This Statutory Instrument has been printed to correct errors in Statutory Instrument 1994/117 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

1994 No. 727

Companies

The Companies (Welsh Language Forms and Documents) (Amendment) Regulations 1994

Made

9th March 1994

Coming into force

1st April 1994

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 710B(3) and 744(1) of the Companies Act 1985(2), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Companies (Welsh Language Forms and Documents) (Amendment) Regulations 1994, and shall come into force on 1st April 1994.

2. For regulation 4(3) of the Companies (Welsh Language Forms and Documents) Regulations 1994(3), there shall be substituted the following:

“(3) For the purpose of paragraph (2), a "relevant company" is such a company as is mentioned in section 710B(1)(b), other than a public company whose shares or debentures, or any class of whose shares or denentures, are listed within the meaning of section 251(1).(4).”

Arthur Russell

Under-Secretary

Department of Trade and Industry

9th March 1994

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Companies (Welsh Language Forms and Documents) Regulations 1994, S.I. 1994/117 (“the principal Regulations”). Regulations 4(2) of the principal Regulations prescribes a list of documents which may be delivered by a company to the registrar of companies in Welsh without an accompanying English translation, The application of this provision is confined to a "relevant company". These Regulations amend the definition of "relevant company" contained in regulation 4(3) of the principal Regulations. They make it clear that the companies excluded from the application of regulation 4(1) and (2) are public companies whose shares or debentures, or any class thereof, are admitted to the Offical List of the International Stock Exchange of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland Limited.

(1)

See the definition of "prescribed".

(2)

1985 c.6. Section 710B is inserted into the Companies Act 1985 by sectrion 30(6) of the Welsh Language Act 1993 (1993 c.38).

(3)

S.I. 1994/117.

(4)

Section 251 was substituted by sections 1 and 15 of the Companies Act 1989 (c.40). It was amended by the Companies Act 1985 (Amendment of Sections 250 and 251) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/3003).