{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-555",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-555.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/46",
  "legislation_title": "Companies Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006",
  "path": "section/555",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "555",
  "heading": "Return of allotment by limited company",
  "text": "(1) This section applies to a company limited by shares and to a company limited by guarantee and having a share capital.\n(2) The company must, within one month of making an allotment of shares, deliver to the registrar for registration a return of the allotment.\n(3) The return must—\n(a) contain the prescribed information, and\n(b) be accompanied by a statement of capital.\n(4) The statement of capital must state with respect to the company's share capital at the date to which the return is made up—\n(a) the total number of shares of the company,\n(b) the aggregate nominal value of those shares,\n(ba) the aggregate amount (if any) unpaid on those shares (whether on account of their nominal value or by way of premium), and\n(c) for each class of shares—\n(i) prescribed particulars of the rights attached to the shares,\n(ii) the total number of shares of that class, and\n(iii) the aggregate nominal value of shares of that class, ...\n(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 555(4)(ba) inserted (30.6.2016) by Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (c. 26), s. 164(1), Sch. 6 para. 5(a); S.I. 2016/321, reg. 6(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 555(4)(d) and word omitted (30.6.2016) by virtue of Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (c. 26), s. 164(1), Sch. 6 para. 5(b); S.I. 2016/321, reg. 6(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 555 wholly in force at 1.10.2009; s. 555 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 1300; s. 555 in force for specified purposes at 20.1.2007 by S.I. 2006/3428, art. 3(3) (subject to art. 5, Sch. 1 and with arts. 6, 8, Sch. 5); s. 555 otherwise in force at 1.10.2009 by S.I. 2008/2860, art. 3(k) (with arts. 5, 7, 8, Sch. 2) (as amended by S.I. 2009/1802, art. 18)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/46/section/555",
    "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."
}