{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-129",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-129.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/46",
  "legislation_title": "Companies Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006",
  "path": "section/129",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "129",
  "heading": "Overseas branch registers",
  "text": "(1) A company having a share capital may, if it transacts business in a country or territory to which this Chapter applies, cause to be kept there a branch register of members resident there (an “overseas branch register”).\n(2) This Chapter applies to—\n(a) any part of Her Majesty's dominions outside the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, and\n(b) the countries or territories listed below.\nBangladesh\nMalaysia\nCyprus\nMalta\nDominica\nNigeria\nThe Gambia\nPakistan\nGhana\nSeychelles\nGuyana\nSierra Leone\nThe Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China\nSingapore\nIndia\nSouth Africa\nIreland\nSri Lanka\nKenya\nSwaziland\nKiribati\nTrinidad and Tobago\nLesotho\nUganda\nMalawi\nZimbabwe\n(3) The Secretary of State may make provision by regulations as to the circumstances in which a company is to be regarded as keeping a register in a particular country or territory.\n(4) Regulations under this section are subject to negative resolution procedure.\n(5) References—\n(a) in any Act or instrument (including, in particular, a company's articles) to a dominion register, or\n(b) in articles registered before 1st November 1929 to a colonial register,\nare to be read (unless the context otherwise requires) as a reference to an overseas branch register kept under this section.\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 129(6) omitted (26.10.2023 for specified purposes, 26.1.2026 in so far as not already in force) by virtue of Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (c. 56), s. 219(1)(2)(b), Sch. 1 para. 4; S.I. 2026/57, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 129 wholly in force at 1.10.2009; s. 129 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 1300; s. 129 in force for specified purposes at 20.1.2007 by S.I. 2006/3428, art. 3(3) (subject to art. 5, Sch. 1 and with arts. 6, 8, Sch. 5); s. 129 otherwise in force at 1.10.2009 by S.I. 2008/2860, art. 3(h) (with arts. 5, 7, 8, Sch. 2) (as amended by S.I. 2009/1802, art. 18)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/46/section/129",
    "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."
}