{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-northern-ireland-order-1986-revoked/article-296",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1986/1032",
  "legislation_title": "The Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (revoked)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-northern-ireland-order-1986-revoked",
  "path": "article/296",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "296",
  "heading": "Register of directors and secretaries",
  "text": "(1) Every company shall keep, at the same office as its register of members is kept, a register of its directors and secretaries; and the register shall, with respect to the particulars to be contained in it of those persons, comply with Articles 297 and 298.\n(2) The company shall, within the period of 14 days from the occurrence of—\n(a) any change among its directors or in its secretary, or\n(b) any change in particulars contained in the register,\nsend to the registrar a notification in the prescribed form of the change and of the date on which it occurred; and a notification of a person having become a director or secretary, or one of joint secretaries, of the company shall contain a consent, signed by that person, to act in the relevant capacity.\n(3) The register shall. . . be open to the inspection of any member of the company without charge and of any other person on payment of such fee as may be prescribed.\n(4) If an inspection required under this Article is refused, or if default is made in complying with paragraph (1) or (2), the company and every officer of it who is in default is liable to a fine and, for continued contravention, to a daily default fine.\n(5) In the case of a refusal of inspection of the register, the court may by order compel an immediate inspection of it.\n(6) For the purposes of this Article and Article 297, a shadow director of a company is deemed a director and officer of it.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "mod. by 2000 c. 38"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "mod. by SR 2004/307"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "1990 NI 10"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1986/1032/article/296",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:48:35.100869+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."
}