The Companies (Address of Registered Office) Regulations 2016

Application to change a company registered office

This section has no associated Explanatory Memorandum

5.  Upon receiving an application, the registrar must either—

(a)dismiss the application if the registrar considers there is no reasonable chance of the application succeeding and notify the applicant of the decision under regulation 10; or

(b)give notice of the application to the company at—

(i)the address of its registered office;

(ii)the service address of every person who (to the registrar’s knowledge) is a director or secretary of the company;

(iii)the residential address of every person who (to the registrar’s knowledge) is a director of the company; and

(iv)an address specified by the company for communications in electronic form under paragraph 7 of Schedule 4 to the Act.