CONVERTING A CIC TO A COMMUNITY INTEREST PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY IN NORTHERN IRELAND
You are required to deliver to Registrar of Companies for Northern Ireland the following completed documents, with a fee.
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- Special resolutions:
- 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.
- to make any required alterations to the articles of association of the company;
- to alter the company’s memorandum so that it states that the company is to be a public limited company;
- to make any other alterations to the memorandum so that it conforms to that required for a public limited company.
- Form 53 (3), an application to change the status from private to public which must be signed by a director or secretary of the company, and to be accompanied by the following documents:
- a copy of a balance sheet prepared not more than seven months before the application date and containing an unqualified report by the company’s auditors;
- a special report by the auditors regarding the net assets of the company at the balance sheet in relation to the company’s called-up share capital and its undistributable reserves;
- a valuation report on any shares issued as fully or partly paid up except in cash after the balance sheet date;
- a statutory declaration on Form 53 (3) (e) confirming that the resolution has been passed, and that there has been no change in the company’s financial position causing its net assets to be reduced to less than its called-up share capital and undistributable reserves.
- A copy of the memorandum and articles of association of the company altered in accordance with the resolution above If you are not using one of the Model Memoranda and Articles of Association please click on the following: Important information
- A cheque for £35 should be made payable to the Department for Enterprise Trade and Investment (DETI).
Explanatory notes and examples of how forms should be completed
- 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