News: Companies House privacy reforms - home addresses

[eteb3]

Companies House has now made it possible to obscure or replace your home address if it appears on a company's public file - unless the address is or was the registered office address.

This is under the new section 1088 CA2006

Cost is £30 for each document in question. A serving officer must supply an alternative service address to replace their home address.

The guidance doesn't give much detail but I infer this will apply to directors' addresses, PSCs' addresses, charge documents, etc.

Apply to remove your home address from the Companies House register (SR01)

Apply as an individual under section 1088 to remove your home address, or part of it, from the public Companies House register.

www.gov.uk

 

[JEREMY HAWKE]

Absolutely lovely

What type of person what's to withhold their contact details.

Yeh we already know!

 

[DQ24]

Cost is £30 for each document in question. A serving officer must supply an alternative service address to replace their home address.

How is 'supplying an alternative service address to replace their home address' any different to using a mail forwarding/correspondence address service company for your company's address? That's what most companies who don't want to put their home address on Companies House do. This sounds like it's the same thing, because when you 'supply and alternative service address', surely that address will be from a company that provides a correspondence address anyway.

 

[tony84]

Absolutely lovely

What type of person what's to withhold their contact details.

Yeh we already know!

Im not sure not wanting your home address on documents in the public eye makes you a dodgy business.
I dont want my home address on anything. I have an office, I rarely go anymore it is probably empty 28 days a month. But I get people just turning up without an appointment - which is fine, but I would be a bit miffed if someone turned up at my home address.

 

[fisicx]

But don't forget the other change which says the correspondence address must have someone who can receive documents:

Get ready for changes to UK company law – Companies House

We’re aiming to introduce the first set of changes brought in by the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act on 4 March 2024. Here’s what you need to know.

companieshouse.blog.gov.uk

Can't use a PO box any more.

 

[Mark T Jones]

But don't forget the other change which says the correspondence address must have someone who can receive documents:

Get ready for changes to UK company law – Companies House

We’re aiming to introduce the first set of changes brought in by the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act on 4 March 2024. Here’s what you need to know.

companieshouse.blog.gov.uk

Can't use a PO box any more.

You never could (though some did, as CH never checked)

It always had to be a physical address, now it has to be manned (or womanned)

On the changes, I see why people will chose not to give a home address, but removing historic addresses looks a bit dodge...

 

[WaveJumper]

I just wonder if it will make any difference to those doggy dealers out there

 

[eteb3]

How is 'supplying an alternative service address to replace their home address' any different to using a mail forwarding/correspondence address service company for your company's address?

1. Because the registered company address is unaffected: this is about addresses relating to individuals
2. Because this provision allows individuals to efface their home address from the register retrospectively, whereas your suggestion is only any use for privacy if opted for from the beginning

 

[eteb3]

the correspondence address must have someone who can receive documents

It always had to be a physical address, now it has to be manned (or womanned)

This is true for a company's registered office: section 86 states in terms that it must be possible to obtain acknowledgment of delivery there (though I’ve speculated on Ozzy’s earlier thread on this that the requirement could possibly be met by some electronic or mechanical means in lieu of a man/woman on site)

Service addresses for individuals have a different criterion, in s. 1141, namely that documents may be “effectively served on that person” there.

It may be this amounts to the same thing, but I suspect a document is probably effectively served if posted through my letterbox. Unless it means personal service?

Perhaps @Newchodge or @Michael Loveridge can assist.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/46/section/86
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/46/section/1141

 

[eteb3]

CH have today updated their reforms timeline.

Unhelpfully they don't say what's changed, but it's here if anyone wants it.