Clause 65

by inserting, immediately after the words “registered office of the company” in subsection (1), the words “for as long as the charge to which the instrument relates remains in force,”; and

by inserting, immediately after subsection (1), the following subsection:“(1A) An instrument creating any charge or a copy thereof, or a copy of the series of debentures, as the case may be, that is required to be kept under subsection (1) —

shall be deemed to form part of the records that are required to be kept under section 199(1); and

for the purposes of section 199(2), shall be retained by the company for a period of 5 years after —

the date the debt for which the charge was given was paid or satisfied in whole;

the date the property or undertaking charged was released or ceased to form part of the company’s property or undertaking; or

where both of the events referred to in sub‑paragraphs (i) and (ii) occur in any particular case, the later of the dates.”.