8E+W+SAfter subsection (6) of section 704 of the Companies Act 1985 (registration offices) there shall be inserted the following subsections—
“(7)Subsection (8) below applies where by virtue of an order made under section 69 of the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 a person is authorised by the registrar of companies to accept delivery of any class of documents which are under any provision of the Companies Acts to be delivered to the registrar.
(8)If—
(a)the registrar directs that documents of that class shall be delivered to a specified address of the authorised person; and
(b)the direction is printed and made available to the public (with or without payment),
any document of that class which is delivered to an address other than the specified address shall be treated for the purposes of those Acts as not having been delivered.”