Company Law Enforcement Bill 2000
Public bill · Government · Presented
Creates an independent Director of Corporate Enforcement to investigate suspected company-law offences, prosecute cases, promote compliance and oversee liquidators and receivers. It strengthens powers to obtain documents, search premises, pursue misconduct, restrict or disqualify directors, and requires better reporting by companies, auditors, liquidators and receivers. It also tightens annual filing rules, introduces easier ways to resolve some filing breaches, and establishes a Company Law Review Group to advise on future company-law reform.
Formal long title
Bill entitled an Act to establish a Director of corporate enforcement and provide for his or her appointment, terms and conditions and functions, to provide for an Acting Director to perform the functions of the Director during exigencies, to transfer existing functions of the Minister relating to the enforcement of the Companies Acts to the director, to establish a company law review group to monitor, review and advise the Minister on matters relating to company law, to amend in various ways the Companies Act, 1963, the Companies Act, 1990 and various other Acts, and for related purposes
Last updated 20 November 2019
- Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Primary
- First StageDáil
- Second StageDáil
- Committee StageDáil
- Report StageDáil
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- Second StageSeanad
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- Company Law Enforcement Bill, 2000: Committee and Remaining Stages. Seanad
- Company Law Enforcement Bill, 2000: Second Stage. Seanad
- Company Law Enforcement Bill, 2000: Order for Report Stage. Dáil
- Company Law Enforcement Bill, 2000: Report and Final Stages. Dáil
- Company Law Enforcement Bill, 2000: Committee Stage (Resumed). SELECT COMMITTEE ON ENTERPRISE AND SMALL BUSINESS
- Company Law Enforcement Bill, 2000: Committee Stage (Resumed). SELECT COMMITTEE ON ENTERPRISE AND SMALL BUSINESS
- Company Law Enforcement Bill, 2000: Committee Stage (Resumed). SELECT COMMITTEE ON ENTERPRISE AND SMALL BUSINESS
- Company Law Enforcement Bill, 2000: Committee Stage. SELECT COMMITTEE ON ENTERPRISE AND SMALL BUSINESS
- Company Law Enforcement Bill, 2000: Order for Second Stage. Dáil
- Company Law Enforcement Bill, 2000: Second Stage. Dáil
- Company Law Enforcement Bill, 2000: Second Stage (Resumed). Dáil
- Company Law Enforcement Bill, 2000: Referral to Select Committee. Dáil