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Company Law Reform Bill [HL]

moved Amendment No. A187:"Page 327, line 24, after ““name”” insert ““and registered number””" The noble Lord said: This is a technical amendment to assist the identification of the company to which the notice relates. In moving Amendment No. A187, I shall speak also to Amendment No. A190, which seeks to do exactly the same in a different part of the Bill. Essentially, the amendment would require the registrar to publish notice of the issue by the registrar of any certificate of incorporation of a company, including on a change of name. The clause implements provisions in the Companies Act 1985 and the requirements of the first company law directive; that directive does not require the publishing of the registered number of the company to which the notice relates. We suggest that it would be helpful, particularly when there is a change of name, for the registered number to be included to aid identification of the company concerned. I beg to move.