The Registrar of Companies (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2009

Made: 4th September 2009

Laid before Parliament: 8th September 2009

Coming into force: 1st October 2009

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1063(1) to (3) of the Companies Act 2006[^f00001].

Citation and commencement

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These Regulations may be cited as the Registrar of Companies (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 and come into force on 1st October 2009.

Interpretation

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In these Regulations—

• “the 2006 Act” means the Companies Act 2006;

• “the Main Regulations” means the Registrar of Companies (Fees) (Companies, Overseas Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships) Regulations 2009[^f00002].

Interpretation of Main Regulations

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The Main Regulations are amended by inserting after regulation 2—

(2A) In these Regulations any reference to a “company” includes, where appropriate, a reference to a company to which section 1040 or 1043 of the 2006 Act applies.

Amendment to Regulation 4

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The Main Regulations are amended by inserting after regulation 4—

(4A) The fees prescribed in relation to paragraphs 7(a), 8(a) and 10(a) of Schedule 2 to these Regulations are not payable in respect of any month for which the applicant pays a fee to the registrar for subscription to Companies House Direct, Extranet or XML (those terms are defined in paragraph 1 of Schedule 2) under regulations providing for the payment of fees in respect of the functions of the registrar in relation to the inspection, or provision of copies, of documents kept by the registrar relating to European Economic Interest Groupings and limited partnerships.

Amendment to Schedule 1 to the Main Regulations

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The Main Regulations are amended by inserting after paragraph 7(a) of Schedule 1—

Signed

Davies of Abersoch — Minister for Trade, Investment and Business, — Department for Business, Innovation and Skills — 4

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend the Registrar of Companies (Fees) (Companies, Overseas Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2101) (“the Main Regulations”).

The Main Regulations are amended to extend the application of those Regulations to companies within section 1040 of the Companies Act 2006 (c.46) (“the Act”) (i.e. a company not formed under the Companies Acts but authorised to register), and unregistered companies under section 1043 of the Act. A fee is inserted into the Main Regulations for the registration of a company not formed under the Companies Acts but authorised to register. The amount of the fee is £20.

The Main Regulations are also amended to disapply the subscription fee payable under those Regulations for Companies House Direct, Extranet and XML, which provide inspection, or provision of copies, of documents kept by the registrar, where the subscription fee is paid under regulations relating to European Economic Interest Groupings and limited partnerships.

A regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for these Regulations.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2006 c.46.

[^f00002]: S.1 2009/2101.