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Version status: Amended
Version date: 27 January 2023 - onwards
Version 3 of 3

45 Registrar's power to change a director's service address

This format of the bill is taken from the text of stage 1st reading published on 22 September 2022 by House of Commons

For section 246 of the Companies Act 2006 substitute -

"246 Putting the address on the public record

(1) If the registrar decides in accordance with section 245 that a director's usual residential address is to be put on the public record, the registrar must proceed as if each relevant company had given notice under section 167H -

(a) stating a change in the director's service address, and

(b) stating the director's usual residential address as their new service address.

(2) The registrar must give notice of having done so -

(a) to the director, and

(b) to every relevant company.

(3) The notice must state the date of the registrar's decision to put the director's usual residential address on the public record.

(4) Where a director's usual residential address has been put on the public record by the registrar under this section, for the period of five years beginning with the date of the registrar's decision no service address may be registered for the director other than their usual residential address (but see subsection (5)).

(5) Subsection (4) -

(a) does not limit the service address that may be registered for the director under regulations under section 1097B (rectification of register), and