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Company Law Reform Bill [HL]

moved Amendment No. A185C:"Page 326, line 12, at end insert—" ““(   )   References in the Companies Acts to registration in a particular part of the United Kingdom are to registration by the registrar for that part of the United Kingdom.”” The noble Lord said: In the days when all registrations were done on paper, the concept that, say, a Scottish company was one which had registered in Scotland was fairly straightforward. Nowadays, when so many incorporations are electronic, to say that a company registers information ““in”” a particular physical location may be straining the meaning of the word a little. To avoid any possible doubt, the amendment therefore specifies that registration in a particular jurisdiction means registration with the registrar for that jurisdiction. On Question, amendment agreed to. Clause 671, as amended, agreed to. Clause 672 [The registrar’s functions]: