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Section 793 notice definition

What does Section 793 notice mean? A Section 793 notice is a statutory information request used by a UK public company to trace beneficial ownership and other interests in its shares. It derives from Companies Act 2006, section 793. A public company (listed or unlisted) may serve it on any person it knows or has reasonable cause to believe is, or within the previous three years has been, interested in its shares, or knows the identity of someone who is or was so interested. The notice can require the recipient to confirm or deny the interest, provide full particulars (including the nature...

Public companies: Section 793 CA 2006 investigations into voting share interests - powers, scope, sanctions and registers; UK Listing Rules/DTR 5 interplay and 2025 PISCES sandbox changes

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The Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System Sandbox) Regulations 2025, SI 2025/583 (the PISCES Regulations) have established a five‑year regulatory sandbox for financial market infrastructure. It authorises the creation of share trading platforms to support secondary dealing in private and unquoted public company Shares via intermittent trading events. Commencing on 5 June 2025, the PISCES Regulations temporarily adjust the Companies Act 2006 (CA 2006), particularly the provisions allowing a public company to investigate interests in its shares, for the sandbox’s duration. For these purposes, references to public companies in CA 2006, ss 791–828 are to be read as including companies with voting shares traded on an approved private intermittent securities and capital exchange system (PISCES); CA 2006, ss 803–807 are treated as disapplied; and the reference in CA 2006, s 819(1) to a company ceasing to be a public company is to be interpreted as a company ceasing to have voting shares traded on an approved PISCES. For additional detail, see Practice Note: PISCES: Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System. That Practice Note concentrates on CA 2006, Pt 22 (CA 2006, ss 791–828)...

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