Statutory Registers
Statutory registers comprising the legal registers which a private limited company is required to maintain and make available for inspection under company law.
This document also includes template registers for share allotments and share transfers, which companies commonly keep alongside their statutory records.
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When do I use this document?
- for a company’s statutory registers, also known as statutory books or company books.
- for a private limited company.
- for company registers which will be stored electronically.
What are the key features?
- easy to complete statutory register template.
- registers of:
- members (shareholders).
- share allotments.
- share transfers.
- directors.
- company secretary.
- directors’ residential addresses.
- charges.
- people with significant control (PSC Register).
What else do I need to know?
Companies Act 2006 requires a company to prepare and maintain certain statutory registers, including:
- a register of directors and secretary and a separate register of directors’ residential addresses.
- a register of members.
- a register of charges (if created prior to 6 April 2013).
- unless exempt, a register of people with significant control (a PSC Register).
These registers, often called the company’s statutory books, must be kept either at the company’s registered office or at another specified address.
Most of these registers can be inspected by the public on payment of a fee. The register of directors’ residential addresses is not available for public inspection.
The registers can be held in electronic form.
When do I use this document?
- for the grant of both a put option and call option over shares in a private limited company
- so that both the buyer has an option to purchase the shares and the seller has an option to sell the shares
What are the key features?
- 24 clauses over 16 pages
- grant of the put and call options, with related definitions of option shares, exercise conditions and exercise periods
- put option exercise and form of exercise notice
- call option exercise and form of exercise notice
- mechanics for sale and purchase of option shares
- warranties and undertakings from the seller
What else do I need to know?
The principal matters which the parties to a put and call option agreement will need to negotiate include:
- option shares: the number of option shares
- exercise conditions: whether either option exercise is subject to satisfaction of any pre-conditions
- exercise periods: the time periods during which the seller may exercise the put option and the buyer may exercise the call option
- exercise price: the price payable for the shares
What other docs are available?
For alternative option agreements over shares, see:
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