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Companies Act 2006

Crossheading Notification of information about secretaries

  • Section 279G Duty to notify registrar of change in secretary or joint secretary
  • Section 279H Duty to notify registrar of changes of information
  • Section 279I Notification of changes occurring before company’s incorporation
  • Section 279J Required information about a secretary etc: individuals
  • Section 279K Required information about a secretary etc: corporate secretaries and firms
  • Section 279L Firms all of whose partners are joint secretaries
  • Section 279M Secretary or joint secretary: offence of failure to notify of changes
  1. Notification of information about secretaries
  2. Duty to notify registrar of change in secretary or joint secretary

Section 279G | Duty to notify registrar of change in secretary or joint secretary F1

From legislation.gov.uk

(1)A company must give notice to the registrar if a person—

(a)becomes the secretary or one of the joint secretaries of the company, or

(b)ceases to be the secretary or one of the joint secretaries of the company.

(2)The notice must specify the date on which the person became or ceased to be the secretary or one of the joint secretaries of the company.

(3)A notice under subsection (1)(a) must contain—

(a)a statement of the required information about the secretary or joint secretary (see sections 279J and 279K), and

(b)a statement by the company that the person has consented to act in that capacity.

(4)Subsection (1)(a) does not require a company, on its incorporation, to give notice in relation to a person named as the proposed secretary or one of the proposed joint secretaries of the company in the statement under section 12.

(5)A notice under this section must be given within the period of 14 days beginning with the day on which the person becomes or ceases to be the secretary or a joint secretary.

Notes

  1. F1

    S. 279G 279M and cross-heading inserted (26.10.2023 for specified purposes, 4.3.2024 for the insertion of ss. 279H, 279J, 279K for specified purposes, 18.11.2025 in so far as not already in force, except for the insertion of s. 279K(1)(c)) by Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (c. 56), s. 219(1)(2)(b), Sch. 2 para. 6; S.I. 2024/269, reg. 2(z10); S.I. 2025/1118, reg. 2(1)(i)(4) (with reg. 6)

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