71.—(1) The Authority must maintain a register of open-ended investment companies.
(2) The Authority may keep the register in any form it thinks fit provided that it is possible to inspect the information contained on it and to obtain a copy of that information (or any part of it) for inspection.
72.—(1) The Authority must allocate to every open-ended investment company a number, which is to be known as the company’s registered number.
(2) Companies’ registered numbers must be in such form, consisting of one or more sequences of figures or letters, as the Authority may from time to time determine.
(3) The Authority may, upon adopting a new form of registered number, make such changes of existing registered numbers (including numbers allocated by the appropriate registrar) as appear to it to be necessary.
(4) A change in a company’s registered number has effect from the date on which the company is notified by the Authority of the change.
73. Any document which is required by these Regulations to be delivered to the Authority to be recorded on the register maintained pursuant to regulation 71 must be delivered in such form as the Authority may from time to time specify.
74.—(1) The information contained in a document delivered to the Authority under any provision of these Regulations may be recorded and kept by it in any form it thinks fit, provided that it is possible to inspect the information and produce a copy of it F1....
[F2(2) The originals of documents delivered to the Authority under any provision of these Regulations in hard copy form must be kept for three years after they are received by the Authority, after which they may be destroyed provided the information contained in them has been recorded in the register.
(2A) The Authority is under no obligation to keep the originals of documents delivered in electronic form, provided the information contained in them has been recorded in the register.]
(3) Where a company has been dissolved, the Authority may, at any time after the expiration of two years from the date of the dissolution, direct that any records in its custody relating to the company may be removed to the Public Record Office; and records in respect of which such a direction is given must be disposed of in accordance with the enactments relating to that Office and the rules made under them.
(4) Paragraph (3) does not extend to Scotland.
[F3(5) Paragraphs (2) and (2A) apply to documents held by the Authority when this paragraph comes into force as well as to documents subsequently received.]
Textual Amendments
F1Words in reg. 74(1) omitted (12.5.2011) by virtue of The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1265), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 26(a) (with Sch. 3)
F2Reg. 74(2)(2A) substituted for reg. 74(2) (12.5.2011) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1265), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 26(b) (with Sch. 3)
F3Reg. 74(5) inserted (12.5.2011) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1265), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 26(c) (with Sch. 3)
75.—[F4(1) Any person may inspect the register kept by the Authority for the purposes of this Part of these Regulations, and may require a copy of any material on the register.
(1A) The Authority may specify the form and manner in which an application is to be made for inspection or a copy under paragraph (1).
(1B) Copies of documents required to be registered under regulation 4 must be provided in hard copy or electronic form, as the applicant requests.
(1C) The Authority is not obliged by paragraph (1B) to provide copies in electronic form of a document that was delivered to the Authority in hard copy form if the document was delivered to the Authority on or before 31st December 2006 and ten years or more elapsed between the date of delivery and the date of receipt of the first application for a copy.
(1D) Subject to paragraphs (1B) and (1C), the Authority may determine the form and manner in which copies are to be provided.
(1E) Copies provided under paragraph (1) in hard copy form must be certified as true copies unless the applicant dispenses with such certification.
(1F) Copies provided under paragraph (1) in electronic form must not be certified as true copies unless the applicant expressly requests such certification.]
(2) The right of inspection extends to the originals of documents delivered to the Authority [F5in hard copy form] only where the record kept by the Authority of the contents of the document is illegible or unavailable.
(3) [F6A copy provided under this regulation], on which is endorsed a certificate signed by a member of the Authority’s staff authorised by it for that purpose certifying that it is an accurate record of the contents of any document delivered to the Authority under these Regulations, is in all legal proceedings admissible in evidence as of equal validity with the original document and as evidence of any fact stated therein of which direct oral evidence would be admissible.
(4) No process for compelling the production of a document kept by the Authority under these Regulations is to issue from any court except with the leave of the court; and any such process must bear on it a statement that it is issued with the leave of the court.
Textual Amendments
F4Reg. 75(1)-(1F) substituted for reg. 75(1) (12.5.2011) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1265), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 27(a) (with Sch. 3)
F5Words in reg. 75(2) substituted (12.5.2011) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1265), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 27(b) (with Sch. 3)
F6Words in reg. 75(3) substituted (12.5.2011) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1265), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 27(c) (with Sch. 3)
76. Any requirement of these Regulations as to the supply by the Authority of a document may, if the Authority thinks fit, be satisfied by the communication by the Authority of the information [F8in electronic form].
Textual Amendments
F7Words in reg. 76 heading substituted (12.5.2011) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1265), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 28(1) (with Sch. 3)
F8Words in reg. 76 substituted (12.5.2011) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1265), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 28(2) (with Sch. 3)
77.—(1) This regulation applies to any document which is delivered to the Authority under these Regulations and relates to an open-ended investment company (whether already registered or to be registered) whose instrument of incorporation states that its head office is to be situated in Wales.
(2) A document to which this regulation applies may be in Welsh but must be accompanied by a certified translation into English.
(3) The requirement for a translation imposed by paragraph (2) does not apply—
(a)to documents of such description as may be specified in [F9FCA rules]; or
(b)to documents in a form prescribed in Welsh (or partly in Welsh and partly in English) by virtue of section 26 of the Welsh Language Act 1993 M1 (powers to prescribe Welsh forms).
(4) An open-ended investment company whose instrument of incorporation states that its head office is to be situated in Wales may deliver to the Authority a certified translation into Welsh of any document in English which relates to the company and which is or has been delivered to the Authority.
(5) In this regulation “certified translation" means a translation which is certified in the manner specified in [F9FCA rules] to be a correct translation.
Textual Amendments
F9Words in Regulations substituted (1.4.2013) by The Financial Services Act 2012 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/472), Sch. 2 para. 41(2)
Marginal Citations
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Textual Amendments
F10Reg. 78 omitted (6.4.2005) by virtue of The Open-Ended Investment Companies (Amendment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/923), regs. 1, 2(8)
F1179. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Textual Amendments
F11Reg. 79 omitted (12.5.2011) by virtue of The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1265), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 29 (with Sch. 3)