| Changes introduced on 1
October mean that every director must
provide Companies House with both their
usual residential address, and a 'service
address' for each directorship they hold.
A director may choose any service address,
including the company's registered office
or their own home address, but PO boxes or
DX numbers are not permitted. The
service address will be
publicly-available, but the residential
address will be protected information, and
even if the director chooses his home
address as the service address, that would
not be apparent from the public record.
This is designed to answer previous
concerns from directors, particularly
those operating in sensitive sectors,
about their home addresses being available
alongside their company accounts.
Residential addresses will only be made
available to prescribed regulatory
authorities such as the police and HM
Revenue and Customs (HMRC), and it may
also be made available to credit reference
agencies.
Existing directors' residential
addresses have remained on the register
and automatically became the service
address from 1 October. However, anyone
whose home address was placed on the
register on or after 1 January 2003 can
now apply for that address to be removed. |
