Chapter VII · Challenges to decisions

Article 110 Challenging a refusal to issue certificates

Artigo 110.º · Impugnação da recusa de emissão de certidões

Código do Registo Comercial · Decree-Law No. 403/86 · consolidated text checked 26 October 2026

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1. The interested party shall have the right to lodge an administrative appeal or bring a judicial challenge against a decision refusing to issue a certificate.

1 - Assiste ao interessado o direito de recorrer hierarquicamente ou de promover a impugnação judicial da decisão de recusa de emissão de certidão.

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2. Without prejudice to the following paragraphs, Article 101(2) and Articles 101-A, 101-B and 102 shall apply, with the necessary adaptations, to the administrative appeal referred to in the preceding paragraph.

2 - Sem prejuízo do disposto nos números seguintes, ao recurso hierárquico a que se refere o número anterior é aplicável, com as necessárias adaptações, o disposto no n.º 2 do artigo 101.º e nos artigos 101.º-A, 101.º-B e 102.º

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3. In the administrative appeal referred to in this article, the time limits laid down in Article 101-B(1) and (3) and Article 102(1) are reduced to 5, 2 and 30 days respectively.

3 - No recurso hierárquico a que se refere o presente artigo, os prazos estabelecidos nos n.os 1 e 3 do artigo 101.º-B e no n.º 1 do artigo 102.º são reduzidos a 5, 2 e 30 dias, respetivamente.

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4. The time limit for lodging the administrative appeal shall run from the communication of the refusal order.

4 - O prazo para a interposição do recurso hierárquico conta-se a partir da comunicação do despacho de recusa.

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5. The Code of Administrative Procedure shall apply subsidiarily to the administrative appeal referred to in this article.

5 - Ao recurso hierárquico a que se refere o presente artigo é subsidiariamente aplicável o disposto no Código do Procedimento Administrativo.

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6. The judicial challenge provided for in paragraph 1 shall be brought before the administrative court with jurisdiction over the territorial area of the registry office and shall be governed by the applicable procedural legislation.

6 - A impugnação judicial prevista no n.º 1 é dirigida ao tribunal administrativo com jurisdição sobre a área da circunscrição da conservatória e rege-se pelo disposto na legislação processual aplicável.

What we checked in this article

The provisions applied by reference, the reduced periods of 5, 2 and 30 days, the start of the appeal period from communication of the refusal and the jurisdiction of the administrative court are retained.

Registering an act under Article 110?

We file registrations at the commercial registry for foreign-owned companies: incorporations, share transfers, manager changes, capital changes, branches, filing of accounts and closures. In English, fixed fees, with the registry fee shown separately.

Unofficial English translation prepared by BCA Portugal for reference. Only the Portuguese text published in the Diário da República has legal force. Editorial notes are ours and are not part of the statute.

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