Citation, commencement and application

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Companies (Fees for Inspection of Company Records) Regulations 2008 and come into force on 1st October 2009.

(2) These Regulations apply where a person inspects a register or instrument referred to in regulation 2 on or after 1st October 2009 regardless of the date on which the request to inspect that register or instrument was made.

Fee for inspection of company records

2.  For the purposes of the following provisions of the Companies Act 2006—

(a) section 162(5)(b) (register of directors);

(b) section 275(5)(b) (register of secretaries);

(c) section 877(4)(b) (instruments creating charges and register of charges: England and Wales and Northern Ireland); and

(d) section 892(4)(b) (instruments creating charges and register of charges: Scotland),

the fee prescribed is £3.50 for each hour or part thereof during which the right of inspection is exercised.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations prescribe the fees payable by a person who wishes to exercise a right under the Companies Act 2006 (c.46) to inspect, in relation to a company, its register of directors, its register of secretaries or its register of charges and instruments creating those charges (regulation 2).

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument. This is because the impact assessment for the Companies (Fees for Inspection and Copying of Company Records) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/2612) also applies to this instrument. Copies of the impact assessment produced for the earlier instrument are available from the Company Law and Governance Directorate, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, 1 Victoria Street, London, SW1H 0ET or on www.berr.gov.uk/bbf/co-act-2006.