{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-337",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-337.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/46",
  "legislation_title": "Companies Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006",
  "path": "section/337",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "337",
  "heading": "Public companies and traded companies: notice of AGM",
  "text": "(1) A notice calling an annual general meeting of a public company or a private company that is a traded company must state that the meeting is an annual general meeting.\n(2) An annual general meeting of a public company that is not a traded company may be called by shorter notice than that required by section 307(2) or by the company's articles (as the case may be), if all the members entitled to attend and vote at the meeting agree to the shorter notice.\n(3) Where a notice calling an annual general meeting of a traded company is given more than 6 weeks before the meeting, the notice must include—\n(a) if the company is a public company, a statement of the right under section 338 to require the company to give notice of a resolution to be moved at the meeting, and\n(b) whether or not the company is a public company, a statement of the right under section 338A to require the company to include a matter in the business to be dealt with at the meeting.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 337(1) inserted (3.8.2009) by The Companies (Shareholders' Rights) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1632), reg. 16(2) (with application as stated in reg. 1(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 337(2) inserted (3.8.2009) by The Companies (Shareholders' Rights) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1632), reg. 16(3) (with application as stated in reg. 1(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 337(3) inserted (3.8.2009) by The Companies (Shareholders' Rights) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1632), reg. 16(4) (with application as stated in reg. 1(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 337 section heading inserted (3.8.2009) by The Companies (Shareholders' Rights) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1632), reg. 16(5) (with application as stated in reg. 1(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 337 wholly in force at 1.10.2007; s. 337 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 1300; s. 337 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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/46/section/337",
    "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."
}