Companies Act 2006 - Proposed timetable for implementation
Please note that the timetable has changed. Many
of the provisions expected to be implemented on 1st.
October 2008 have been deferred to 1st. October 2009.
For details go to Newsletter 2007 - 07
Links
Companies Act 2006,
article 01, Parts 1-7
Companies Act 2006,
article 02, Parts 8-11
Companies Act 2006,
article 03, Parts 12-13
Text
of the Act on IPSO website
Introduction
Provisions implemented
by April 2007
Provisions implemented in October
2007
A list of all parts and
chapters
Company Law Club new
legislation section (for commencement orders, etc)
DTI
website
Companies Act 2006 proposed Timetable for implementation (after April 2007)
Click here for provisions in force in April 2007
With effect from 1 October 2007:
Part 9 (Exercise of members' rights).
(To enable nominee investment operators to send indirect investors' requests
to companies from 1 October to entitle indirect investors to enjoy information
rights from 31 December 2007.)
Part 10 (A company's directors)
(other than provisions relating to directors' conflict of interest duties, directors'
residential addresses and underage and natural directors)
Part 11 (Derivative claims and proceedings by members);
Part 13 (Resolutions and meetings), and, related to this, sections 485-
Sec488 of Part 16 (Audit);
Part 14 (Control of political donations and expenditure);
Sec417 of Part 15 (Contents of directors' report: business review);
Part 29 (Fraudulent trading);
Part 30 (Protection of members against unfair prejudice);
Part 32 (Company investigations: amendments).
With effect from 6 April 2008:
Part 12 (Company secretaries);
Part 15 (Accounts and reports), other than sect417;
Part 16 (Audit), other than sections 485-488;
Part 19 (Debentures);
Part 20 (Private and public companies);
Part 21 (Certification and transfer of securities);
Part 23 (Distributions);
Part 26 (Arrangements and reconstructions);
Part 27 (Mergers and divisions of public companies);
Part 42 (Statutory auditors).
With effect from 1 October 2009 (or possibly earlier
in some cases. This is subject o consultation and a
further announcement is expected in December 2007):
Part 1 (General introductory provisions);
Part 2 (Company formation);
Part 3 (A company's constitution);
Part 4 (A company's capacity and related matters);
Part 5 (A company's name);
Part 6 (A company's registered office);
Part 7 (Re-registration as a means of altering a company's status);
Part 8 (A company's members);
Part 10 (A company's directors) - provisions relating to directors' conflict
of interest duties, directors' residential addresses and underage and natural
directors
Part 17 (A company's share capital);
Part 18 (Acquisition by limited company of its own shares);
Part 24 (A company's annual return);
Part 25 (Company charges);
Part 31 (Dissolution and restoration to the register);
Part 33 (UK companies not formed under the Companies Acts);
Part 34 (Overseas companies);
Part 35 (The registrar of companies);
Part 41 (Business names).
Sec358 of the Companies Act 1985, which provides a power for companies to close
the register of members, will be repealed with effect from 1 October 2008.
Part 36 (Offences under the Companies Acts), Part 37 (Companies: supplementary
provisions), Part 38 (Companies: interpretation), Part 45 (Northern Ireland)
and Schedule 16 (Repeals) should come in with the relevant provisions.
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