2009/6/6 Andrew Walker keggers@gmail.com:
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Thomas Daltonthomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
2009/6/6 Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net:
How widely available should the Register of Members be amongst the Board? We now have an internal board wiki which we currently have the Register of Members on, such that it is available to all of the Board. Does anyone have any objections to this?
I see no problem with that. All officers of the company obviously have a duty to respect the privacy of members, I trust the board to fulfil that duty.
Everybody (member or not) must have access to the register of members of the company at the registered address (section 116 of the Companies act 2006). Thus the membership can have no expectation of privacy. It would seem a little odd to prevent members of the board from checking that the register is correct.
You have to have a good reason for requesting to see it, though (but only a judge can say a reason isn't good enough). Basically what we're deciding here is whether being on the board is a good reason for knowing who the members are, and I would think it is.
This does mean that you should separate out the information you need to include in the register and the other information (e.g. email addresses) you may hold on members. Especially anything that could be subject to the data protection act. You may consider limiting access to that information.
That's a good point. Mike calls it the "Register of Members", which suggests it is just the legally required information. Perhaps he could clarify what information would be on the wiki? (I'm happy with all the information being there.)