Companies Act 2006

360Computation of periods of notice etc: clear day rule

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(1)This section applies for the purposes of the following provisions of this Part—

  • section 307(1) and (2) (notice required of general meeting),

  • section 312(1) and (3) (resolution requiring special notice),

  • section 314(4)(d) (request to circulate members' statement),

  • section 316(2)(b) (expenses of circulating statement to be deposited or tendered before meeting),

  • section 338(4)(d)(i) (request to circulate member’s resolution at AGM of public company), and

  • section 340(2)(b)(i) (expenses of circulating statement to be deposited or tendered before meeting).

(2)Any reference in those provisions to a period of notice, or to a period before a meeting by which a request must be received or sum deposited or tendered, is to a period of the specified length excluding—

(a)the day of the meeting, and

(b)the day on which the notice is given, the request received or the sum deposited or tendered.