Part 7Re-registration as a means of altering a company's status

Public company becoming private and unlimited

I1110Application and accompanying documents

1

An application for re-registration of a public company as an unlimited private company must contain a statement of the company's proposed name on re-registration.

2

The application must be accompanied by—

a

the prescribed form of assent to the company's being registered as an unlimited company, authenticated by or on behalf of all the members of the company, and

b

a copy of the company's articles as proposed to be amended.

3

The statement of compliance required to be delivered together with the application is a statement that the requirements of this Part as to re-registration as an unlimited private company have been complied with.

4

The statement must contain a statement by the directors of the company—

a

that the persons by whom or on whose behalf the form of assent is authenticated constitute the whole membership of the company, and

b

if any of the members have not authenticated that form themselves, that the directors have taken all reasonable steps to satisfy themselves that each person who authenticated it on behalf of a member was lawfully empowered to do so.

5

The registrar may accept the statement of compliance as sufficient evidence that the company is entitled to be re-registered as an unlimited private company.