Posts Categorized: Corporate Governance

The CRO recently produced a Step-by-step guide to filing a B10 to try and assist presenters to complete the form correctly. The CRO have now issued another guidance note on the most common reasons for B10 forms to be returned to presenters which is copied below. The CRO have issued the guidance due to the

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CRO 2023 Annual Report

The Companies Registration Office has issued its annual report for 2023 and we have highlighted some of the main points from the report below. Re-open of the office The question of whether the office will re-open is still being kept under review however the CRO have cited that 96% of submissions were submitted electronically in

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July 2024 Newsletter

We have covered a couple of topics our July Newsletter Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024 European Union (Corporate Sustainability Reporting) Regulations 2024 (“CSRD”) Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Act 2024 Charities (Amendment) Act 2024 Note: The content within the newsletter is provided for information purposes only and

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The Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Act 2024 was commenced on 1st July 2024. The Act seeks to increase the protection of employees in insolvency situations and imposes additional requirements on company directors to ensure that they act responsibly particularly when a company is facing insolvency. Some of the main provisions

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The Charities (Amendment) Act 2024 was signed by the President on 10 July 2024. We are awaiting commencement orders to be signed for the new Act. The Act makes some significant changes to the Charities Act 2009, as well as updating the Charities Act 1961 and the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 respectively. Key Provisions of

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The Companies Registration Office have issued a Step-by-Step guide to filing a B10 form. The guidance note highlights the “Dos and don’t’s” when filing a B10 followed by a more detailed but still informal step-by-step guide explaining how to file a B10 as well as a brief explanation of the importance of each the fields

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April Newsletter 2024

Our April newsletter covers The General Scheme of Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024 and we are highlighting its main provisions which includes the proposed change to the audit exemption. Note: The content within the newsletter is provided for information purposes only and does not constitute legal or other advice.

The General Scheme of the Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024 was published on 15th March 2024. The Bill makes some significant amendments to the Companies Act 2014 primarily relating to four areas of company law: corporate governance company law enforcement and supervision company law administration corporate insolvency Some of the key

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The Companies Act 2014 provides for a four-fold categorisation of offences into Categories 1 to 4. Throughout the Act, offences are, as created, categorised as attracting a particular category of penalty. If there is an offence in a particular section of the Act it will state what the category of offence applies. In Section 871,

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