Statutory Instruments
COMPANIES
Made
13th August 1999
Laid before Parliament
17th August 1999
Coming into force
13th September 1999
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 365(1) of the Companies Act 1985(1), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Companies (Contents of Annual Return) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 13th September 1999.
2. In subsection (1) of section 364 of the Companies Act 1985 (contents of annual return: general) the following provisions are hereby repealed-
(a)in paragraph (e), sub-paragraph (ii) (requirement to list for individual directors their other directorships and former names) and the word "and" immediately preceding it,
(b)paragraph (f) (requirement to list for a corporate director its other directorships), and
(c)paragraph (i) (requirement to state whether elective resolutions under sections 252 or 366A of that Act are in force).
Kim Howells,
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Competition and Consumer Affairs,
Department of Trade and Industry
13th August 1999
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations repeal, with effect from 13th September 1999, certain provisions in section 364 of the Companies Act 1985 (which specifies information to be included in the annual return delivered to the registrar of companies under section 363 of the Act). The Regulations repeal the provisions requiring companies to list the other directorships and former names of individual directors, to list the other directorships of corporate directors, and requiring private companies to state whether resolutions are in force enabling the company to dispense with the laying of accounts and reports before the company in general meeting, or to dispense with the holding of annual general meetings.
A Regulatory Impact Assessment in respect of these Regulations is available and a copy can be obtained from Companies House, Policy and Planning Directorate, First Floor, Crown Way, Cardiff CF14 3UZ. A copy has also been placed in the libraries of both Houses of Parliament.
1985 c. 6. Sections 363 to 365 of the Companies Act 1985 were substituted by section 139(1) of the Companies Act 1989 (c. 40).