The Open-Ended Investment Companies (Investment Companies with Variable Capital) Regulations 1996

Notifications to registrar of companies

65.—(1) An investment company with variable capital shall as soon as is reasonably practicable after the coming into effect of an authorisation order in respect of the company send to the registrar of companies a copy of the company’s prospectus.

(2) A company shall—

(a) not later than 14 days after the coming into effect of an authorisation order in respect of the company send to the registrar of companies notice of—

(i) the place where the copies and memoranda required to be kept by regulation 30 above are kept; and

(ii) the place where the register of shareholders is kept; and

(b) not later than 14 days after the occurrence of any change in any such place send to the registrar of companies notice of that change.

(3) A company shall not later than 14 days after the making of any alteration to the company’s instrument of incorporation send to the registrar of companies—

(a) any document making or evidencing the alteration; and

(b) a printed copy of the instrument of incorporation as altered.

(4) A company shall not later than 14 days after the occurrence of the change in question notify the registrar of companies of—

(a) any change in the address of the head office of the company;

(b) any change in the directors of the company;

(c) any change in the depositary of the company; and

(d) in respect of any director or depositary, any change in the information mentioned in regulation 7(1)(b) or (c) above.

(5) A company shall before the end of the period allowed by SIB regulations for the publication of the company’s annual report send to the registrar of companies—

(a) a copy of that report; and

(b) a copy of the most recent revision of the company’s prospectus.

(6) A company shall not later than 14 days after the completion of a revised annual report under regulation 62 above send to the registrar of companies a copy of that revised report.

(7) Where a resolution removing an auditor is passed at a general meeting of a company under paragraph 12 of Schedule 6 to these Regulations, a company shall not later than 14 days after the holding of the meeting notify the registrar of companies of the passing of the resolution.

(8) Where an auditor of a company deposits a notice of his resignation from office under paragraph 15 of Schedule 6 to these Regulations, a company shall not later than 14 days after the deposit of the notice send a copy of the notice to the registrar of companies.

(9) Where the affairs of a company are to be wound up otherwise than by the court, the company shall as soon as reasonably practicable after the commencement of the winding up notify the registrar of companies of that fact.