C2C1Part 12Company secretaries
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
F1Notification of information about secretaries
Ss. 279G-279M and cross-heading inserted (26.10.2023 for specified purposes, 4.3.2024 for specified purposes) by Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (c. 56), s. 219(1)(2)(b), Sch. 2 para. 6; S.I. 2024/269, reg. 2(z10)
279GDuty to notify registrar of change in secretary or joint secretary
1
A company must give notice to the registrar if a person—
a
becomes the secretary or one of the joint secretaries of the company, or
b
ceases to be the secretary or one of the joint secretaries of the company.
2
The notice must specify the date on which the person became or ceased to be the secretary or one of the joint secretaries of the company.
3
A notice under subsection (1)(a) must contain—
a
a statement of the required information about the secretary or joint secretary (see sections 279J and 279K), and
b
a statement by the company that the person has consented to act in that capacity.
4
Subsection (1)(a) does not require a company, on its incorporation, to give notice in relation to a person named as the proposed secretary or one of the proposed joint secretaries of the company in the statement under section 12.
5
A notice under this section must be given within the period of 14 days beginning with the day on which the person becomes or ceases to be the secretary or a joint secretary.
Pts. 1-39 modified (31.12.2020) by Regulation (EC) No. 2157/2001, Art. AAA1(3) (as inserted by The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1298), regs. 1, 97 (with regs. 140-145) (as amended by S.I. 2020/523, regs. 1(2), 5(a)-(f)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1))