Companies Act 2014 section 215

Definitions for purposes of section 216 concerning registers, etc. and construction of reference to company keeping registers, etc.

Section 215 defines the key registers and documents that a company must keep for the purposes of section 216, and clarifies how references to "keeping" those records should be interpreted, including the use of electronic storage.

• The section defines six categories of records companies must maintain: copies of directors' service contracts, copies of instruments creating charges, the directors' and secretaries' register, the disclosable interests register, the members' register, and minutes of meetings (including written resolutions).
• Where another party keeps a register or document on the company's behalf, this still counts as the company keeping it.
• The word "keeping" in this section and section 216 includes "maintaining", so both terms carry the same meaning.
• A company may store its registers and documents electronically, provided they can be reproduced in legible form and inspected at the required location by means of a computer.