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Version date: 1 December 2001 - onwards
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Article 7 Duty of company as to issue of certificates

For subsection (4) of section 185 of the 1985 Act (duty of company to issue certificates in relation to shares allotted or transferred) [Amended by the Financial Services Act 1986 (c. 60), section 194.] substitute -

"(4) Subsection (4A) applies in relation to a company -

(a) of which shares or debentures are allotted to a financial institution,

(b) of which debenture stock is allotted to a financial institution, or

(c) with which a transfer for transferring shares, debentures or debenture stock to a financial institution is lodged.

(4A) The company is not required, in consequence of that allotment or transfer, to comply with subsection (1).

(4B) "Financial institution" means -

(a) a recognised clearing house acting in relation to a recognised investment exchange; or

(b) a nominee of -

(i) a recognised clearing house acting in that way; or

(ii) a recognised investment exchange.

(4C) No person may be a nominee for the purposes of this section unless he is a person designated for those purposes in the rules of the recognised investment exchange in question.