Companies Act 1976
PART IAccounts, Accounting Records and Auditors
Duty to prepare, lay and deliver accounts by reference to accounting reference periods
1Duty to prepare, lay and deliver accounts by reference to accounting reference periods
2Accounting reference period of a company
3Alteration of accounting reference period
4Penalties for not complying with section 1 within the period allowed for laying and delivering accounts
5Default order in case of continued failure to comply with section 1(7) after the end of the period allowed for laying and delivering accounts
6The period allowed for laying and delivering accounts
7Transitional provisions and savings
Group accounts
8Group accounts
Duty to prepare and deliver accounts in the case of oversea companies
9Duty to prepare and deliver accounts in the case of oversea companies
10Accounting reference period of oversea company
11Penalty for not complying with section 9 within the period allowed for delivering accounts
Accounting records
12Accounting records
Auditors
13Qualifications of auditors
14Appointment and removal of auditors
15Supplementary provisions relating to appointment and removal of auditors
16Resignation of auditors
17Right of auditor who resigns to requisition meeting of company, etc.
18Powers of auditors in relation to subsidiaries
19False statements, etc. to auditors
20Auditors of body which is both a company and a trade union, etc.
PART IIMiscellaneous and Supplementary
Returns as to directors and registered office
21Statement of first directors and secretary to be delivered on application for registration of company
22Notification of changes in directors and secretary, etc.
23Registered office of company
Disclosure of interests in shares
24Duty of director to notify company of acquisition, etc. of its securities
25Duty of company to notify recognised stock exchange of acquisition, etc. of its securities by director
26Duty to notify company of acquisition, etc. of voting shares
27Power of company to require disclosure of beneficial interests in its voting shares
Disqualification orders
28Disqualification for persistent default in relation to delivery of documents to registrar
29Register of disqualification orders
Companies with registered offices in Wales
30Companies with registered offices in Wales
Regulation of names used by oversea companies for business purposes
31Regulation of name under which oversea company may carry on business in Great Britain
32Amendments of Registration of Business Names Act 1916
Contents of prospectus
33Contents of prospectus
Forms, etc.
34Use of prescribed forms for notices, etc. under Acts of 1948 and 1967
35Size, durability and legibility of documents delivered to registrar
36Power of registrar to accept information on microfilm, etc.
Fees payable to registrar
37Fees payable to registrar
Functions of Secretary of State and registrar
38Functions of Secretary of State and registrar
Criminal proceedings and enforcement
39Criminal proceedings and enforcement
Supplementary provisions
40Application of this Act to certain companies not formed under the Act of 1948
41Application of certain provisions of this Act to unregistered companies
42Minor and consequential amendments and repeals
43Expenses
44Interpretation
45Short title, citation, commencement and extent. Schedules:
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1Prescribed Forms for Acts of 1948 and 1967
SCHEDULE 2Minor and Consequential Amendments
The Companies Act 1948
The Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act 1963
The Protection of Depositors Act 1963
The Companies Act 1967
The Insurance Companies Act 1974
The Stock Exchange (Completion of Bargains) Act 1976
SCHEDULE 3Repeals

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Companies Act 1976

1976 CHAPTER 69

An Act to amend the law relating to companies and, in connection therewith, to amend the law relating to the registration of business names.

Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—