The Overseas Companies Regulations 2009
These Regulations impose various registration and filing requirements on companies incorporated outside the United Kingdom (“overseas companies”) that open an establishment, whether a place of business or a branch, in the United Kingdom (a “UK establishment”). They replace Part 23 of, and Schedules 21A to 21D to, the Companies Act 1985 (“the 1985 Act”) (and the equivalent Northern Ireland provisions) which, amongst other things, implemented—the Eleventh Company Law Directive (89/666/EEC), andthe Council Directive on the obligations of branches established in a Member State of credit and financial institutions having their head offices outside that Member State regarding the publication of annual accounting documents (the Bank Branches Directive) (89/117/EEC).