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22.—(1) The registrar may strike a company’s name off the register if the company has failed to comply with regulation 20.
(2) The registrar may not exercise the power in paragraph (1) unless, after that failure—
(a)the registrar has published a notice in the Gazette that, at the end of the period of 2 months beginning with the date of the notice, the name of the company mentioned in the notice will be struck off the register and the company will be dissolved unless, before the end of that period, the company gives a notice in accordance with section 87 of the Act to change the address of its registered office to a new address or an objection is received by the registrar which satisfies the registrar that it is not appropriate to strike the company’s name off the register, and
(b)the period mentioned in paragraph (a) has expired.
(3) If the registrar exercises the power in paragraph (1), the registrar must publish a notice in the Gazette of the company’s name having been struck off the register.
(4) On the publication of the notice in the Gazette the company is dissolved.
(5) However—
(a)the liability (if any) of every director, managing officer and member of the company continues and may be enforced as if the company had not been dissolved, and
(b)nothing in this paragraph affects the power of the court to wind up a company the name of which has been struck off the register.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Regs. 2-23 applied (with modifications) (4.3.2024) by 2006 c. 46, s. 1097A (as modified by S.I. 2009/1804, reg. 67 (as amended by S.I. 2024/234, regs. 1(2), 39; S.I. 2024/269, reg. 2(a))
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 22 in force at 4.3.2024, see reg. 1(2); S.I. 2024/269, reg. 2(z42)
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