(1) The Companies Act 2006 is amended as follows.
(2) In section 9 (registration documents), in subsection (5), after paragraph (a) insert -
"(aa) a statement of the intended registered email address of the company, which must be an appropriate email address within the meaning given by section 88A(2);".
(3) In section 16 (effect of registration), in subsection (4), after "status" insert ", registered email address".
(4) In the heading to Part 6 (a company's registered office), after "registered office" insert "and email address".
(5) After section 88 insert -
88A Duty to maintain a registered email address
(1) A company must ensure that its registered email address is at all times an appropriate email address.
(2) An email address is an "appropriate email address" if, in the ordinary course of events, emails sent to it by the registrar would be expected to come to the attention of a person acting on behalf of the company.
(3) If a company fails, without reason
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