{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-9A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-9A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/46",
  "legislation_title": "Companies Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006",
  "path": "section/9A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9A",
  "heading": "Required information about the subscribers",
  "text": "(1) The required information about a subscriber who is an individual is—\n(a) name;\n(b) a service address.\n(2) The required information about a subscriber that is a body corporate, or a firm that is a legal person under the law by which it is governed, is—\n(a) corporate or firm name;\n(b) a service address.\n(3) In subsection (1) “name” means the individual’s forename and surname.\n(4) Where a subscriber is a peer or an individual usually known by a title, that title may be stated in the application for the registration of the company instead of the subscriber’s forename and surname.\n(5) The Secretary of State may by regulations—\n(a) amend this section so as to change the required information about a subscriber;\n(b) repeal subsection (4).\n(6) Regulations under this section are subject to affirmative resolution procedure.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 9A inserted (26.10.2023 but only so far as it confers a power to make regulations or relates to the exercise of the power, otherwise prosp.) by Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (c. 56), ss. 3(3), 219(1)(2)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/46/section/9A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:13:40.060156+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}