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Companies Act 2006

Chapter 3 Overseas branch registers

  • Section 129 Overseas branch registers
  • Section 130 Notice of opening of overseas branch register
  • Section 131 Keeping of overseas branch register
  • Section 132 Register or duplicate to be kept available for inspection in UK
  • Section 133 Transactions in shares registered in overseas branch register
  • Section 134 Jurisdiction of local courts
  • Section 135 Discontinuance of overseas branch register
  1. Chapter 3 · Overseas branch registers
  2. Overseas branch registers

Section 129 | Overseas branch registers

From legislation.gov.uk

(1)A company having a share capital may, if it transacts business in a country or territory to which this Chapter applies, cause to be kept there a branch register of members resident there (an “overseas branch register”).

(2)This Chapter applies to—

(a)any part of Her Majesty's dominions outside the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, and

(b)the countries or territories listed below.

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BangladeshMalaysia
CyprusMalta
DominicaNigeria
The GambiaPakistan
GhanaSeychelles
GuyanaSierra Leone
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of ChinaSingapore
IndiaSouth Africa
IrelandSri Lanka
KenyaSwaziland
KiribatiTrinidad and Tobago
LesothoUganda
MalawiZimbabwe

(3)The Secretary of State may make provision by regulations as to the circumstances in which a company is to be regarded as keeping a register in a particular country or territory.

(4)Regulations under this section are subject to negative resolution procedure.

(5)References—

(a)in any Act or instrument (including, in particular, a company's articles) to a dominion register, or

(b)in articles registered before 1st November 1929 to a colonial register,

are to be read (unless the context otherwise requires) as a reference to an overseas branch register kept under this section.

(6)RepealedF1

Notes

  1. F1

    S. 129(6) omitted (26.10.2023 for specified purposes, 26.1.2026 in so far as not already in force) by virtue of Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (c. 56), s. 219(1)(2)(b), Sch. 1 para. 4; S.I. 2026/57, reg. 2

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