Companies’ registered numbersU.K.
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.