Articles must be adopted as part of the company registration process, so you will need to choose your articles before incorporation. Upon company formation, the articles become a matter of public record and can be viewed online via Companies House Service.<\/p>\n

Company members have the power to change the articles of association at any point after incorporation by passing a special resolution, which requires 75% of eligible votes to be cast in favour of the change. A copy of both the resolution and the revised or new articles must then be delivered to Companies House within 15 days of the resolution being passed.<\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The articles of association is a document that governs how a company is run. Containing a multitude of provisions, each of which is known as an ‘article’, this document serves as a \u2018rule book\u2019 that all company officers (directors and secretaries) and company members (shareholders or guarantors) must observe. Along with the memorandum of association,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[1238],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-registers-records-documents","category-1238","description-off"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n