The Companies (Inspection and Copying of Registers, Indices and Documents) Regulations 1991

Registers of members and debenture holders: presentation and extraction of entries

4.—(1) This Regulation applies to a company’s register of members maintained under section 352 of the Act, to an index of the names of the company’s members maintained under section 354 thereof and to a register of debenture holders maintained under section 190 thereof.

(2) A company is not obliged:

(a) by virtue of section 356(1) of the Act to present for inspection its register of members or an index of members' names; or

(b) by virtue of section 191(1) of the Act to present for inspection a register of debenture holders maintained by it,

in a manner which groups together entries by reference to whether a member or (as the case may be) a debenture holder has given an address in a particular geographical location, is of a particular nationality, has a holding of a certain size, is a natural person or not or is of a particular gender.

(3) Nor is a company obliged:

(a) by virtue of section 356(3) of the Act, in providing a copy of a part of its register of members; or

(b) by virtue of section 191(2) of the Act, in providing a copy of a part of a register of debenture holders,

to extract entries from the register by reference to whether a member or (as the case may be) a debenture holder has given an address in a particular geographical location, is of a particular nationality, has a holding of a certain size, is a natural person or not or is of a particular gender.