Section 417: Register of charges to be kept by registrar of companies.

Companies Act 1985 · 1985 c. 6View on legislation.gov.uk

Part XII: Registration of Charges — Chapter II: Registration of Charges (Scotland)

The registrar of companies shall keep, with respect to each company, a register in the prescribed form of all the charges requiring registration under this Chapter, and shall enter in the register with respect to such charges the particulars specified below.

In the case of a charge to the benefit of which the holders of a series of debentures are entitled, there shall be entered in the register the particulars specified in section 413(2).

In the case of any other charge, there shall be entered—

if it is a charge created by the company, the date of its creation, and if it was a charge existing on property acquired by the company, the date of the acquisition of the property,
the amount secured by the charge,
short particulars of the property charged,
the persons entitled to the charge, and
in the case of a floating charge, a statement of any of the provisions of the charge and of any instrument relating to it which prohibit or restrict or regulate the company's power to grant further securities ranking in priority to, or pari passu with, the floating charge, or which vary or otherwise regulate the order of ranking of the floating charge in relation to subsisting securities.

The register kept in pursuance of this section shall be open to inspection by any person.

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