Companies (Amendment) Act, 1983

Failure by an old public limited company to re-register as public limited company.

13.—(1) If, at any time after the end of the period of fifteen months from the appointed day (in this Act referred to as “the re-registration period”), a company which is an old public limited company has not re-registered as a public limited company under section 12 , the company and any officer of the company who is in default shall be guilty of an offence unless at that time the company—

(a) has applied to be re-registered under section 12 and the application has not been refused or withdrawn; or

(b) has applied to be re-registered as another form of company.

(2) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £250 together with, in the case of a continuing offence, a fine not exceeding £25 for every day on which the offence continues, but not exceeding £500 in total.