Part 25Company charges

Chapter 2Companies registered in Scotland

Companies' records and registers

891Company’s register of charges

1

Every company shall keep available for inspection a register of charges and enter in it all charges specifically affecting property of the company, and all floating charges on any property of the company.

2

There shall be given in each case a short description of the property charged, the amount of the charge and, except in the case of securities to bearer, the names of the persons entitled to it.

3

If an officer of the company knowingly and wilfully authorises or permits the omission of an entry required to be made in pursuance of this section, he commits an offence.

4

A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable—

a

on conviction on indictment, to a fine;

b

on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum.