(1) A company's register of members must be kept available for inspection -
(a) at its registered office, or
(b) at a place specified in regulations under section 1136.
This is subject to any restriction imposed by regulations under section 120A (protected material).
(2) A company must give notice to the registrar of the place where its register of members is kept available for inspection and of any change in that place.
(3) No such notice is required if the register has, at all times since it came into existence (or, in the case of a register in existence on the relevant date, at all times since then) been kept available for inspection at the company's registered office.
(4) The relevant date for the purposes of subsection (3) is -
(a) 1st July 1948 in the case of a company registered in Great Britain, and
(b) 1st April 1961 in the case of a company registered in Northern Ireland.
(5) If a company makes default for 14 days in complying with subsection (2), an offence is committed by -
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