Section 280 Acts done by person in dual capacity
A provision requiring or authorising a thing to be done by or to a director and the secretary of a company is not satisfied by its being done by or to the same person acting both as director and as, or in place of, the secretary.
Notes on Part 12
Modifications
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Pts. 1-39 modified (31.12.2020) by Regulation (EC) No. 2157/2001, Art. AAA1(3) (as inserted by The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1298), regs. 1, 97 (with regs. 140-145) (as amended by S.I. 2020/523, regs. 1(2), 5(a)-(f)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1))
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Pts. 1-39 (except for Pt. 7 and ss. 662-669), 45-47 extended (12.5.2011) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1265), art. 5(1), Sch. 1 para. 2
Notes on Person acting in dual capacity
Textual amendments
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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)