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Legislation
Companies Act 2006
  • Introduction
  • Part 1 General introductory provisions
  • Part 2 Company formation
  • Part 3 A company's constitution
  • Part 4 A company's capacity and related matters
  • Part 5 A company's name
  • Part 6 A company's registered office and email address
  • Part 7 Re-registration as a means of altering a company's status
  • Part 8 A company's members
  • Part 9 Exercise of members' rights
  • Part 10 A company's directors
  • Part 11 Derivative claims and proceedings by members
  • Part 12 Company secretaries
  • Part 13 Resolutions and meetings
  • Part 14 Control of political donations and expenditure
  • Part 15 Accounts and reports
  • Part 16 Audit
  • Part 17 A company's share capital
  • Part 18 Acquisition by limited company of its own shares
  • Part 19 Debentures
  • Part 20 Private and public companies
  • Part 21 Certification and transfer of securities
  • PART 21A Information about people with significant control
  • Part 22 Information about interests in a company's shares
  • Part 23 Distributions
  • PART 24 Annual confirmation of accuracy of information on register
  • Part 25 Company charges
  • Part 26 Arrangements and reconstructions: general
  • PART 26A Arrangements and reconstructions: companies in financial difficulty
  • Part 27 Mergers and divisions of public companies
  • Part 28 Takeovers etc
  • Part 29 Fraudulent trading
  • Part 30 Protection of members against unfair prejudice
  • Part 31 Dissolution and restoration to the register
  • Part 32 Company investigations: amendments
  • Part 33 UK companies not formed under companies legislation
  • Part 34 Overseas companies
  • Part 35 The registrar of companies
  • Part 36 Offences under the Companies Acts and financial penalties
  • Part 37 Companies: supplementary provisions
  • Part 38 Companies: interpretation
  • Part 39 Companies: minor amendments
  • Part 40 Company directors: foreign disqualification etc
  • Part 41 Business names
  • Part 42 Statutory Auditors
  • Part 43 Transparency obligations and related matters
  • Part 44 Miscellaneous provisions
  • Part 45 Northern Ireland
  • Part 46 General supplementary provisions
  • Part 47 Final provisions
  • SCHEDULE 1 Connected persons: references to an interest in shares or debentures
  • SCHEDULE 1A References to people with significant control over a company
  • SCHEDULE 1B Enforcement of disclosure requirements
  • SCHEDULE 1C Rules of the Takeover Panel: general principles and other provision
  • SCHEDULE 2 Specified persons, descriptions of disclosures etc for the purposes of section 948
  • SCHEDULE 3 Amendments of remaining provisions of the Companies Act 1985 relating to offences
  • SCHEDULE 4 Documents and information sent or supplied to a company
  • SCHEDULE 5 Communications by a company
  • SCHEDULE 6 Meaning of “subsidiary” etc: supplementary provisions
  • SCHEDULE 7 Parent and subsidiary undertakings: supplementary provisions
  • SCHEDULE 8 Index of defined expressions
  • SCHEDULE 9 Removal of special provisions about accounts and audit of charitable companies
  • SCHEDULE 10 Recognised supervisory bodies
  • SCHEDULE 11 Recognised professional qualifications
  • SCHEDULE 11A Specified persons, descriptions, disclosures etc for the purposes of section 1224A
  • SCHEDULE 12 Arrangements in which registered third country auditors are required to participate
  • SCHEDULE 13 Supplementary provisions with respect to delegation order
  • SCHEDULE 14 Statutory auditors: consequential amendments
  • SCHEDULE 15 Transparency obligations and related matters: minor and consequential amendments
  • SCHEDULE 16 Repeals
  1. UK legislation
  2. Companies Act 2006

Companies Act 2006

From legislation.gov.uk

An Act to reform company law and restate the greater part of the enactments relating to companies; to make other provision relating to companies and other forms of business organisation; to make provision about directors' disqualification, business names, auditors and actuaries; to amend Part 9 of the Enterprise Act 2002; and for connected purposes.

[8th November 2006]

Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

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