C1Part 8A company's members
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.
Pts. 1-39 (except for Pt. 7 and ss. 662-669), 45-47 extended (12.5.2011) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1265), art. 5(1), Sch. 1 para. 2