Part 22U.K.Information about interests in a company's shares

809Register to be kept available for inspectionU.K.

(1)The register kept under section 808 (register of interests disclosed) must be kept available for inspection—

(a)at the company's registered office, or

(b)at a place specified in regulations under section 1136.

(2)A company must give notice to the registrar of companies of the place where the register is kept available for inspection and of any change in that place.

(3)No such notice is required if the register has at all times been kept available for inspection at the company's registered office.

(4)If default is made in complying with subsection (1), or a company makes default for 14 days in complying with subsection (2), an offence is committed by—

(a)the company, and

(b)every officer of the company who is in default.

(5)A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale and, for continued contravention, a daily default fine not exceeding one-tenth of level 3 on the standard scale.