Regulation 9 Application under section 1088 to make an address unavailable for public inspection by an individualF1
Where an individual's usual residential address is on the register, that individual may make a section 1088 application in respect of that address.
An individual may not make an application under paragraph (1)—
in respect of a current address that a company is required to maintain on the register unless the address appears on the register as the current address of that individual, in which case the application may only relate to the address where it appears on the register as such;
that would, if registered, require the registrar to make unavailable for public inspection—
any part of a copy of an order imposing a charge, instrument, deed or debenture, or
any address, or part thereof, forming part of a description of property or land subject to a charge, released from a charge, or that has ceased to form part of a company’s property or undertaking,
in either case, delivered for the purposes of the charge provisions; or
where registration of that application would require the registrar to make unavailable for public inspection a company’s name or any part of it.
Where an address in respect of which an individual wishes to make an application under paragraph (1) was the registered office address of a company at the time of its dissolution, an application may not be made in relation to the address where it appears on the register as such until after the expiry of the period of 6 months beginning on the day of that company’s dissolution.
In this regulation, the “charge provisions” means any of the provisions contained in—
Part 25 of the Act (company charges);
Part 12 of the 1985 Act (registration of charges);
Part 13 of the 1986 Order (registration of charges).
The application must contain—
the name and any former name of the applicant;
the email address of the applicant;
the usual residential address of the applicant that is to be made unavailable for public inspection;
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the name and registered number of each company in respect of which the applicant has indicated in the application that the applicant’s usual residential address was placed on the register;
in respect of each company falling within sub-paragraph (d)—
the name of the document in which that usual residential address appears on the register,
where that document is a form, the number and title of the form, and
the registration date of that document;
where the address to which the application relates is a current address for the applicant that the company is required to maintain on the register, the service address which is to replace the usual residential address where it appears on the register as such; and
the date of birth of the applicantF6.
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Annotations
Textual amendments
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Reg. 9 substituted (26.4.2018) by The Companies (Disclosure of Address) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/528), regs. 1(1), 4(2) (with reg. 8)
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Reg. 9(1)-(1C) substituted for reg. 9(1) (21.7.2025) by The Protection and Disclosure of Personal Information (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/874), regs. 1(2)(a), 5(6)(a)
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Reg. 9(2)(aa) inserted (21.7.2025) by The Protection and Disclosure of Personal Information (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/874), regs. 1(2)(a), 5(6)(b)
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Reg. 9(2)(c) omitted (27.1.2025) by virtue of The Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships (Protection and Disclosure of Information and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1377), regs. 1(2), 3(2)(b)(i)
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Reg. 9(2)(f) substituted (21.7.2025) by The Protection and Disclosure of Personal Information (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/874), regs. 1(2)(a), 5(6)(c)
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Reg. 9(2)(g): full stop substituted for word (27.1.2025) by The Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships (Protection and Disclosure of Information and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1377), regs. 1(2), 3(2)(b)(iii)
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Reg. 9(2)(h) omitted (27.1.2025) by virtue of The Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships (Protection and Disclosure of Information and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1377), regs. 1(2), 3(2)(b)(iv)