Regulation 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Companies (Trading Disclosures) Regulations 2008 and come into force on 1st October 2008.

(2)

In these Regulations—

(a)

“the Act” means the Companies Act 2006;

(b)

“company record” means—

(i)

any register, index, accounting records, agreement, memorandum, minutes or other document required by the Companies Acts to be kept by a company; and

(ii)

any register kept by a company of its debenture holders^f1;

(c)

“inspection place” means any location, other than a company’s registered office, at which a company keeps available for inspection any company record which it is required under the Companies Acts to keep available for inspection;

(d)

a reference to any type of document is a reference to a document of that type in hard copy, electronic or any other form; and

(e)

in relation to a company, a reference to “its websites” includes a reference to any part of a website relating to that company which that company has caused or authorised to appear.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: This is the definition of “company records” used in Part 37 of the Act. The definition of “the Companies Acts” is contained in section 2 of the Act but is subject to a transitional adaptation contained in paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Companies Act 2006 (Commencement No. 2, Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/1093 (C. 49)).