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Part 24U.K.A company's annual return

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856Contents of annual return: information about [F1shares and] share capital F2. . . U.K.

[F3(1)  The annual return of a company having a share capital must also contain the following information.

(1A)  The return must contain a statement of capital.]

(2)The statement of capital must state with respect to the company's share capital at the date to which the return is made up—

(a)the total number of shares of the company,

(b)the aggregate nominal value of those shares,

(c)for each class of shares—

(i)[F4the voting rights] attached to the shares,

(ii)the total number of shares of that class, and

(iii)the aggregate nominal value of shares of that class, and

(d)the amount paid up and the amount (if any) unpaid on each share (whether on account of the nominal value of the share or by way of premium).

[F5(2A)  The annual return must also state whether any of the company's shares were, at any time during the return period, shares admitted to trading on a relevant market or on any other market which is outside the United Kingdom.

(2B)  If any of the company's shares were shares admitted to trading as mentioned in subsection (2A), the annual return must also state whether both of the following conditions were satisfied throughout the return period—

(a)there were shares of the company which were shares admitted to trading on a relevant market;

(b)the company was a DTR5 issuer.]

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Textual Amendments

F1S. 856: words in heading inserted (1.10.2011) by The Companies Act 2006 (Annual Returns) Regulations 2011(S.I. 2011/1487), regs. 2(2), {3(2)}

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C2Ss. 854-859 modified (22.2.2008) by The Northern Rock plc Transfer Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/432), art. 17(1), Sch. para. 2(n)

C3Ss. 854-859 modified (8.00 a.m. on 29.9.2008) by the The Bradford & Bingley plc Transfer of Securities and Property etc. Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2546), art. 13(1)(3), Sch. 1 para. 2(n)

C4Ss. 854-859 modified (9.30 a.m. on 7.10.2008) by The Heritable Bank plc Transfer of Certain Rights and Liabilities Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2644), art. 26, Sch. 2 para. 2(n)

C5Ss. 854-859 modified (retrospective to 30.3.2009 at 8.00 a.m.) by The Amendments to Law (Resolution of Dunfermline Building Society) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/814), arts. 1(2), 7, Sch. para. 2(n)

C6Ss. 854-859 applied (with modifications) (1.10.2009) by The Unregistered Companies Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2436), regs. 3-5, Sch. 1 para. 13 (with transitional provisions and savings in regs. 7, 9, Sch. 2)

Commencement Information

I1S. 856 wholly in force at 1.10.2009; s. 856 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 1300; s. 856 in force for specified purposes at 20.1.2007 by S.I. 2006/3428, art. 3(3) (subject to art. 5, Sch. 1 and with arts. 6, 8, Sch. 5); s. 856 otherwise in force at 1.10.2009 by S.I. 2008/2860, art. 3(m) (with arts. 5, 7, 8, Sch. 2) (as amended by S.I. 2009/1802, art. 18)