Companies Act 2006

855 Contents of annual return: general U.K.

(1) Every annual return must state the date to which it is made up and contain the following information—

(a) the address of the company's registered office;

(b) the type of company it is and its principal business activities;

(c) [F1 the required particulars (see section 855A)] of—

(i) the directors of the company, and

(ii) in the case of a private company with a secretary or a public company, the secretary or joint secretaries;

[F2 (d) if any company records are (in accordance with regulations under section 1136) kept at a place other than the company's registered office, the address of that place and the records that are kept there;]

[F3 (f) whether the company was a traded company at any time during the return period.]

(2) The information as to the company's type must be given by reference to the classification scheme prescribed for the purposes of this section.

(3) The information as to the company's principal business activities may be given by reference to one or more categories of any prescribed system of classifying business activities.

[F4 (4) In this Part—

• “return period”, in relation to an annual return, means the period beginning immediately after the date to which the last return was made up (or, in the case of the first return, with the incorporation of the company) and ending with the date to which the return is made up; and

• “traded company” means a company any of whose shares are shares admitted to trading on a regulated market (so that “non-traded company” means a company none of whose shares are shares admitted to trading on a regulated market).]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 855(1)(c) substituted (1.10.2009) by The Companies Act 2006 (Annual Return and Service Addresses) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/3000), reg. 2(1)

F2 S. 855(1)(d) substituted (1.10.2009) for s. 855(1)(d)(e) by The Companies Act 2006 (Annual Return and Service Addresses) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/3000), reg. 3

F3 S. 855(1)(f) inserted (1.10.2009) by virtue of The Companies Act 2006 (Annual Return and Service Addresses) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/3000), reg. 4(1)

F4 S. 855(4) inserted (1.10.2009) by The Companies Act 2006 (Annual Return and Service Addresses) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/3000), reg. 4(2)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Ss. 854-859 modified (22.2.2008) by The Northern Rock plc Transfer Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/432), art. 17(1), Sch. para. 2(n)

C2 Ss. 854-859 modified (8.00 a.m. on 29.9.2008) by the The Bradford & Bingley plc Transfer of Securities and Property etc. Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2546), art. 13(1)(3), Sch. 1 para. 2(n)

C3 Ss. 854-859 modified (9.30 a.m on 7.10.2008) by The Heritable Bank plc Transfer of Certain Rights and Liabilities Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2644), art. 26, Sch. 2 para. 2(n)

C4 Ss. 854-859 modified (retrospective to 30.3.2009 at 8.00 a.m.) by The Amendments to Law (Resolution of Dunfermline Building Society) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/814), arts. 1(2), 7, Sch. para. 2(n)

C5 S. 855 applied (with modifications) (1.10.2009) by The Limited Liability Partnerships (Application of Companies Act 2006) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1804), regs. 2, 30 (with Sch. 1 paras. 15, 34, 35)

C6 Ss. 854-859 applied (with modifications) (1.10.2009) by The Unregistered Companies Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2436), regs. 3-5, Sch. 1 para. 13 (with transitional provisions and savings in regs. 7, 9, Sch. 2)

Commencement Information

I1 S. 855 wholly in force at 1.10.2009; s. 855 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 1300; s. 855 in force for specified purposes at 20.1.2007 by S.I. 2006/3428, art. 3(3) (subject to art. 5, Sch. 1 and with arts. 6, 8, Sch. 5); s. 855 otherwise in force at 1.10.2009 by S.I. 2008/2860, art. 3(m) (with arts. 5, 7, 8, Sch. 2) (as amended by S.I. 2009/1802, art. 18)