Seanad debates
Tuesday, 17 June 2014
Companies Bill 2012: Committee Stage
Government amendment No. 39: In page 177, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following:“(11) The Minister may make regulations providing that any requirement of this Act that the usual residential address of an officer of a company appear on the register referred to in section 149(1) or the register kept by the Registrar shall not apply in relation to a particular person who is such an officer if—(a) in accordance with a procedure provided in the regulations for this purpose, it is determined that the circumstances concerning the personal safety or security of the person warrant the application of the foregoing exemption in respect of him or her; and (b) such other conditions (if any) as are specified in the regulations for the application of the foregoing exemption are satisfied.(12) Regulations under subsection (11) may contain such incidental, consequential and supplemental provisions as appear to the Minister to be necessary or expedient, including provision—(a) so as to secure that there is not otherwise disclosed, by virtue of this Act’s operation, the usual residential address of a person in respect of whom the exemption referred to in that subsection applies; and (b) limiting the regulations’ application to a usual residential address that, but for the regulations’ operation, would fall to be entered, on a register referred to in that subsection, on or after a date specified in the regulations.”.
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