# The Companies Act 2006 (Commencement No. 5, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2007, Paragraph 4: Company secretaries (ss.270 to 274 and 280)

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) A private company whose articles immediately before 6th April 2008 expressly required it to have a secretary is a company “with a secretary” for the purposes of section 270(2) until its articles are amended to remove the requirement.
(2) For this purpose a provision—
(a) requiring or authorising things to be done by or in relation to a secretary, or
(b) as to the manner in which, or terms on which, a secretary is to be appointed or removed,
is not a provision expressly requiring the company to have a secretary.

---
Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/3495/schedule/4/paragraph/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006-commencement-no-5-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2007/schedule-4/paragraph-4
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.