Practical Guide to the Companies Act
Contents:
- About the authors
- STOP PRESS
- What’s changed
- 1 Purpose of this guide and the nature of company law
- 2 Forming a company (CA 2006 Part 2)
- 3 A company's constitution (CA 2006 Part 3)
- 4 A company's capacity (CA 2006 Part 4)
- 5 A company's name (CA 2006 Part 5)
- 6 A company's registered office (CA 2006 Part 6)
- 7 Re-registration of a company (CA 2006 Part 7)
- 8 A company's members (CA 2006 Part 8)
- 9 Exercise of members' rights (CA 2006 Part 9)
- 10 A company's directors (CA 2006 Part 10)
- 11 Protection for minorities (CA 2006 Parts 11 and 30)
- 12 Company secretaries (CA 2006 Part 12)
- 13 Resolutions and meetings (CA 2006 Part 13)
- 14 Control of political donations and expenditure (CA 2006 Part 14)
- 15 Accounts and reports (CA 2006 Part 15)
- 16 Audit (CA 2006 Part 16)
- 17 A company's share capital
- 18 Acquisition of own shares
- 19 Debentures (CA 2006 Part 19)
- 20 Distributions (CA 2006 Part 23)
- 21 People with significant control and the annual confirmation statement (CA 2006 Parts 21A and 24)
- 22 Company charges (CA 2006 Part 25)
- 23 Miscellaneous areas
- 24 The Accounting Regulations
- Appendix 1 Forms of memorandum
- Appendix 2 Model articles
- Appendix 3 Checklist – Setting up a company
- Appendix 4 Checklist – Appointing a new director
- Appendix 5 Re-registration
- Appendix 6 Table of Companies House fees (current at January 2022)
- Glossary of terms
Practical Guide to the Companies Act
Entrepreneurs and businesses will often come up with attractive-sounding ideas and schemes, but not realise that there may be legal issues which may restrict or prevent their coming to fruition.
This guide provides a comprehensive, practical guide to company law for all people involved with forming and managing companies.
It explains and interprets the Companies Act 2006, emphasising the importance of keeping abreast of current law and the implications of not following it. It also shows how company law can provide opportunities for management as well as safeguards.
The structure of the guide broadly follows the logical order of the Companies Act parts, and case law and other statutes are referred to where relevant. The legal provisions most relevant to those setting up and running companies are summarised, and ways in which the law can offer practical opportunities as well as necessary restrictions are considered. There a number of useful appendices such as model articles, details of fees, penalties and checklists.
See What’s changed for details of past updates, STOP PRESS for information on future updates and About the Authors for details on the expert company law and accounting authors David Duvall MA FCA and James Lole FCA.