von MEC am 03.07.2007, 11:29
Statutory Register
Die Führung der Statutory Register unterliegt den Company Secretary und müssen per Gestz am Firmensitz (Registered Office) hinterlegt werden und diese regelmäßig zu aktualisieren. Einträge können generell nicht gelöscht werden und sind mindesten 20 Jahre vorzuhalten.
Die Statutory Register können als kombiniertes Register (Combined Register) oder Einzelregister geführt werden, und beinhaltet folgende Registeraufzeichnungen:
Members / Shareholders (section 352, CA 1985)
(Gesellschafter)
Bei den Register of Members bzw. Register of Shareholders handelt es sich um eine Registerliste, in der Vor und Nachnamen und die aktuelle Anschriften aller Mitglieder/Aktionären hinterlegt werden und Anzahl der von ihnen gehaltenen Aktien (Shares). Eventuelle Änderungen durch Umzug oder Heirat sowie den Übertrag oder Neuausgabe von Aktien sind zu vermerken, dies gehört zu den gesetzlichen Mindestanforderungen.
Transfer
Das Register of Transfer (Aktientransferregister) ist nur dann zu führen wenn ein Inhaberwechsel vollzogen wurde.
Company Secretary (section 288, CA 1985)
(bestellter Schriftführer)
Das Register of Secretaries ist handelt es sich um eine Registerliste, in der Vor und Nachnamen und die aktuelle Anschriften aller Mitglieder/Aktionären hinterlegt werden. Eventuelle Änderungen durch Umzug oder Heirat ect. sind zu vermerken, dies gehört zu den gesetzlichen Mindestanforderungen.
Directors (section 288, CA 1985)
(bestellte Geschäftsführung)
Das Register of Directors sind zusätzliche Angaben zum Beruf und Nationalität erforderlich, die übrigen angaben entsprechen den obigen Register, dies gehört zu den gesetzlichen Mindestanforderungen.
Director's Interests
Diese Register ist nur dann zu führen wenn der fragliche Director für eine ander britische Kapitalgesellschaft tätig ist.
Register of interests disclosed
(Zinszuwendungen / Zinsbbekanntgaben)
Charges / Appointment (section 407, CA 1985)
(Änderungverzeichnis) dies gehört zu den gesetzlichen Mindestanforderungen.
Register of debenture holders
(Schuldverschreibung)
Companies Act 2006
113 - Register of members
(1) Every company must keep a register of its members.
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114 - Register to be kept available for inspection
(1) A company's register of members must be kept available for inspection-
(a) at its registered office, or
b) at a place specified in regulations under section 1136.
(2) A company must give notice to the registrar of the place where its register of members is kept available for inspection and of any change in that place.
(3) No such notice is required if the register has, at all times since it came into existence (or, in the case of a register in existence on the relevant date, at all times since then) been kept available for inspection at the company's registered office.
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162 - Register of directors
(1) Every company must keep a register of its directors.
2) The register must contain the required particulars (see sections 163, 164 and 166) of each person who is a director of the company.
(3) The register must be kept available for inspection-
(a) at the company's registered office, or
(b) at a place specified in regulations under section 1136.
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228 - Copy of contract or memorandum of terms to be available for inspection
(1) A company must keep available for inspection-
(a) a copy of every director's service contract with the company or with a subsidiary of the company, or
(b) if the contract is not in writing, a written memorandum setting out the terms of the contract.
(2) All the copies and memoranda must be kept available for inspection at-
(a) the company's registered office, or
(b) a place specified in regulations under section 1136.
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275 - Duty to keep register of secretaries
(1) A company must keep a register of its secretaries.
(2) The register must contain the required particulars (see sections 277 to 279) of the person who is, or persons who are, the secretary or joint secretaries of the company.
(3) The register must be kept available for inspection-
(a) at the company's registered office, or
(b) at a place specified in regulations under section 1136.
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355 - Records of resolutions and meetings etc
(1) Every company must keep records comprising-
(a) copies of all resolutions of members passed otherwise than at general meetings,
(b) minutes of all proceedings of general meetings, and
(c) details provided to the company in accordance with section 357 (decisions of sole member).
(2) The records must be kept for at least ten years from the date of the resolution, meeting or decision (as appropriate).
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356 - Records as evidence of resolutions etc
(1) This section applies to the records kept in accordance with section 355.
2) The record of a resolution passed otherwise than at a general meeting, if purporting to be signed by a director of the company or by the company secretary, is evidence (in Scotland, sufficient evidence) of the passing of the resolution.
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357 - Records of decisions by sole member
(1) This section applies to a company limited by shares or by guarantee that has only one member.
(2) Where the member takes any decision that-
(a) may be taken by the company in general meeting, and
(b) has effect as if agreed by the company in general meeting,
he must (unless that decision is taken by way of a written resolution) provide the company with details of that decision.
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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.
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743 - Register of debenture holders
(1) Any register of debenture holders of a company that is kept by the company must be kept available for inspection-
(a) at the company's registered office, or
b) at a place specified in regulations under section 1136.
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805 - Report to members on outcome of investigation
(1) On the conclusion of an investigation carried out by a company in pursuance of a requirement under section 803 the company must cause a report of the information received in pursuance of the investigation to be prepared.
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808 - Register of interests disclosed
1) The company must keep a register of information received by it in pursuance of a requirement imposed under section 793 (notice requiring information about interests in company's shares).
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1136 - Regulations about where certain company records to be kept available for inspection
(1) The Secretary of State may make provision by regulations specifying places other than a company's registered office at which company records required to be kept available for inspection under a relevant provision may be so kept in compliance with that provision.
section 114 (register of members);
section 162 (register of directors);
section 228 (directors' service contracts);
section 237 (directors' indemnities);
section 275 (register of secretaries);
section 358 (records of resolutions etc);
section 702 (contracts relating to purchase of own shares);
section 720 (documents relating to redemption or purchase of own shares out of capital by private company);
section 743 (register of debenture holders);
section 805 (report to members of outcome of investigation by public company into interests in its shares);
section 809 (register of interests in shares disclosed to public company);
section 877 (instruments creating charges and register of charges: England and Wales);
section 892 (instruments creating charges and register of charges: Scotland).
(3) The regulations may specify a place by reference to the company's principal place of business, the part of the United Kingdom in which the company is registered, the place at which the company keeps any other records available for inspection or in any other way.
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