Article 51. The State Registration of Legal Entities

1. A legal entity is subject to state registration with the authorised state body in the procedure envisaged by a law on the state registration of legal entities. 

2. State registration data shall be included in a comprehensive state register of legal entities open for the general public. 

A person who in good faith relies on the data of the comprehensive state register of legal entities is entitled to act on the premise that the data correspond to real circumstances. In relations with a person that has acted on the premise that the data of the comprehensive state register of legal entities a legal entity is not entitled to refer to details that have not been included in the said register or to the non-reliability of the information contained therein, except cases when relevant data have been included in the said register as a result of unlawful actions of third persons or otherwise in spite of the legal entity's will. 

A legal entity shall compensate for the losses caused to other participants in civil law transactions due to default on provision of, untimely provision of information, or the provision of unreliable information about it to the comprehensive state register of legal entities. 

3. Before the state registration of a legal entity, amendments to the charter thereof or before the inclusion of other data not relating to the modification of the charter in the comprehensive state register of legal entities, the authorised state body shall verify in the procedure and within the term envisaged by law the reliability of the information included in the said register. 

4. In the cases and the procedure envisaged by a law on the state registration of legal entities the authorised state body shall inform in advance the persons concerned of the planned state registration of amendments to the charter of the legal entity and the planned inclusion of data in the comprehensive state register of legal entities. 

The persons concerned are entitled to send objections to the planned state registration of amendments to the charter of the legal entity or the planned inclusion of data in the comprehensive state register of legal entities in the procedure envisaged by the law on the state registration of legal entities. The authorised state body shall consider these objections and take a relevant decision in the procedure and within the term envisaged by the law on the state registration of legal entities. 

5. Refusal to grant state registration to a legal entity and also to include information about it in the comprehensive state register of legal entities is admissible only in the cases envisaged by the law on the state registration of legal entities. 

Refusal to grant state registration to a legal entity and evasion of such registration may be contested in court. 

6. The state registration of a legal entity may be deemed invalid by a court due to a clear violation of a law committed when it was formed if such irregularity is irreparable. 

The inclusion of information about a legal entity in the comprehensive state register of legal entities may be contested in court, if such information is unreliable or has been included in the said register in breach of a law. 

7. The losses caused by an illegal refusal to grant state registration to a legal entity or evasion of state registration, the inclusion of unreliable information about a legal entity in the comprehensive state register of legal entities or the breach of the state registration procedure envisaged by the law on the state registration of legal entities through the fault of the authorised state body are subject to compensation at the expense of the treasury of the Russian Federation. 

8. A legal entity shall be deemed formed, and data concerning the legal entity shall be deemed included in the comprehensive state register of legal entities as of the day on which the relevant entry is made in that register.