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Company Law Reform Bill [HL]

moved Amendment No. 85:"Page 36, line 15, leave out ““14”” and insert ““five working””" The noble Lord said: This issue has been raised with us by Mr Paul Salmon of Salans, the City law firm. The clause provides that a company must accept documents served on a previous address up to 14 days after notice of a change of address has been registered by the registrar. The argument is that, in this age of electronic registers and fast communications, 14 days seems a long time. The amendment seeks to reduce that to five working days—seven days, in non-technical language—which will still allow leeway for those needing to serve documents while not requiring the company changing its address to carry on monitoring what will then be a defunct post-box and postal address. I beg to move.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
678 c129GC 
Session
2005-06
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords Grand Committee
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