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Version Superseded: 01/10/2009

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[F1652A Registrar may strike private company off register on application.E+W+S

(1)On application by a private company, the registrar of companies may strike the company’s name off the register.

(2)An application by a company under this section shall—

(a)be made on its behalf by its directors or by a majority of them,

(b)be in the prescribed form, and

(c)contain the prescribed information.

(3)The registrar shall not strike a company off under this section until after the expiration of 3 months from the publication by him in the Gazette of a notice—

(a)stating that he may exercise his power under this section in relation to the company, and

(b)inviting any person to show cause why he should not do so.

(4)Where the registrar strikes a company off under this section, he shall publish notice of that fact in the Gazette.

(5)On the publication in the Gazette of a notice under subsection (4), the company to which the notice relates is dissolved.

(6)However, the liability (if any) of every director, managing officer and member of the company continues and may be enforced as if the company had not been dissolved.

(7)Nothing in this section affects the power of the court to wind up a company the name of which has been struck off the register.]

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C1S. 652A applied (with modifications) (6.4.2001) by S.I. 2001/1090, reg. 4, Sch. 2 Pt. I

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