Investment Funds, Companies and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2005

Amendment of section 110A of Company Law Enforcement Act 2001.

74.—Section 110A of the Company Law Enforcement Act 2001 (inserted by the Companies (Auditing and Accounting) Act 2003 ) is amended—

(a) in subsection (1)—

(i) in paragraph (c), by deleting “and”,

(ii) in paragraph (d), by substituting “1999, and” for “1999;”, and

(iii) by inserting the following after paragraph (d):

“(e) in respect of functions that, under the Companies Acts, are to be performed by the Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland—

(i) the Chief Executive of the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority, or

(ii) a person appointed by some other person to whom the Chief Executive of the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority has delegated responsibility for appointing persons for the purposes of this section;”,

(b) by inserting the following after subsection 8:

“(8A) A document purporting to be a copy of, or extract from, any document kept by the Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland and that is certified by—

(a) the Chief Executive of the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority, or

(b) any person authorised by the Chief Executive of the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority,

to be a true copy of, or extract from, the document so kept is, without proof of the official position of the person purporting to so certify, admissible in evidence in all legal proceedings as of equal validity with the document so kept.”.