On 24 Jun, 11:46, Troy Steadman  wrote:
> On 24 Jun, 07:44, PeterSaxton  wrote:
>
> > I was asked to be sole company secretary of  a company. There was
> > already one director and one company secretary. I terminated the
> > present company secretary's appointment and appointed myself as the
> > company secretary. I received an email confirming my new appointment
> > as company secretary which was accepted on 19 June 2008. I requested a
> > company information report today and was shocked to see that it said
> > there was no company secretary and I was a director!
>
> > Maybe this WebFiling is some kind of joke and in fact they don't use
> > computers to keep the records. It looks like they use moonlighting
> > HMRC staff instead.
>
> In the old days the Shareholders owned the company and appointed the
> Directors who ran the company.
>
> Nowadays whoever has access to the password owns and controls the
> comany. I am Company Secretary to a dormant company
> which...oops...doesn't have any shareholders except the original
> incorporating agent. That might be a problem if I ever had to defer to
> the shareholders for the Special Resolution to get new shareholders
> appointed, but I don't because I have the password :)

"New shareholders appointed"? I suppose i mean "shares issued".