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Version Superseded: 31/12/2020

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Companies Act 2006, Section 1091 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 19 January 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations. Help about Changes to Legislation

1091Certification of copies as accurateU.K.

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(1)Copies provided under section 1086 in hard copy form must be certified as true copies unless the applicant dispenses with such certification.

(2)Copies so provided in electronic form must not be certified as true copies unless the applicant expressly requests such certification.

(3)A copy provided under section 1086, certified by the registrar (whose official position it is unnecessary to prove) to be an accurate record of the contents of the original document, is in all legal proceedings admissible in evidence—

(a)as of equal validity with the original document, and

(b)as evidence (in Scotland, sufficient evidence) of any fact stated in the original document of which direct oral evidence would be admissible.

(4)The Secretary of State may make provision by regulations as to the manner in which such a certificate is to be provided in a case where the copy is provided in electronic form.

(5)Except in the case of documents that are subject to the Directive disclosure requirements (see section 1078), copies provided by the registrar may, instead of being certified in writing to be an accurate record, be sealed with the registrar's official seal.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1S. 1091 applied (15.12.2007) by The Companies (Cross-Border Mergers) Regulations (S.I. 2007/2974), {reg. 19(4)(h)}

C2S. 1091 applied (15.12.2007) by The Companies (Cross-Border Mergers) Regulations (S.I. 2007/2974), {reg. 12(6)(f)}

C3S. 1091 applied (with modifications) (1.10.2009) by The Unregistered Companies Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2436), regs. 3-5, Sch. 1 para. 20(1)(e) (with transitional provisions and savings in regs. 7, 9, Sch. 2)

C4S. 1091 applied by S.I. 2014/3209, reg 20A Table A (as inserted (18.12.2015) by The Reports on Payments to Governments (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1928), regs. 1(2), 3)

C7Ss. 1085-1091: power to apply (with or without modifications) conferred (31.1.2019) by Technical and Further Education Act 2017 (c. 19), ss. 8, 47(2); S.I. 2018/1161, reg. 3(a)

Commencement Information

I1S. 1091 wholly in force at 1.1.2007, see s. 1300 and S.I. 2006/3428, art. 2(1)(f) (subject to art. 5, Sch. 1 and with arts. 6, 8, Sch. 5)

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