PART 3AMENDMENTS TO PART 27 OF THE COMPANIES ACT 2006

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1

Section 926 (inspection of documents (division)) is amended as follows.

2

In subsection (3), omit “and” at the end of paragraph (d) and after paragraph (e) add—

; and

f

if no statement is required by section 925 because the company has made public a recent half-yearly financial report (see subsection (1A) of that section), that report. 

3

After subsection (3) insert—

3A

The requirement in subsection (1)(a) is subject to section 926A(1) (publication of documents on company website).

4

In subsection (4), after “section 933 (agreement to dispense with reports etc)” insert “, section 933A (certain requirements excluded where shareholders given proportional rights)”.

5

At the end add—

5

Section 1145 (right to hard copy) does not apply to a document sent or supplied in accordance with subsection (1)(b) to a member who has consented to information being sent or supplied by the company by electronic means and has not revoked that consent.

6

Part 4 of Schedule 5 (communications by means of a website) does not apply for the purposes of subsection (1)(b) (but see section 926A(5)).