Companies Act 2006

50Official seal for share certificates etcU.K.

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(1)A company that has a common seal may have an official seal for use—

(a)for sealing securities issued by the company, or

(b)for sealing documents creating or evidencing securities so issued.

(2)The official seal—

(a)must be a facsimile of the company's common seal, with the addition on its face of the word “Securities”, and

(b)when duly affixed to the document has the same effect as the company's common seal.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1S. 50 applied (with modifications) (1.10.2009) by The Unregistered Companies Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2436), regs. 3-5, Sch. 1 para. 3(f) (with transitional provisions and savings in regs. 7, 9, Sch. 2)