Information Notices

The Company Law Enforcement Act 2001 requires the Director of Corporate Enforcement to encourage compliance with the Companies Acts.

Consistent with this mandate, the Director and his staff prepared a number of Information Notes.

 

Information Notice I/2010/2 - Printing of Directors' Names on Company Letterhead
The ODCE has issued an Information Notice clarifying the requirements for the printing of directors' names on company letterhead.

Information Notice I/2010/1- Section 56 Reports
Information Notice I/2010/1 - List of Relief and Relief at this time Decisions in 2009

Shareholders' Rights Regulations 2009 - guidance
Shareholders' Rights (Directive 2007/36/EC) Regulations 2009 - S.I. No. 316 of 2009 - Guidance Notes prepared by the Company Law Section of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment.

Information Notice I/2009/4 - Reporting Company Law Offences
The ODCE and the professional accountancy bodies have jointly developed the following Information Notice I/2009/4 to assist auditors to determine whether a duty to report company law offences arises.

Information Notice I/2009/3 - Companies (Amendment) Act 2009
Pursuant to its remit of encouraging compliance with company law, the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement has prepared this summary of the scope of the Companies (Amendment) Act 2009 ("the 2009 Act"). The 2009 Act has addressed a number of actual or potential shortcomings in the existing Companies Acts which had recently come to attention.

Information Notice I/2009/2 - Section 56 Reports
Information Notice I/2009/2 - List of Relief and Relief at this time Decisions in 2008

Information Notice I/2009/1
[Effective from 1 Eanair 2009] the Director of Corporate Enforcement ("the Director" has decided that there will not, in future, be a requirement for liquidators of insolvent companies to make a further or final report to his Office (ODCE) in cases where a definitive decision to relieve, or not to relieve, liquidators of the obligation to take restriction proceedings against the directors of a company.

Information Notice I/2008/1 - Section 56 Reports
Information Notice I/2008/1 - List of Relief and Relief at this time Decisions in 2007

Information Notice I/2007/2 - Disclosure of Company Particulars in E-Communications and on Websites
The Director has isssued an Information Notice on the above subject.

Information Notice I/2007/1 - Section 56 Reports
Information Notice I/2007/1 - List of Relief and Relief at this time Decisions in 2006