Due diligence checklist: share purchase

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.