985 Act prior to 1st October 1990 (the commencement of paragraph 6 of Schedule 19 to the 1989 Act) it shall, by 1st January 1991, make a return under section 692(1) of the 1985 Act containing the particulars required by section 691(2)(a)(vii) (as inserted by the said paragraph 6) (the date of birth of each director of the company); for the purposes of section 697 of the 1985 Act (penalties for non-compliance) this paragraph shall be treated as a requirement of section 692 of the 1985 Act.