1. These Regulations may be cited as the Companies (Mergers and Divisions) Regulations 1987, and shall come into force on 1st January 1988.
2. The Companies Act 1985(1) shall be amended as follows—
(a)by the insertion after section 427 of the new section 427A contained in Part I of the Schedule hereto;
(b)by adding at the end of section 711(1) the following paragraphs—
“(s)any copy of a draft of the terms of a scheme delivered to the registrar of companies under paragraph 2(1) of Schedule 15A,
(t)any copy of an order under section 425(2) or section 427 in respect of a compromise or arrangement to which section 427A(1) applies.”;
(c)by the insertion after Schedule 15 of the new Schedule 15A contained in Part II of the Schedule hereto.
Francis Maude
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Trade and Industry
23rd November 1987