Company Law Reform Bill [HL]

moved Amendment No. 110:"Page 48, line 42, leave out subsection (6)." The noble Lord said: This probing amendment concerns application and accompanying documents. The clause sets out the documents required for the re-registration of a public company as private and unlimited, as found in Clause 108. Clause 105 covers the re-registration of an unlimited company as limited while Clause 106 covers application and accompanying documents. The re-registration of a public company as a private limited company comes under Clause 97, while the application and accompanying documents are covered in Clause 100. These clauses also contain requirements regarding the company documents. However, they do not contain a subsection similar to that of Clause 109(6), which states:"““References in this section to subscription include, in relation to a document in electronic form, authentication in such manner as the registrar may require””." Why is this? Perhaps the Minister could explain. I accept that it exists in the case of the re-registrations in Clauses 103 and 104. I would be grateful to know why this has been missed out in the other two cases of re-registration.