The Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships (Filing Requirements) Regulations 2016

PART 1

1.  Schedule 1 to the Unregistered Companies Regulations 2009(1) is amended as follows.

2.  For paragraph 13 (annual return), substitute—

“Confirmation statement

13.— (1) Sections 853A to 853G and sections 853K and 853L of the Companies Act 2006 apply to unregistered companies.

(2) Section 853B (duties to notify a relevant event) applies to unregistered companies with the following modifications—

(a) omit paragraphs (b), (d), (f) and (g); and

(b) for paragraph (h) substitute—

“(h) in the case of a company which keeps any company records at a place other than its registered office, the duty under sections 162(4) and 275(4) to give notice of a change in the address of that place.”.

(3) Section 853C (duty to notify a change in company’s principal business activities) applies with the modification that in subsection (3), for “any prescribed system of classifying business activities.” substitute “the system of classifying business activities prescribed in regulation 7 of the Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships (Filing Requirements) Regulations 2016(2).”.

3.  In paragraph 19, in the modification of section 1078 of the Act—

(a) for the heading “Accounts and returns” substitute “Accounts and reports etc.”; and

(b) under that heading, for “The company’s annual return” substitute “Any confirmation statement delivered by the company.”.

(1)

S.I. 2009/2436, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

(2)

S.I. 2016/599.