86. Duty to ensure registered office at appropriate address

(1) A company must ensure that its registered office is at all times at an appropriate address.

(2) An address is an "appropriate address" if, in the ordinary course of events -

(a) a document addressed to the company, and delivered there by hand or by post, would be expected to come to the attention of a person acting on behalf of the company, and

(b) the delivery of documents there is capable of being recorded by the obtaining of an acknowledgement of delivery.

(3) If a company fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with this section an offence is committed by -

(a) the company, and

(b) every officer of the company who is in default.

(4) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction -

(a) in England and Wales, to a fine;

(b) in Scotland or Northern Ireland, to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale and, for continued contravention, a daily default fine not exceeding one-tenth of level 5 on the standard scale.

(5) Subsection (1) doe

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