Regulation 20 Duty to move registered office from default address within compliance period

(1)

This regulation applies to a company that has had the address of its registered office changed to a default address under either—

(a)

regulation 7 or 10, or

(b)

the 2016 Regulations and has not given a notice under section 87 of the Act before these Regulations come into force.

(2)

The company must, before the end of the compliance period, give a notice under section 87 of the Act to change the address of its registered office to a new address.

(3)

The “compliance period” is—

(a)

in relation to a company whose registered office address has been changed under regulation 7 or 10, the period of 28 days beginning with the day on which the change was made, and

(b)

in relation to a company whose registered office address has been changed under the 2016 Regulations, the period of 28 days beginning with the day on which these Regulations come into force,

unless an appeal is brought within that period.

(4)

If an appeal is brought within that period, the “compliance period” is whichever of the following ends later—

(a)

the period mentioned in paragraph (3), and

(b)

the period beginning with the day on which the change is made and ending with—

(i)

the end of the period of 7 days beginning with the day on which the appeal is finally determined in the registrar’s favour, or

(ii)

the day on which the appeal is withdrawn.