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New Legislation For the first time, Directors of UK companies may now keep their home address confidential. An interesting new piece of legislation in the Companies Act 2006 that is applicable from 1 October 2009 allows Directors of UK Limited Companies to file a Service Address for the public record. This is an important feature for all company directors enabling them to avoid the need to show their home address on the Companies House register. Directors will still be required to lodge their usual residential address with the Registrar but this information will be kept off the public record and made available only to approved public authorities such as Police and HMRC, along with certified credit reference agencies. Directors of existing companies will be able to file a service address after which their previously filed residential address will no longer appear on searches of current details. Directors of companies incorporated after 1 October 2009 will benefit further as the public record will show no historic details of their residential address. The service address may be situated anywhere as long as it is a real serviceable address. A PO Box address may not be used. Our Service There are clear advantages to using a service address particularly to protect one’s home and family from unwanted intrusion whether by mail or in person. It will especially benefit those who may be intending to change address, those who spend long periods away from home, and those involved in sensitive occupations. Our new Director Service Address Facility operates in much the same way as our well-established Registered Office Service. For a small annual fee of only £45+vat a director can use our office address in Cheshire as a registered service address. All public records at Companies House will show this address in searches carried out on your company, and any correspondence addressed to you will be forwarded to your specified location either in the UK or overseas unopened or dealt with according to your instructions. Where the forwarding address is within the UK, up to 15 items of mail per year will be forwarded free of charge. Should this limit be exceeded, we will charge an additional £1.50+vat per item. Where the forwarding address is outside the UK, we will charge postage only on the first 15 items of mail sent, and thereafter a charge of £1.50+VAT for each item. Under no circumstances will your forwarding
address or your residential address be divulged to a third party
without your express written consent unless in accordance with a
Court order or under direction from an official investigating authority.
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