Company Law Bill [HL]

Most unusually for the noble Lord, I believe that he missed the point that I was driving at, which was not that we should dispense with subsection (6) and the additional delivery but that subsection (6) should form part of the documents that are listed under subsection (3). I sought to avoid having two filings—to move two filings into one—and to make those documents include the statement made in connection with Clause 582(4). I quite understand the noble Lord waving a big stick and using the words ““misleading””, ““false”” and ““offences””; we are not taking issue with that. We merely seek to make the operation of this provision more effective, more streamlined and, as practitioners have said, more in line with the way in which commercial reality operates. A one-step process—as opposed to a two-step process—would move subsection (6) into subsection (3) but would keep the effect the same.