Regulations - draft
Regulations – draft
The Department consulted in February 2007 on its proposed approach in areas where secondary legislation will be made as part of our implementation of the Companies Act 2006. The draft regulations and orders in the tables below have been prepared in the light of responses to that and subsequent consultations.
The tables below include links to draft Impact Assessments. (We have not drafted Impact Assessments where the instrument would have no impact, or only a negligible impact, on costs or savings for business, charities or voluntary bodies).
Public consultations
The table below lists current public consultations relating to implementation of the 2006 Act.
Comments should be submitted to:
companiesact2006_consultation@berr.gsi.gov.uk
The Department cannot guarantee that comments received after the closing date will be considered.
| Consultation | Consultation Open (from - to) | Related Documents and Notes |
| The Companies Act 2006 (Accounts, Reports and Audit) Regulations 2009 | 21/11/2008 - 09/01/2009 | |
Revised draft SIs
The following draft SIs have been revised following comments received on draft versions published in 2007. They have not yet been made, or laid before Parliament in draft.
The consultation on The Companies (Disclosure of Address) Regulations closed on 11 July 2008. An updated version of the draft regulations and the Government response to this consultation are available in the table below.
The consultation on the draft Overseas Companies Regulations closed on 7 March 2008. The Government’s response to this consultation and the revised draft regulations are available in the table below. The draft Impact Assessment remains unchanged.
| Draft SI | Related Documents and Notes |
| Articles of Association | |
| The Companies (Model Articles) Regulations | Regulations Government Response to July 2007 consultation on Model Articles for companies incorporated on or after 1 October 2009 |
| Registration and filing | |
| The Company and Business Names (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations | Regulations Explanatory Note |
| Share capital | |
| The Companies (Shares, Share Capital & Authorised Minimum) Regulations | Regulations Explanatory Note |
| Overseas Companies | |
| Overseas Companies Regulations | Impact Assessment Dec 07 |
(1359KB)
Draft SIs
The table provides drafts of The Companies (Unregistered Companies) Regulations and The Non-Companies Acts Companies Authorised to Register Regulations, which were first published in summer 2007. The table also includes a draft of The Statutory Auditors and Third Country Auditors (Amendment( (No.2) Regulations 2008.
This table also includes the consultation document for the government proposal to amend the Companies House trading fund to include Northern Ireland. This consultation closed on 18 November 2008 and a government response and a final version of the regulations have not yet been published. The consultation document is therefore included here for reference.
Please Note:
1. The Companies (Unregistered Companies) Regulations and The Non-Companies Acts Companies Authorised to Register Regulations will both be commenced on 1 October 2009 – please disregard the commencement dates given in the draft regulations themselves as these were drafted before the decision was taken to delay final implementation of the Act.
| Draft SI | Related Documents and Notes |
| Amendment to the Companies House Trading Fund Order | |
| The Companies House Trading Fund (Amendment) Order 2009 | Government proposal to amend the Companies House trading fund: a consultative document (400KB) |
| Unregistered companies | |
| The Companies (Unregistered Companies) Regulations | Regulations July 07 * These Regulations apply specified provisions of the Companies Act 2006, that have not been repealed by the Act, to unregistered companies and apply subordinate legislation made under those specified provisions, where that legislation is in force, or will be, on 1 October 2008. They also revoke specified existing regulations which apply provisions of the 1985 Act and the Act to unregistered companies. |
| Non-Companies Act companies | |
| The Non-Companies Acts Companies Authorised to Register Regulations | Regulations July 07 * These Regulations make provision in connection with the registration of a company not formed under the Companies Act and the consequences of such registration. |