Section 652A Registrar may strike private company off register on application.F1C1
England, Wales and Scotland
On application by a private company, the registrar of companies may strike the company’s name off the register.
An application by a company under this section shall—
be made on its behalf by its directors or by a majority of them,
be in the prescribed form, and
contain the prescribed information.
The registrar shall not strike a company off under this section until after the expiration of 3 months from the publication by him in the Gazette of a notice—
stating that he may exercise his power under this section in relation to the company, and
inviting any person to show cause why he should not do so.
Where the registrar strikes a company off under this section, he shall publish notice of that fact in the Gazette.
On the publication in the Gazette of a notice under subsection (4), the company to which the notice relates is dissolved.
However, the liability (if any) of every director, managing officer and member of the company continues and may be enforced as if the company had not been dissolved.
Nothing in this section affects the power of the court to wind up a company the name of which has been struck off the register.
Annotations
Textual amendments
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Ss. 652A-652F inserted (1.7.1995) by 1994 c. 40, s. 13(1), Sch. 5 para. 2; S.I. 1995/1433, arts. 2, 3(a)
Modifications
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S. 652A applied (with modifications) (6.4.2001) by S.I. 2001/1090, reg. 4, Sch. 2 Pt. I
Notes on Part XX
Modifications
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Pt. 20 modified (24.3.2003) by Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (c. 29), ss. {426(10)(b)}, 458(1)(3); S.I. 2003/333,{art. 2}, Sch. (as amended by S.I. 2003/531)
Notes on Chapter VI
Textual amendments
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Ss. 651-706 repealed (1.10.2009) by Companies Act 2006 (c. 46), ss. 1295, 1300, Sch. 16; S.I. 2008/2860, art. 4, Sch. 1 (with arts. 5, 7, 8, Sch. 2 (as amended by S.I. 2009/1802, art. 18, Sch.))