{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-forms-amendment-regulations-1987/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-forms-amendment-regulations-1987/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/752",
  "legislation_title": "The Companies (Forms) (Amendment) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-forms-amendment-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of sections 429(4) and 430(A)(3) of the Companies Act 1985, a notice to a holder of shares in the company shall be given to him, in the form prescribed by regulation 5(2), either personally or by sending it to him by post.\n(2) Where such a notice cannot be given personally or by post because the holder of the shares is the holder of a share warrant to bearer, the notice shall be given:—\n(a) in a case where the articles of association or the regulations of the company provide that notice to such holders of shares may be given by advertisement, by advertisement in the manner so provided, and\n(b) in any other case, by advertisement in the Gazette.\n(3) Where in accordance with paragraph (1) a notice is sent to a holder of shares by post it shall be sent to him:—\n(a) at his address in the United Kingdom registered in the books of the company;\n(b) if no such address is registered, to the address (if any) in the United Kingdom given by him to the company for the giving of notices to him; or\n(c) if no address in the United Kingdom is registered or has been so notified, to his address outside the United Kingdom registered in the books of the company.\n(4) Where in accordance with paragraph (1) a notice is sent to a holder of shares by post:—\n(a) if it is sent to an address in the United Kingdom, it shall be sent by recorded delivery; and\n(b) if it is sent to an address outside the United Kingdom it shall be sent by airmail, if that form of post is available.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 6, as substituted by section 172 of and Schedule 12 to the Financial Services Act 1986 (c. 60)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2007/1093",
      "affecting_title": "The Companies Act 2006 (Commencement No. 2, Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2007"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2007/1093",
      "affecting_title": "The Companies Act 2006 (Commencement No. 2, Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/752/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:27:39.045453+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."
}