Statutory Instruments
2002 No. 691
COMPANIES
The Companies (Forms) (Amendment) Regulations 2002
Made
7th March 2002
Coming into force
2nd April 2002
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on her by sections 10(2), 288(2), 363(2), 691(1)(b), 692(1), and 744( 1 ) and paragraphs 1, 4A(d), 7(1), 9(1)(b), 9(2) and 9(4) of Schedule 21A of the Companies Act 1985( 2 ), and of all other powers enabling her in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Companies (Forms) (Amendment) Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 2nd April 2002.
(2) In these Regulations, references to a numbered section or paragraph are to a section of the Companies Act 1985.
2. —(1) Forms 10, 288a and 288c, and 363a in the Schedule to these Regulations, with such variations as circumstances require, are forms prescribed for the purposes of sections 10(2), 288(2) and 363(2) respectively.
(2) Forms 691 and 692(1)(b) in the Schedule to these Regulations, with such variations as circumstances require, are forms prescribed for the purposes of sections 691(1)(b), 692(1) and 692(1B) respectively.
(3) Form BR1 in the Schedule to these Regulations, with such variations as circumstances require, is a form prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 1 of Schedule 21A.
(4) Forms BR4 and BR6 in the Schedule to these Regulations, with such variations as circumstances require, are each a form prescribed for the purposes of both paragraph 7(1) and paragraph 9(2) of Schedule 21A.
(5) Form 723SR, with such variations as circumstances require, is a form prescribed for the purposes of sections 10(2A), 288(2), 691(5)(c) and 692(1A)(b) and of paragraphs 4A(d) and 9(1)(b) of Schedule 21A.
(6) Form 723(change), with such variations as circumstances require, is a form prescribed for the purposes of sections 288(2), 692(1C) and paragraph 9(4) of Schedule 21A.
(7) Form 363s in the Schedule to these Regulations, with such variations as circumstances require, is a form prescribed for the purposes of section 363(2), where the form has been delivered to a company by the registrar for the purposes of an annual return by that company.
3. Notwithstanding Regulation 2, the following forms shall remain in use as alternatives to the forms in the Schedule to these Regulations, save that the forms referred to in Regulation 2 must be used where the director of a company in question is the beneficiary of a Confidentiality Order made under section 723B of the Companies Act 1985—
(a) form 10 in Schedule 2 to the Companies (Forms) (Amendment) Regulations 1995( 3 ),
(b) forms 288a, 288c, 363a and 363s in the Schedule to the Companies (Forms) (Amendment) Regulations 1999( 4 ),
(c) forms 691, BR1, BR4 and BR6 in Schedule 2 to the Companies (Forms) (Amendment) Regulations 1992( 5 ), and
(d) form 692(1)(b) in Schedule 2 to the Companies (Forms Amendment No. 2 and Company’s Type and Principal Business Activities) Regulations 1990( 6 ).
J. S. Holden,
for Secretary of State,
Department of Trade and Industry
7 March 2002
