The Service Address (Rectification of Register) Regulations 2024
UK Statutory Instrument 2024 No. 235 — creates 1 criminal offence.
- Made
- 29 February 2024
- In force from
- Not determined
- Extent
- Not stated
- Subject
- Corporate, financial services, company law, employment, charity, electoral and tax
- Made under
- Companies Act 2006, In accordance with sections 1097B(13) and 1290 of the Companies Act 2006
Explanatory note
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These Regulations make provision about the registrar’s powers to change the registered service address of company directors, secretaries and persons with significant control (“relevant persons”), where the registrar is not satisfied that the address meets the requirements of section 1141(1) and (2) of the Companies Act 2006 (c. 46). The Regulations allow the registrar to act on the registrar’s own motion or on application. Part 2 requires the registrar to nominate a default address for the purposes of these Regulations. Part 3 provides for applications to be made to the registrar to change a relevant person’s registered service address and the notice to be given about the application. Part 4 provides for the registrar to change a registered service address after having given prior notice to the relevant person and the relevant company. Part 5 provides for the registrar to change a registered service address without giving prior notice. Part 6 provides for the registrar to be able to change a registered service address from one default address to another default address. Part 7 provides for appeals against the registrar’s decisions under these Regulations. Part 8 provides for the effect of changing a relevant person’s registered service address to a default address nominated by the registrar. Part 9 provides that a relevant person who has had their registered service address changed to a default address commits an offence if they do not take all reasonable steps to ensure that notice is given by the relevant company to change the address to a new address within the compliance period. No impact assessment has been prepared in connection with these Regulations.
Offences created by this instrument
- If a relevant person fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with regulation 18 an offence is committed by— a the… regulation 19(1) · Status not determined · Strict liability
What Parliament said about it
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- Service Address (Rectification of Register) Regulations 2024 Lords · Grand Committee · 19 February 2024
- Service Address (Rectification of Register) Regulations 2024
Lords · Grand Committee · 19 February 2024 · Lord Johnson of Lainston
That the Grand Committee do consider the Service Address (Rectification of Register) Regulations 2024.
- Draft Limited Liability Partnerships (Application of Company Law) Regulations 2024 Draft Service Address (Rectification of Register) Regulations 2024 Draft Principal Office Address (Rectification of Register) Regulations 2024 Draft Registered Office Address (Rectification of Register) Regulations 2024
Commons · General Committees · 26 February 2024 · Justin Madders (Ellesmere Port and Neston) (Lab)
It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair this evening, Mrs Murray. I thank the Minister for his opening remarks and, indeed, for his work in this policy area over many years. I would hesitate to describe him as an expert in economic crime, but he is clearly someone one who has a long record of tackling economic crime, and today we see the fruits of his labour. I also thank hon. Members for attending this evening. As the Minister said, the regulations all derive from the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023, which received Royal Assent in October. Each set of regulations under…
- Draft Limited Liability Partnerships (Application of Company Law) Regulations 2024 Draft Service Address (Rectification of Register) Regulations 2024 Draft Principal Office Address (Rectification of Register) Regulations 2024 Draft Registered Office Address (Rectification of Register) Regulations 2024
Commons · General Committees · 26 February 2024 · Kevin Hollinrake
I pay tribute to the hon. Gentleman’s work in this policy area and on the particular case he referred to. Some of the sanctions available under the 2023 Act include custodial sentences, of course, which I think he would welcome. There is no official totting-up system as he describes it, but the Insolvency Service, for example, can take a number of different offences into account in judging whether somebody is fit to be a director in the UK. Nevertheless, the hon. Gentleman raises an important issue and I am happy to have a conversation with him offline to see what else might be done. We have…
- Draft Limited Liability Partnerships (Application of Company Law) Regulations 2024 Draft Service Address (Rectification of Register) Regulations 2024 Draft Principal Office Address (Rectification of Register) Regulations 2024 Draft Registered Office Address (Rectification of Register) Regulations 2024 Commons · General Committees · 26 February 2024
- Draft Limited Liability Partnerships (Application of Company Law) Regulations 2024 Draft Service Address (Rectification of Register) Regulations 2024 Draft Principal Office Address (Rectification of Register) Regulations 2024 Draft Registered Office Address (Rectification of Register) Regulations 2024
Commons · General Committees · 26 February 2024 · Kevin Hollinrake
Thank you, Mrs Murray. I would love to respond to that point, but clearly I would be told I was out of order by the Chair if I did so. To be clear on limited partnerships, I think the hon. Member for Glenrothes mentioned Scottish LLPs, but I think I am right in saying that he meant Scottish limited partnerships. There is a distinction between English, Welsh, Northern Irish and Scottish limited partnerships. The main difference between them is that SLPs have their own legal personality, separate from the partners in them, while English LPs do not. Unlike English and Welsh LPs, SLPs are…
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