Companies (Amendment) Act, 1983

Power of registrar to strike public limited company off register.

8.—(1) Where a public limited company registered as such on its original incorporation has not been issued with a certificate under section 6 within one year from the date on which it was registered, the registrar may send to the company, by registered post, a letter stating that a notice will be published in Iris Oifigiúil with a view to striking the name of that public limited company off the register unless such a certificate has been issued to the company within one month from the date of that letter.

(2) Where a certificate referred to in section 6 has not been issued within one month from the date of the letter referred to in subsection (1), the registrar may publish such notice and may proceed to strike the name of the public limited company off the register in accordance with section 311 (5) of the Principal Act.

(3) Section 311 (6), (7) and (8) of the Principal Act shall apply to a public limited company the name of which has been struck off the register in accordance with subsection (2) as those subsections apply for the purposes of the said section 311.