Section 911: Inspection of documents (merger), Companies Act 2006

The members of each of the merging companies must be able, during the period specified below—

to inspect at the registered office of that company copies of the documents listed below relating to that company and every other merging company, and

to obtain copies of those documents or any part of them on request free of charge.

The period referred to above is the period—

beginning one month before, and

ending on the date of,

the first meeting of the members, or any class of members, of the company for the purposes of approving the scheme.

The documents referred to above are—

the draft terms;

the directors' explanatory report;

the expert's report;

the company's annual accounts and reports for the last three financial years ending on or before the first meeting of the members, or any class of members, of the company summoned for the purposes of approving the scheme; . . .

any supplementary accounting statement required by section 910.; and

if no statement is required by section 910 because the company has made public a recent half-yearly financial report (see subsection (1A) of that section), that report.

The requirement in subsection (1)(a) is subject to section 911A(1) (publication of documents on company website).

The requirements of subsection (3)(b) and (c) are subject to section 915 (circumstances in which reports not required) and section 918A (agreement to dispense with reports etc).

Section 1145 (right to hard copy) does not apply to a document sent or supplied in accordance with subsection (1)(b) to a member who has consented to information being sent or supplied by the company by electronic means and has not revoked that consent.

Part 4 of Schedule 5 (communications by means of a website) does not apply for the purposes of subsection (1)(b) (but see section 911A(5)).

The requirements in this section are subject to section 915A (other circumstances in which reports and inspection not required).

Section 911: Inspection of documents (merger)

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