{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-1080",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-1080.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/46",
  "legislation_title": "Companies Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006",
  "path": "section/1080",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1080",
  "heading": "The register",
  "text": "(1) The registrar shall continue to keep records of—\n(a) the information contained in documents delivered to the registrar under any enactment,, and\n(b) certificates issued by the registrar under any enactment.\n(2) The records relating to companies are referred to collectively in the Companies Acts as “the register”.\n(3) Information deriving from an enhanced disclosure document (see section 1078) delivered to the registrar, must be kept by the registrar in electronic form.\n(4) Subject to that, information contained in documents delivered to the registrar may be recorded and kept in any form the registrar thinks fit, provided it is possible to inspect it and produce a copy of it.\nThis is sufficient compliance with any duty of the registrar to keep, file or register the document or to record the information contained in it.\n(5) The records kept by the registrar must be such that information relating to a company or other registered body is associated with that body, in such manner as the registrar may determine, so as to enable all the information relating to the body to be retrieved.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 1080(1)(b) and word substituted for s. 1080(1)(b)(c) (1.10.2009) by The Companies Act 2006 (Part 35) (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1802), art. 10(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 1080(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Companies, Limited Liability Partnerships and Partnerships (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/348), reg. 2, Sch. 1 para. 20; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 1080(5) inserted (1.10.2009) by The Companies Act 2006 (Part 35) (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1802), art. 10(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 1080(5) substituted (1.10.2009) by The Companies Act 2006 (Part 35) (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1802), art. 10(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 1080(5) substituted (1.10.2009) by The Companies Act 2006 (Part 35) (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1802), art. 10(3)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 1080 applied (15.12.2007) by The Companies (Cross-Border Mergers) Regulations (S.I. 2007/2974), {reg. 19(4)(d)}"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 1080 applied (15.12.2007) by The Companies (Cross-Border Mergers) Regulations (S.I. 2007/2974), {reg. 12(6)(b)}"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 1080 applied (with modifications) (4.3.2024) by S.I. 2009/1804, reg. 63A (as inserted by The Limited Liability Partnerships (Application of Company Law) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/234), regs. 1(2), 27; S.I. 2024/269, reg. 2(a))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "S. 1080(1) applied (1.10.2009) by The Limited Liability Partnerships (Application of Companies Act 2006) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1804), regs. 2, 60, 83, Sch. 1 para. 27"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "S. 1080(1) applied (with modifications) (1.10.2009) by The Unregistered Companies Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2436), regs. 3-5, Sch. 1 para. 17(2)(d) (with transitional provisions and savings in regs. 7, 9, Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "S. 1080(2) applied (with modifications) (1.10.2009) by The Unregistered Companies Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2436), regs. 3-5, Sch. 1 para. 20(1)(a) (with transitional provisions and savings in regs. 7, 9, Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "S. 1080(2) applied (with modifications) (18.11.2025) by S.I. 2017/694, reg. 58A (as inserted by The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (Consequential, Incidental and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1037), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 6(3); S.I. 2025/1118, reg. 2(1)(g))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "S. 1080(4)(5) applied (1.10.2009) by The Limited Liability Partnerships (Application of Companies Act 2006) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1804), regs. 2, 60, 83, Sch. 1 para. 27"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C9",
      "text": "S. 1080(4) applied (with modifications) (1.10.2009) by The Unregistered Companies Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2436), regs. 3-5, Sch. 1 para. 20(1)(a) (with transitional provisions and savings in regs. 7, 9, Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C10",
      "text": "S. 1080(4)(5) applied (with modifications) (1.10.2009) by The Unregistered Companies Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2436), regs. 3-5, Sch. 1 para. 17(2)(d) (with transitional provisions and savings in regs. 7, 9, Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 1080 wholly in force at 1.1.2007, see s. 1300 and S.I. 2006/3428, art. 2(1)(e) (subject to art. 5, Sch. 1 and with arts. 6, 8, Sch. 5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/46/section/1080",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:13:40.060156+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}