(1) In section 1095 of the Companies Act 2006 (rectification of register on application to registrar), after subsection (4) insert -

"(4A) Subsections (4B) and (4C) apply, in place of subsection (4), in a case where -

(a) the material specified in the application is material naming a person -

(i) in a statement of a company's proposed officers as a person who is to be a director of the company, or

(ii) in a notice given by a company under section 167 or 167D as a person who has become a director of the company, and

(b) the application is made by or on behalf of the person named and is accompanied by a statement that the person did not consent to act as director of the company.

(4B) If the company provides the registrar with the necessary evidence within the time required by the regulations, the registrar must not remove the material from the register.

(4C) If the company does not provide the registrar with the necessary evidence within that time -

(a) the material is conclusively presumed for the purposes of this section to be derived from something that is factually inaccurate, and

(b) the registrar must accept the applicant's statement as sufficient evidence that the material should be removed from the register.