C10C11C12C13Part 15Accounts and reports

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C11

Pt. 15 applied (with modifications) (6.4.2008) by The Partnerships (Accounts) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/569), regs. 4, 7, Sch. Pt. 1

C12

Pt. 15 applied (with modifications) (1.10.2009) by The Unregistered Companies Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2436), regs. 3-5, Sch. 1 para. 16 (with transitional provisions and savings in regs. 7, 9, Sch. 2)

Chapter 8Public companies: laying of accounts and reports before general meeting

C1C2C3C4C5437Public companies: laying of accounts and reports before general meeting

1

The directors of a public company must lay before the company in general meeting copies of its annual accounts and reports.

2

This section must be complied with not later than the end of the period for filing the accounts and reports in question.

3

In the Companies Acts“accounts meeting”, in relation to a public company, means a general meeting of the company at which the company's annual accounts and reports are (or are to be) laid in accordance with this section.

C6C7C8C9438Public companies: offence of failure to lay accounts and reports

1

If the requirements of section 437 (public companies: laying of accounts and reports before general meeting) are not complied with before the end of the period allowed, every person who immediately before the end of that period was a director of the company commits an offence.

2

It is a defence for a person charged with such an offence to prove that he took all reasonable steps for securing that those requirements would be complied with before the end of that period.

3

It is not a defence to prove that the documents in question were not in fact prepared as required by this Part.

4

A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale and, for continued contravention, a daily default fine not exceeding one-tenth of level 5 on the standard scale.