{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-disclosure-of-address-regulations-2009/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-disclosure-of-address-regulations-2009/regulation-13.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/214",
  "legislation_title": "The Companies (Disclosure of Address) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-disclosure-of-address-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Effect of a section 1088 application",
  "text": "(1) Paragraphs (2) to (4) apply in relation to a section 1088 application made under regulation 9.\n(2) The registrar must make the specified address unavailable for public inspection in the places on the register where the applicant has indicated, in the application, that it appears.\n(3) Where the specified address is a current address for the applicant that the company is required to maintain on the register, the registrar must make the specified address unavailable for public inspection where it appears on the register as such by replacing it with the service address provided by the applicant.\n(4) In any other case the registrar must make the specified address unavailable for public inspection by removing all elements of that address, except—\n(a) for a United Kingdom address—\n(i) the outward code from the postcode, or\n(ii) where the address on the register does not include the outward code from the postcode, any information in that address that denotes a geographical area which is equivalent to or larger than the area represented by the outward code of the postcode which applies to that address; and\n(b) for an address other than a United Kingdom address, the country or territory and the name of the next principal unit of geographical subdivision for that country or territory (e.g. the state, region, province, county, district, municipality or equivalent) if there is one included in that address as it appears on the register.\n(5) Where a section 1088 application has been made under regulation 10(1) and has been determined in favour of the applicant, the registrar must make all of the members’, former members’ or subscribers’ addresses unavailable for public inspection by removing the whole of those addresses.\n(6) Where a section 1088 application has been made under regulation 11(1) and has been determined in favour of the applicant, the registrar must make the specified address unavailable for public inspection by removing the whole address and, where the applicant is the chargee, replacing it with the service address provided by the applicant.\n(6A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) In this regulation—\n“specified address” means the address specified in the application as being the one to be made unavailable for public inspection; and\n“outward code” means the part of a postcode before the internal space but not the number and letters which come after that space.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 13 substituted (26.4.2018) by The Companies (Disclosure of Address) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/528), regs. 1(1), 4(6) (with reg. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 13(3) substituted (21.7.2025) by The Protection and Disclosure of Personal Information (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/874), regs. 1(2)(a), 5(9)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 13(6A) omitted (21.7.2025) by virtue of The Protection and Disclosure of Personal Information (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/874), regs. 1(2)(a), 5(9)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/214/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:18:25.603733+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."
}