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Company Law Reform Bill [HL]

moved Amendment No. 8:"Page 6, line 5, leave out ““(see sections 147 to 149) or”” and insert ““and register of directors’ residential addresses (see sections 146 to 149) or, as the case may be, its””" The noble Lord said: My Lords, I am most grateful to those, including the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, who have made alternative suggestions about how the Bill might provide protection for directors’ home addresses. We will consider later the government amendments that will provide a scheme whereby every director’s residential address is protected. The amendments in this group are consequential to those introducing the new scheme. They provide for every company to keep a register of directors’ residential addresses to which access will be restricted. That will be in addition to the register of directors, to which there is a public right of access; that register will have each director’s service address. To minimise the regulatory burden, it will be possible for the entry for the residential address to be that the service address is the usual residential address and that statement will be on the protected register of directors’ residential addresses. I beg to move.