{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-304",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-304.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/46",
  "legislation_title": "Companies Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006",
  "path": "section/304",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "304",
  "heading": "Directors' duty to call meetings required by members",
  "text": "(1) Directors required under section 303 to call a general meeting of the company must call a meeting—\n(a) within 21 days from the date on which they become subject to the requirement, and\n(b) to be held on a date not more than 28 days after the date of the notice convening the meeting.\n(2) If the requests received by the company identify a resolution intended to be moved at the meeting, the notice of the meeting must include notice of the resolution.\n(3) The business that may be dealt with at the meeting includes a resolution of which notice is given in accordance with this section.\n(4) If the resolution is to be proposed as a special resolution, the directors are treated as not having duly called the meeting if they do not give the required notice of the resolution in accordance with section 283.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 304 wholly in force at 1.10.2007; s. 304 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 1300; s. 304 in force at 1.10.2007 by S.I. 2007/2194, art. 2(1)(f) (with saving in art. 12 and subject to transitional adaptations specified in Sch. 1 and with transitional provisions and savings in Sch. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/46/section/304",
    "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."
}