Section 528 | Requirements as to website availability

(1)The following provisions apply for the purposes of section 527 (website publication of members' statement of audit concerns).

(2)The information must be made available on a website that—

(a)is maintained by or on behalf of the company, and

(b)identifies the company in question.

(3)Access to the information on the website, and the ability to obtain a hard copy of the information from the website, must not be conditional on the payment of a fee or otherwise restricted.

(4)The statement—

(a)must be made available within three working days of the company being required to publish it on a website, and

(b)must be kept available until after the meeting to which it relates.

(5)A failure to make information available on a website throughout the period specified in subsection (4)(b) is disregarded if—

(a)the information is made available on the website for part of that period, and

(b)the failure is wholly attributable to circumstances that it would not be reasonable to have expected the company to prevent or avoid.