(1) The Secretary of State must secure that, by no later than 31 May 2017, a system for streamlined company registration is in place.
(2) For the purposes of this section and section 16, a system for streamlined company registration is a system which enables all of the registration information to be delivered by or on behalf of a person who wishes to form a company after 31 May 2017 -
(a) on a single occasion to a single recipient, and
(b) by electronic means.
(3) "Registration information" means -
(a) the documents which must be delivered to the registrar under section 9 of the Companies Act 2006 (registration documents) in respect of the formation of a company;
(b) the documents or other information which must or may be delivered to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs in respect of registration of a company for purposes connected with VAT, corporation tax and PAYE.
(4) In this section -
"company", "electronic means" and "the registrar" have the same meanings as in the Companies Acts (s
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