The Registrar of Companies and Applications for Striking Off Regulations 2009

Permitted characters and symbols for names and addresses in documents delivered to the registrar U.K.

8.—(1) The characters and symbols specified in paragraph (3) are permitted for the purposes of section 1108(1) of the Companies Act 2006 (and names and addresses in documents delivered to the registrar must therefore contain only those characters and symbols).

(2) But the requirement in section 1108(1) does not apply to the following documents—

(a) a memorandum of association;

(b) a company's articles;

(c) an order made by a competent court in the United Kingdom or elsewhere;

(d) an agreement required to be forwarded to the registrar under Chapter 3 of Part 3 of the Companies Act 2006 (agreements affecting a company's constitution);

(e) a valuation report required to be delivered to the registrar under section 94(2)(d) of that Act;

(f) a document required to be delivered to the registrar under section 400(2)(e) or section 401(2)(f) of that Act (company included in accounts of larger group: required to deliver copy of group accounts) M1 ;

(g) an instrument or copy instrument F1 ... delivered to the registrar under Part 25 of that Act (company charges) M2 ;

(h) a certified copy of the constitution of an overseas company required to be delivered to the registrar under regulation 8, 14 or 15 of the Overseas Companies Regulations 2009;

(i) a copy of accounting documents of an overseas company required to be delivered to the registrar under regulation 9, 32, 45 or 46 of those Regulations;

(j) a copy of the annual accounts of an overseas company, or of a credit or financial institution to which Chapter 2 of Part 6 of the Overseas Companies Regulations 2009 applies, required to be delivered to the registrar under section 441 of the Companies Act 2006 M3 ;

[F2 (k) a contract for the formation of a [F3 UK ] Economic Interest Grouping;

(l) an amendment to such a contract];

[F4 (m) documents specified in respect of any of the Forms mentioned in regulations 5 to 11 of the European Public Limited-Liability Company Regulations 2004 (provisions relating to registration etc);

(n) copies of transfer proposals required to be delivered under regulation 68(1)(a) of those Regulations (publication of terms of transfer);

(o) copies of draft terms required to be delivered under regulation 68(2)(a) or (3)(a) of those Regulations (publication of terms for formation of holding SE or conversion of company into SE);

(p) copies of amendments to statutes required to be delivered under regulation 82(1)(a) of those Regulations (notification of amendments to statutes);

(q) documents required to be delivered F5 ... under regulation 85 of those Regulations (registration of a public company by conversion of SE);

(r) copies of draft terms required to be delivered under regulation 86 of those Regulations (publication of draft terms of conversion)];

[F6 (s) copies of the consolidated accounts, the auditor’s report and the consolidated annual report to be delivered to the registrar under sections 394A(2)(e), 448A(2)(e) or 479A(2)(e) of the Companies Act 2006 (qualifying subsidiaries: conditions for exemption from the audit, preparation and filing of individual accounts).]

(3) The characters and symbols specified in this paragraph are—

(a) those in the Schedule;

(b) full stops, commas, colons, semi-colons and hyphens;

(c) the numerals 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9.

(4) In this regulation the expressions “accounting documents”, “certified copy” and “constitution” have the meanings given in the Overseas Companies Regulations 2009.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 8(2)(g) omitted (6.4.2013) by virtue of The Companies Act 2006 (Amendment of Part 25) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/600), reg. 1, Sch. 2 para. 6(2) (with reg. 6)

F2 Reg. 8(2)(k)(l) inserted (1.10.2009) by The European Economic Interest Grouping (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2399), regs. 1(2), 24 (with reg. 2)

F3 Word in reg. 8(2)(k) substituted (31.12.2020) by The European Economic Interest Grouping (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1299), regs. 1, 65; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F4 Reg. 8(2)(m)-(r) inserted (1.10.2009) by The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2400), regs. 1(2), 43 (with reg. 2)

F5 Words in reg. 8(q) omitted (1.10.2014) by virtue of The European Economic Interest Grouping and European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2382), regs. 1, 36

F6 Reg. 8(2)(s) added (with application in accordance with reg. 2 of the amending S.I.) by The Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships (Accounts and Audit Exemptions and Change of Accounting Framework) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/2301), regs. 1, 21(4)

Marginal Citations

M1 Sections 400 and 401 were applied to limited liability partnerships by regulation 10 of S.I. 2008/1911.

M2 Sections 860 to 892 in Part 25 were applied to limited liability partnerships by regulations 32 to 44 of S.I. 2009/1804.

M3 Section 441 was applied with modifications to overseas companies and to certain credit and financial institutions by, respectively, regulation 40 and regulation 55 of S.I. 2009/1801.