The Overseas Companies Regulations 2009

Company with existing registered branch

5.—(1) The following particulars about the branch, as they appeared on the register immediately before 1st October 2009, are treated as if delivered and registered under regulation 7—

(a) the address of the branch,

(b) the date on which it was opened,

(c) the business carried on at it,

(d) the name of the branch (if different from the company’s name),

(e) the name and service address of every person resident in the United Kingdom authorised to accept service of documents on behalf of the company in respect of the branch, or a statement that there is no such person,

(f) the list of persons authorised to represent the company as a permanent representative of the company in respect of the branch, together with the following particulars of each such person—

(i) name,

(ii) any former name,

(iii) service address, and

(iv) usual residential address,

(g) the extent of the authority of any person falling within paragraph (f), including whether that person is authorised to act alone or jointly, and

(h) if a person falling within paragraph (f) is not authorised to act alone, the name of any person with whom they are authorised to act.

(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(e) and (f)(iii), the individual’s usual residential address as registered immediately before 1st October 2009 is treated as a service address.