{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-office-address-rectification-of-register-regulations-2024/regulation-21/enacted",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-office-address-rectification-of-register-regulations-2024/regulation-21/enacted.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/233",
  "legislation_title": "The Registered Office Address (Rectification of Register) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-office-address-rectification-of-register-regulations-2024/enacted",
  "path": "regulation/21",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Offence of failure to comply with regulation 20",
  "text": "(1) If a company fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with regulation 20 an offence is committed by—\n(a) the company, and\n(b) every officer of the company that is in default.\n(2) For the purposes of this regulation a shadow director is treated as a director.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under this regulation is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale and, for continued contravention, a daily default fine not exceeding one-tenth of level 3 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "enacted",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Regs. 2-23 applied (with modifications) (4.3.2024) by 2006 c. 46, s. 1097A (as modified by S.I. 2009/1804, reg. 67 (as amended by S.I. 2024/234, regs. 1(2), 39; S.I. 2024/269, reg. 2(a) and (18.11.2025) by S.I. 2025/1116, regs. 1(2), 4(4); S.I. 2025/1118, reg. 2(g))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 21 in force at 4.3.2024, see reg. 1(2); S.I. 2024/269, reg. 2(z42)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 1121(3) of the Act for the meaning of “in default”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/233/regulation/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:34:04.523243+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."
}