Version Superseded: 31/12/2020
Point in time view as at 06/04/2018. This version of this provision has been superseded.
Companies Act 2006, Section 146 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 02 March 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.
(1)This section applies to a company whose shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market.
(2)A member of such a company who holds shares on behalf of another person may nominate that person to enjoy information rights.
(3)“Information rights” means—
(a)the right to receive a copy of all communications that the company sends to its members generally or to any class of its members that includes the person making the nomination, and
(b)the rights conferred by—
(i)section 431 or 432 (right to require copies of accounts and reports), and
(ii)section 1145 (right to require hard copy version of document or information provided in another form).
(4)The reference in subsection (3)(a) to communications that a company sends to its members generally includes the company's annual accounts and reports.
For the application of section 426 (option to provide [F1strategic report with supplementary material]) in relation to a person nominated to enjoy information rights, see subsection (5) of that section.
(5)A company need not act on a nomination purporting to relate to certain information rights only.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 146(4) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(4) of the amending S.I.) by The Companies Act 2006 (Strategic Report and Directors' Report) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/1970), reg. 1(2)(3), Sch. para. 2
Commencement Information
I1S. 146 wholly in force at 1.10.2007; s. 146 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 1300; s. 146 in force at 1.10.2007 by S.I. 2007/2194, art. 2(1)(c) (with savings in art. 12 and with transitional provisions and savings in Sch. 3 and subject to transitional adaptations specified in Sch. 1)
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