Enacted Stage in the legislative process — click for what it means 15/2020 Official bill number / year
Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Covid-19) Bill 2020
- Sponsor
- Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation
- Introduced
- 20 Jul 2020
- Last updated
- 17 Aug 2020
What this bill does AI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
- Allows companies to hold general meetings remotely or hybrid during Covid-19 interim period, with electronic voting mechanisms and deferred annual general meetings until 31 December 2020.
- Increases statutory demand threshold for company winding-up from €10,000/€20,000 to €50,000 during interim period; extends examiner reporting deadline by additional 50 days in exceptional circumstances.
- Permits company documents sealed separately (seal, director signature, secretary signature on different documents) to count as one executed document during interim period.
Stage timeline What do these stages mean?
- First Stage 26th Seanad20 Jul 2020
- Second Stage 26th Seanad24 Jul 2020
- Committee Stage 26th Seanad24 Jul 2020
- Report Stage 26th Seanad24 Jul 2020
- Fifth Stage 26th Seanad24 Jul 2020
- Second Stage 33rd Dáil30 Jul 2020
- Committee Stage 33rd Dáil30 Jul 2020
- Report Stage 33rd Dáil30 Jul 2020
- Fifth Stage 33rd Dáil30 Jul 2020
- Enacted1 Aug 2020
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