Point in time view as at 01/01/2007. This version of this provision is not valid for this point in time.
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Valid from 06/04/2008
Where in the case of any company the office of secretary is vacant, or there is for any other reason no secretary capable of acting, anything required or authorised to be done by or to the secretary may be done—
(a)by or to an assistant or deputy secretary (if any), or
(b)if there is no assistant or deputy secretary or none capable of acting, by or to any person authorised generally or specifically in that behalf by the directors.
Commencement Information
I1S. 274 wholly in force at 6.4.2008; s. 274 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 1300; s. 274 in force at 6.4.2008 by S.I. 2007/3495, art. 3(1)(c) (with savings in arts. 7, 12 and subject to transitional adaptations in Sch. 1 paras. 3-5 and with transitional provisions and savings in Sch. 4 paras. 4, 5)
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