C4C3Part 6A company's registered office F2and email address

Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F2

Words in Pt. 6 heading inserted (26.10.2023 for specified purposes, 4.3.2024 in so far as not already in force) by Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (c. 56), ss. 29(4), 219(1)(2)(b); S.I. 2024/269, reg. 2(w)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C4

Pts. 1-39 modified (31.12.2020) by Regulation (EC) No. 2157/2001, Art. AAA1(3) (as inserted by The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1298), regs. 1, 97 (with regs. 140-145) (as amended by S.I. 2020/523, regs. 1(2), 5(a)-(f)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1))

General

C1C286F1Duty to ensure registered office at appropriate address

1

A company must ensure that its registered office is at all times at an appropriate address.

2

An address is an “appropriate address” if, in the ordinary course of events—

a

a document addressed to the company, and delivered there by hand or by post, would be expected to come to the attention of a person acting on behalf of the company, and

b

the delivery of documents there is capable of being recorded by the obtaining of an acknowledgement of delivery.

3

If a company fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with this section an offence is committed by—

a

the company, and

b

every officer of the company who is in default.

4

A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction—

a

in England and Wales, to a fine;

b

in Scotland or Northern Ireland, to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale and, for continued contravention, a daily default fine not exceeding one-tenth of level 5 on the standard scale.

5

Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to a company during any period for which the address of its registered office is a default address nominated by virtue of section 1097A(3)(h).