{"id":6194,"date":"2019-07-03T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qualitycompanyformations.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6194"},"modified":"2024-01-30T10:59:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T10:59:53","slug":"what-is-the-role-of-companies-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qualitycompanyformations.co.uk\/blog\/what-is-the-role-of-companies-house\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the role of Companies House?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Additionally, Companies House is responsible for examining, storing, and updating company information, including statutory filings such as annual accounts and confirmation statements. Companies House makes this data available to the public, removes non-compliant companies from the register, and prosecutes directors who fail in their statutory duties.<\/p>\n
The UK has three separate legal systems \u2013 England & Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. As a result, Companies House<\/a> has three different registrar branches, each of which deals with companies incorporated in their own jurisdictions. A fourth office is located in London, but this serves only as an information centre where documents can be delivered and filed, and search services carried out on limited companies registered in the UK.<\/p>\n When setting up a limited company<\/a> in the UK, the location of its registered office address (i.e., official contact address) determines which Companies House branch deals with the incorporation and subsequent storing of company records. This factor also dictates which UK legal system the company is subject to during its entire existence:<\/p>\n Please note, however, that UK limited companies can base their operations in any UK jurisdiction. It is simply the registered office address that must remain in the country of incorporation throughout a company\u2019s existence.<\/p>\n An incredible amount of corporate information is stored at Companies House. In 2018 alone, the company register peaked at 4.1 million companies<\/a>. By ensuring that data on this register is as complete and reliable as possible, the Registrar endeavours to maintain a culture of corporate transparency in the UK.<\/p>\n The information and statistics available are used extensively by members of the public, businesses, public bodies, and other government departments and agencies.<\/p>\n \n
What Companies House branch should I use?<\/h4>\n
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What information is stored at Companies House?<\/h3>\n