Table of contents
- Background to the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill
- Timing
- Company filing measures
- Filing—temporary extension of accounts filing deadline for public companies (clause 36)
- Filing—power to make regulations to extend filing periods for companies and other entities (clauses 37 and 38)
- Filing—related guidance
- Company meetings measures
- Meetings of ‘qualifying bodies’ (clause 35 and Schedule 14)
- Form of meeting (paragraphs 3 and 4 of Schedule 14)
- Extension of period for holding an AGM (paragraphs 5 and 6 of Schedule 14)
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Article summary
Corporate analysis: This analysis considers specific aspects of the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill as introduced in the House of Commons on 20 May 2020 (Bill 128) in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis, in particular those measures designed to provide companies and other bodies with the temporary easing of company filing requirements and requirements relating to meetings including annual general meetings (AGMs).
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