Section 24 | Statement of compliance where amendment of articles restricted

(1)This section applies where a company's articles are subject—

(a)to provision for entrenchment, or

(b)to an order of a court or other authority restricting or excluding the company's power to amend the articles.

(2)If the company—

(a)amends its articles, and

(b)is required to send to the registrar a document making or evidencing the amendment,

the company must deliver with that document a statement of compliance.

(3)The statement of compliance required is a statement certifying that the amendment has been made in accordance with the company's articles and, where relevant, any applicable order of a court or other authority.

(4)The registrar may rely on the statement of compliance as sufficient evidence of the matters stated in it.