{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-319A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-319A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/46",
  "legislation_title": "Companies Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006",
  "path": "section/319A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "319A",
  "heading": "Traded companies: questions at meetings",
  "text": "(1) At a general meeting of a traded company, the company must cause to be answered any question relating to the business being dealt with at the meeting put by a member attending the meeting.\n(2) No such answer need be given—\n(a) if to do so would—\n(i) interfere unduly with the preparation for the meeting, or\n(ii) involve the disclosure of confidential information;\n(b) if the answer has already been given on a website in the form of an answer to a question; or\n(c) if it is undesirable in the interests of the company or the good order of the meeting that the question be answered.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 319A inserted (3.8.2009) by The Companies (Shareholders' Rights) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1632), reg. 12(1) (with application as stated in reg. 1(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/46/section/319A",
    "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."
}