C1Part 3A company's constitution
Chapter 4Miscellaneous and supplementary provisions
Other provisions with respect to a company's constitution
36Documents to be incorporated in or accompany copies of articles issued by company
1
Every copy of a company's articles issued by the company must be accompanied by—
a
a copy of any resolution or agreement relating to the company to which Chapter 3 applies (resolutions and agreements affecting a company's constitution),
b
where the company has been required to give notice to the registrar under section 34(2) (notice where company's constitution altered by enactment), a statement that the enactment in question alters the effect of the company's constitution,
c
where the company's constitution is altered by a special enactment (see section 34(4)), a copy of the enactment, and
d
a copy of any order required to be sent to the registrar under section 35(2)(a) (order of court or other authority altering company's constitution).
2
This does not require the articles to be accompanied by a copy of a document or by a statement if—
a
the effect of the resolution, agreement, enactment or order (as the case may be) on the company's constitution has been incorporated into the articles by amendment, or
b
the resolution, agreement, enactment or order (as the case may be) is not for the time being in force.
3
If the company fails to comply with this section, an offence is committed by every officer of the company who is in default.
4
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 for each occasion on which copies are issued, or, as the case may be, requested.
5
For the purposes of this section, a liquidator of the company is treated as an officer of it.
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