Section 358 | Inspection of records of resolutions and meetings

(1)The records referred to in section 355 (records of resolutions etc) relating to the previous ten years must be kept available for inspection—

(a)at the company's registered office, or

(b)at a place specified in regulations under section 1136.

(2)The company must give notice to the registrar—

(a)of the place at which the records are kept available for inspection, and

(b)of any change in that place,

unless they have at all times been kept at the company's registered office.

(3)The records must be open to the inspection of any member of the company without charge.

(4)Any member may require a copy of any of the records on payment of such fee as may be prescribed.

(5)If default is made for 14 days in complying with subsection (2) or an inspection required under subsection (3) is refused, or a copy requested under subsection (4) is not sent, an offence is committed by every officer of the company who is in default.

(6)A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale and, for continued contravention, a daily default fine not exceeding one-tenth of level 3 on the standard scale.

(7)In a case in which an inspection required under subsection (3) is refused or a copy requested under subsection (4) is not sent, the court may by order compel an immediate inspection of the records or direct that the copies required be sent to the persons who requested them.