Section 35 Size, durability and legibility of documents delivered to registrar
For the purposes of securing that documents delivered to the registrar of companies under the provisions of the Companies Acts are of standard size, durable and easily legible, regulations made by the Secretary of State by statutory instrument may prescribe such requirements (whether as to size, weight, quality or colour of paper, size, type or colouring of lettering, or otherwise) as he may consider appropriate; and different requirements may be so prescribed for different documents or classes of documents.
If under any such provision there is delivered to the registrar of companies a document (whether being an original document or a copy) which in the opinion of the registrar does not comply with such requirements prescribed under this section as are applicable to it, the registrar may serve on any person by whom under that provision the document was required to be delivered (or, if there are two or more such persons, may serve on any of them) a notice stating his opinion to that effect and indicating the requirements so prescribed with which in his opinion the document does not comply.
Where the registrar of companies serves a notice under subsection (2) above with respect to a document delivered under any such provision, then, for the purposes of any enactment which enables a penalty to be imposed in respect of any omission to deliver to the registrar of companies a document required to be delivered under that provision (and, in particular, for the purposes of any such enactment whereby such a penalty may be imposed by reference to each day during which the omission continues)—
any duty imposed by that provision to deliver such a document to the registrar shall be treated as not having been discharged by the delivery of that document; but
no account shall be taken of any days falling within the period mentioned in subsection (4) below.
The period referred to in subsection (3)(b) above is the period beginning with the day on which the document was delivered to the registrar as mentioned in subsection (2) above and ending with the fourteenth day after the date of service of the notice under subsection (2) above by virtue of which subsection (3) above applies.
In this section any reference to delivering a document shall be construed as including a reference to sending, forwarding, producing or (in the case of a notice) giving it.