Part 35The registrar of companies

The registrar's index of company names

1099The registrar's index of company names

(1)

The registrar of companies must keep an index of the names of the companies and other bodies to which this section applies.

This is “the registrar's index of company names”.

(2)

This section applies to—

(a)

UK-registered companies;

(b)

any body to which any provision of the Companies Acts applies by virtue of regulations under section 1043 (unregistered companies); and

(c)

overseas companies that have registered particulars with the registrar under section 1046, other than companies that appear to the registrar not to be required to do so.

(3)

This section also applies to—

(a)

limited partnerships F1registered in the United Kingdom F1(within the meaning of section 3 of the Limited Partnerships Act 1907);

(b)

limited liability partnerships incorporated in the United Kingdom;

F2(c)

UK Economic Interest Groupings;

(ca)

EEIG establishments, within the meaning of regulation 2(1) of the European Economic Interest Grouping Regulations 1989;

(d)

open-ended investment companies authorised in the United Kingdom;

(e)

societies registered under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965 (c. 12) or F3the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014.

F4(f)

protected cell companies registered under Part 4 of the Risk Transformation Regulations 2017.

F5(f)

charitable incorporated organisations within the meaning of Part 11 of the Charities Act 2011;

(g)

Scottish charitable incorporated organisations within the meaning of Chapter 7, Part 1 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 10)

(4)

The Secretary of State may by order amend subsection (3)—

(a)

by the addition of any description of body;

(b)

by the deletion of any description of body.

(5)

Any such order is subject to negative resolution procedure.