Explanatory note

These Regulations prescribe forms for the purposes of the provisions referred to in them. These are new provisions which are inserted into the Companies Act 1985 by the Companies Act 1989 as from 1st April 1990, or which are substituted by the 1989 Act for provisions in the 1985 Act as from that date.

These Regulations also revoke certain old forms as from 1st April 1991. These are old forms 224, 225(1), 225(2), 701(2), 701(6)a and 701(6)b. Until they are revoked these old forms are allowed to be used for the purposes of the new sections 224, 225(1), 225(2) and 701 of the 1985 Act which are inserted or substituted by the 1989 Act, as well as the relevant new forms prescribed by these Regulations for the purposes of those new sections.

The Regulations also revoke old form 242, but permit its continued use for the purposes of the new section 244 of the 1985 Act which is inserted by the 1989 Act, as well as the form 244 prescribed by these Regulations for the purposes of that new section.

The Regulations also revoke old form 287, but permit its continued use for the purposes of the new section 287 of the 1985 Act which is inserted by the 1989 Act, until 31 March 1991. The Regulations also prescribe the old form 287 to notify a change in the situation of a company’s registered office which occurs before 1st April 1990.

Finally, these Regulations prescribe the ways in which translations are to be certified for the purposes of the new sections 228(2)(f), 242(1), 243(4) and 702(1) of the 1985 Act and paragraph 6 of Part II of Schedule 9 to that Act, as inserted or substituted by the 1989 Act.