{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-279L",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-279L.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/46",
  "legislation_title": "Companies Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006",
  "path": "section/279L",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "279L",
  "heading": "Firms all of whose partners are joint secretaries",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where—\n(a) all the members in a firm are joint secretaries (or proposed joint secretaries) of a company, and\n(b) the firm is not a legal person under the law by which it is governed.\n(2) Any requirement imposed by this Act to provide the required information about the members as joint secretaries (or proposed joint secretaries) may instead be satisfied by providing the information that would be required if the firm were a legal person and the firm had been appointed as secretary.",
  "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/279L",
    "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."
}