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Section 246 Putting the address on the public recordF1C1C2

United Kingdom

(1)

If the registrar decides in accordance with section 245 that a director‘s usual residential address is to be put on the public record, the registrar must proceed as if each relevant company had given notice under section 167H—

(a)

stating a change in the director’s service address, and

(b)

stating the director’s usual residential address as their new service address.

(2)

The registrar must give notice of having done so—

(a)

to the director, and

(b)

to every relevant company.

(3)

The notice must state the date of the registrar’s decision to put the director’s usual residential address on the public record.

(4)

Where a director’s usual residential address has been put on the public record by the registrar under this section, for the period of five years beginning with the date of the registrar’s decision no service address may be registered for the director other than their usual residential address (but see subsection (5)).

(5)

Subsection (4)—

(a)

does not limit the service address that may be registered for the director under regulations under section 1097B (rectification of register), and

(b)

ceases to apply in relation to the director if a new service address is registered for the director under those regulations.

(6)

In this section “relevant company” means each company given notice under section 245(2)(b).

Annotations

Textual amendments

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S. 246 substituted (26.10.2023 for specified purposes, 4.3.2024 in so far as not already in force) by Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (c. 56), ss. 45, 219(1)(2)(b); S.I. 2024/269, reg. 2(z7)

Modifications

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Ss. 240-246 applied (with modifications) (1.10.2009) by The Limited Liability Partnerships (Application of Companies Act 2006) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1804), regs. 2, 19 (with Sch. 1 paras. 8-10, 34, 35) (as amended: (6.4.2016) by S.I. 2016/340, reg. 1(3), Sch. 3 para. 4; (30.6.2016) by S.I. 2016/599, reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 4); (4.3.2024) by S.I. 2024/234, regs. 1(2), 20(4)(b); S.I. 2024/269, reg. 2(a); (27.1.2025) by S.I. 2024/1377, regs. 1(2), 7; and (21.7.2025) by S.I. 2025/874, regs. 1(2)(a), 6(1))

C2

Ss. 240-246 applied (with modifications) (1.10.2009) by The Unregistered Companies Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2436), regs. 3-5, Sch. 1 para. 7 (with transitional provisions and savings in regs. 7, 9, Sch. 2) (as amended (21.3.2024) by The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (Consequential, Supplementary and Incidental Provisions) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/410), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 5(a))

Notes on Part 10

Modifications

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Pts. 1-39 modified (31.12.2020) by Regulation (EC) No. 2157/2001, Art. AAA1(3) (as inserted by The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1298), regs. 1, 97 (with regs. 140-145) (as amended by S.I. 2020/523, regs. 1(2), 5(a)-(f)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1))

C2

Pts. 1-39 (except for Pt. 7 and ss. 662-669), 45-47 extended (12.5.2011) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1265), art. 5(1), Sch. 1 para. 2