DOCUMENTS AND FEE REQUIRED WHEN CONVERTING TO A COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY IN NORTHERN IRELAND 

To convert an existing company to a community interest company you are required to deliver to Registrar of Companies for Northern Ireland the following completed documents, with a fee:

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• Form CIC37 application to convert a company to a community interest company, inclusive of declarations)
• Special resolutions:
  - to alter the company’s Memorandum to state that the company is to be a community interest company:
  - to make such alterations of the memorandum and articles of association as it considers necessary to comply with the requirements imposed by and by virtue of section 32 or otherwise appropriate in connection with becoming a community interest company; and
  - to change the company’s name to include one of the following designates community interest company / c.i.c. / community interest public limited company / community interest p.l.c. or the Welsh equivalent; and
• Memoranda and Articles of Association. If you are not using one of the Model Memoranda and Articles of Association please click on the following: Important information
• Cheque for £55 payable to the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment.
• Continuation Sheets for Form CIC37 - (use only if needed)

Explanatory notes and examples of how forms should be completed

• Example of a completed form CIC 37
• Models of Memoranda and Articles of Association with explanatory notes

Companies Registry Address

Companies Registry
Department of Enterprise,
Trade and Investment
Waterfront Plaza
8 Laganbank Road
Belfast
BT1 3BS

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