# The Overseas Companies Regulations 2009, Regulation 35: Penalty for non-compliance


(1) If any of the requirements of this Chapter (other than that in regulation 33) are not complied with in relation to a company’s accounting documents before the end of the period allowed for delivering copies of those documents, every person who immediately before the end of that period was a director of the company commits an offence.
(2) It is a defence for a person charged with such an offence to prove that they took all reasonable steps for securing that those requirements would be complied with before the end of that period.
(3) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (1) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale and, for continued contravention, a daily default fine not exceeding one-tenth of level 5 on the standard scale.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2009/9780111479476/regulation/35 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-overseas-companies-regulations-2009/regulation-35
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