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Companies Act 2006

Crossheading Duty to notify registrar of person ceasing to be person with significant control etc

  • Section 790LF Duty to notify registrar when person ceases to have significant control
  • Section 790LG Notification of someone not becoming person with significant control on incorporation
  • Section 790LH Duty to notify registrar if company has no persons with significant control
  • Section 790LI Power to create further duties to notify information
  • Section 790LJ Persons with significant control: offence of failure to notify
  • Section 790LK Power of court to order company to remedy defaults or delay
  • Section 790LL Information as to whether information has been delivered
  1. Duty to notify registrar of person ceasing to be person with significant control etc
  2. Persons with significant control: offence of failure to notify

Section 790LJ | Persons with significant control: offence of failure to notify F1F2

From legislation.gov.uk

(1)If a company fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with section 790LA, 790LC, 790LD, 790LE, 790LF, 790LG or 790LH, or regulations under section 790LI, an offence is committed by—

(a)the company, and

(b)every officer of the company who is in default.

(2)For this purpose a shadow director is treated as an officer of the company.

(3)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.

Notes

  1. F1

    Pt. 21A inserted (26.5.2015 for specified purposes, 6.4.2016 except for the insertion of ss. 790M(9)(c), 790W-790ZE and 30.6.2016 so far as not already in force) by Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (c. 26), s. 164(1), Sch. 3 para. 1; S.I. 2015/1329, reg. 3(a); S.I. 2015/2029, regs. 4(a), 5(a)

  2. F2

    Pt. 21A Ch. 2A inserted (26.10.2023 for specified purposes, 4.3.2024 for the insertion of s. 790LD for specified purposes, 18.11.2025 in force in so far as not already in force, except for the insertion of s. 790LB(2)(3) and s. 790LB(4) for specified purposes) by Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (c. 56), s. 219(1)(2)(b), Sch. 2 para. 18; S.I. 2024/269, reg. 2(z10); S.I. 2025/1118, reg. 2(1)(i)(4) (with reg. 7)

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