# Companies Act 1985, Section 703: Penalty for non-compliance.

Extent: E+W+S

(1) If the requirements of section 702(1) are not complied with before the end of the period allowed for delivering accounts and reports, or if the accounts and reports delivered do not comply with the requirements of this Act, the company and every person who immediately before the end of that period was a director of the company is guilty of an offence and liable to a fine and, for continued contravention, to a daily default fine.
(2) It is a defence for a person charged with such an offence to prove that he took all reasonable steps for securing that the requirements in question would be complied with.
(3) It is not a defence in relation to a failure to deliver copies to the registrar to prove that the documents in question were not in fact prepared as required by this Act.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/6/section/703 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-1985/section-703
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