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(1)Except as provided by section 148, the following applies to a public company—
(a)where shares in the company are forfeited, or surrendered to the company in lieu, in pursuance of the articles, for failure to pay any sum payable in respect of the shares;
[F1(aa)where shares in the company are surrendered to the company in pursuance of section 102C(1)(b) of the Building Societies Act 1986;]
(b)where shares in the company are acquired by it (otherwise than by any of the methods mentioned in section 143(3)(a) to (d)) and the company has a beneficial interest in the shares;
(c)where the nominee of the company acquires shares in the company from a third person without financial assistance being given directly or indirectly by the company and the company has a beneficial interest in the shares; or
(d)where a person acquires shares in the company with financial assistance given to him directly or indirectly by the company for the purpose of or in connection with the acquisition, and the company has a beneficial interest in the shares.
Schedule 2 to this Act has effect for the interpretation of references in this subsection to the company having a beneficial interest in shares.
(2)Unless the shares or any interest of the company in them are previously disposed of, the company must, not later than the end of the relevant period from their forfeiture or surrender or, in a case within subsection (1)(b), (c) or (d), their acquisition—
(a)cancel them and diminish the amount of the share capital by the nominal value of the shares cancelled, and
(b)where the effect of cancelling the shares will be that the nominal value of the company’s allotted share capital is brought below the authorised minimum, apply for re-registration as a private company, stating the effect of the cancellation.
(3)For this purpose “the relevant period” is—
(a)3 years in the case of shares forfeited or surrendered to the company in lieu of forfeiture, or acquired as mentioned in subsection (1)(b) or (c);
(b)one year in the case of shares acquired as mentioned in subsection (1)(d).
(4)The company and, in a case within subsection (1)(c) or (d), the company’s nominee or (as the case may be) the other shareholder must not exercise any voting rights in respect of the shares; and any purported exercise of those rights is void.
Textual Amendments
F1S. 146(1)(aa) inserted (21.3.1997) by 1986 c. 53, s. 102C(5) (as inserted (21.3.1997) by 1997 c. 41, s. 1(1) (with s. 2(2))
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