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(1)Every public company shall keep a register for purposes of sections 198 to 202, and whenever the company receives information from a person in consequence of the fulfilment of an obligation imposed on him by any of those sections, it is under obligation to inscribe in the register, against that person’s name, that information and the date of the inscription.
(2)Without prejudice to subsection (1), where a company receives a notification under this Part which includes a statement that the person making the notification, or any other person, has ceased to be a party to an agreement to which section 204 applies, the company is under obligation to record that information against the name of that person in every place where his name appears in the register as a party to that agreement (including any entry relating to him made against another person’s name).
(3)An obligation imposed by subsection (1) or (2) must be fulfilled within the period of 3 days next following the day on which it arises.
(4)The company is not, by virtue of anything done for the purposes of this section, affected with notice of, or put upon enquiry as to, the rights of any person in relation to any shares.
(5)The register must be so made up that the entries against the several names entered in it appear in chronological order.
(6)Unless the register is in such form as to constitute in itself an index, the company shall keep an index of the names entered in the register which shall in respect of each name contain a sufficient indication to enable the information entered against it to be readily found; and the company shall, within 10 days after the date on which a name is entered in the register, make any necessary alteration in the index.
(7)If the company ceases to be a public company it shall continue to keep the register and any associated index until the end of the period of 6 years beginning with the day next following that on which it ceased to be such a company.
(8)The register and any associated index—
(a)shall be kept at the place at which the register required to be kept by the company by section 325 (register of directors’ interests) is kept, and
(b)subject to the next subsection, shall be available for inspection in accordance with section 219 below.
(9)Neither the register nor any associated index shall be available for inspection in accordance with that section in so far as it contains information with respect to a company for the time being entitled to avail itself of the benefit conferred by [F1section 231(3)] (disclosure or shareholdings not required if it would be harmful to company’s business).
(10)If default is made in complying with subsection (1) or (2), or with any of subsections (5) to (7), the company and every officer of it who is in default is liable to a fine and, for continued contravention, to a daily default fine.
(11)Any register kept by a company immediately before 15th June 1982 under section 34 of the M1Companies Act 1967 shall continue to be kept by the company under and for the purposes of this section.
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F1Words substituted (subject to transitional and saving provisions in S.I. 1990/355, arts. 6–9) by Companies Act 1989 (c. 40, SIF 27), ss. 23, 213(2), Sch. 10 para. 3
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