{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-279I",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-279I.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/46",
  "legislation_title": "Companies Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006",
  "path": "section/279I",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "279I",
  "heading": "Notification of changes occurring before company’s incorporation",
  "text": "(1) A company must give notice to the registrar if—\n(a) a person named in the statement under section 12 as the proposed secretary of the company did not become the secretary on its incorporation, or\n(b) a person named in the statement under section 12 as one of the proposed joint secretaries of the company become did not become one of the joint secretaries on its incorporation.\n(2) A company must give notice to the registrar of any change in the required information about a proposed secretary, or one of the proposed joint secretaries, that occurred—\n(a) after the application for the company’s registration under section 9 was delivered to the registrar, but\n(b) before the company was incorporated.\n(3) But a company is not required to give notice under subsection (2) in respect of a person if it gives notice under subsection (1) in respect of the person.\n(4) A notice under subsection (2) must specify the date on which the change occurred.\n(5) A notice under this section must be given within the period of 14 days beginning with the day on which the company was incorporated.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 279G 279M and cross-heading inserted (26.10.2023 for specified purposes, 4.3.2024 for the insertion of ss. 279H, 279J, 279K for specified purposes, 18.11.2025 in so far as not already in force, except for the insertion of s. 279K(1)(c)) by Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (c. 56), s. 219(1)(2)(b), Sch. 2 para. 6; S.I. 2024/269, reg. 2(z10); S.I. 2025/1118, reg. 2(1)(i)(4) (with reg. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 279G-279M applied (with modifications) (18.11.2025) by S.I. 2009/2436, Sch. 1 para. 8 (as substituted by The Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships (Annotations, Application and Modification of Company Law and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1116), regs. 1(2), 5(3); S.I. 2025/1118, reg. 2(g))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Ss. 279G-279M applied (18.11.2025) by S.I. 2009/2436, Sch. 1 para. 8 (as substituted by The Companies Authorised to Register, Unregistered Companies and Overseas Companies (Application of Company Law) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/761), regs. 1(3), 3(3) (with regs. 5, 6))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/46/section/279I",
    "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."
}