C1Part 8A company's members

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Chapter 2Register of members

General

C2114Register to be kept available for inspection

1

A company's register of members must be kept available for inspection—

a

at its registered office, or

b

at a place specified in regulations under section 1136.

2

A company must give notice to the registrar of the place where its register of members is kept available for inspection and of any change in that place.

3

No such notice is required if the register has, at all times since it came into existence (or, in the case of a register in existence on the relevant date, at all times since then) been kept available for inspection at the company's registered office.

4

The relevant date for the purposes of subsection (3) is—

a

1st July 1948 in the case of a company registered in Great Britain, and

b

1st April 1961 in the case of a company registered in Northern Ireland.

C45

If a company makes default for 14 days in complying with subsection (2), an offence is committed by—

a

the company, and

b

every officer of the company who is in default.

6

A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale and, for continued contravention, a daily default fine not exceeding one-tenth of level 3 on the standard scale.