Companies Act 1976
Companies Act 1976 (1976 c. 69)
- Companies Act 1976 (1976 c. 69)
- PART I Accounts, Accounting Records and Auditors
- Duty to prepare, lay and deliver accounts by reference to accounting reference periods
- 1 Duty to prepare, lay and deliver accounts by reference to accounting reference periods
- 2 Accounting reference period of a company
- 3 Alteration of accounting reference period
- 4 Penalties for not complying with section 1 within the period allowed for laying and delivering accounts
- 5 Default order in case of continued failure to comply with section 1(7) after the end of the period allowed for laying and delivering accounts
- 6 The period allowed for laying and delivering accounts
- 7 Transitional provisions and savings
- Group accounts
- 8 Group accounts
- Duty to prepare and deliver accounts in the case of oversea companies
- 9 Duty to prepare and deliver accounts in the case of oversea companies
- 10 Accounting reference period of oversea company
- 11 Penalty for not complying with section 9 within the period allowed for delivering accounts
- Accounting records
- 12 Accounting records
- Auditors
- 13 Qualifications of auditors
- 14 Appointment and removal of auditors
- 15 Supplementary provisions relating to appointment and removal of auditors
- 16 Resignation of auditors
- 17 Right of auditor who resigns to requisition meeting of company, etc.
- 18 Powers of auditors in relation to subsidiaries
- 19 False statements, etc. to auditors
- 20 Auditors of body which is both a company and a trade union, etc.
- PART II Miscellaneous and Supplementary
- Returns as to directors and registered office
- 21 Statement of first directors and secretary to be delivered on application for registration of company
- 22 Notification of changes in directors and secretary, etc.
- 23 Registered office of company
- Disclosure of interests in shares
- 24 Duty of director to notify company of acquisition, etc. of its securities
- 25 Duty of company to notify recognised stock exchange of acquisition, etc. of its securities by director
- 26 Duty to notify company of acquisition, etc. of voting shares
- 27 Power of company to require disclosure of beneficial interests in its voting shares
- Disqualification orders
- 28 Disqualification for persistent default in relation to delivery of documents to registrar
- 29 Register of disqualification orders
- Companies with registered offices in Wales
- 30 Companies with registered offices in Wales
- Regulation of names used by oversea companies for business purposes
- 31 Regulation of name under which oversea company may carry on business in Great Britain
- 32 Amendments of Registration of Business Names Act 1916
- Contents of prospectus
- 33 Contents of prospectus
- Forms, etc.
- 34 Use of prescribed forms for notices, etc. under Acts of 1948 and 1967
- 35 Size, durability and legibility of documents delivered to registrar
- 36 Power of registrar to accept information on microfilm, etc.
- Fees payable to registrar
- 37 Fees payable to registrar
- Functions of Secretary of State and registrar
- 38 Functions of Secretary of State and registrar
- Criminal proceedings and enforcement
- 39 Criminal proceedings and enforcement
- Supplementary provisions
- 40 Application of this Act to certain companies not formed under the Act of 1948
- 41 Application of certain provisions of this Act to unregistered companies
- 42 Minor and consequential amendments and repeals
- 43 Expenses
- 44 Interpretation
- 45 Short title, citation, commencement and extent. Schedules:
- SCHEDULES
- SCHEDULE 1 Prescribed Forms for Acts of 1948 and 1967
- SCHEDULE 2 Minor and Consequential Amendments
- The Companies Act 1948
- The Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act 1963
- The Protection of Depositors Act 1963
- The Companies Act 1967
- The Insurance Companies Act 1974
- The Stock Exchange (Completion of Bargains) Act 1976
- SCHEDULE 3 Repeals
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