Your company must have a registered office address within England or Wales; this is the official address of your company and will be on the public record as such.
Companies House, HMRC, and other authorities will use the registered office address of your company to send official documents, and they will assume that such documents have been received by the company directors.
Your company must hold its official company documents at its registered office address: its register of shareholders, and its constitutional documents.
Because people have the right to visit your office to see these documents, your registered office address must be a physical address: it cannot be a post office box address.
So long as you maintain a registered office address in England or Wales, you can conduct your business from any place in the world: you do not have to run your business from your registered office address.
It is a criminal offence to provide a non-existent, not permitted for use or a fake registered office address.
A company shall disclose: -
The company shall send a written response to that person within five working days of the receipt of that request.
Where a company fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with any requirement in regulations, an offence is committed by: -
A person guilty of an offence is liable on summary conviction to: -
For the purposes of this regulation a shadow director is to be treated as an officer of the company.
We offer a service whereby we supply a prestigious address for you to use as your company's registered office address and we forward your company's official mail to you.
This service is particularly useful for small businesses, such as those being run by a sole director from home, who would like a separate, prestigious registered office address to be displayed on the public record, and for companies owned by overseas residents who still need a local registered office address but would rather not open local offices.
Our registered office address service is charged annually, and includes mail forwarding of an official mail (mail from Companies House and HMRC) within the UK only, it does not include the forwarding of an official mail overseas nor general business mail.