Registered Office
Protect your personal address with our Registered Office service. Get all your documents delivered without needing to put your address on the public register.
What is a Registered Office?
Every company registered with Companies House needs a Registered Office, where Companies House, HMRC and legal authorities can serve official documents and assume that they have been received by the company directors. But this does not need to be your trading address.
If you work from home and do not wish your home address to be on public records, or if you don't have a suitable address, Duport can provide you with a Registered Office service.
We also keep details of your company's shareholders and officers, which must be available for public scrutiny at your Registered Office, so you must keep Duport Associates up to date with all this information.
Our Registered Office fee covers the cost of digital forwarding documents via email. You therefore release Duport Associates in this respect from the protection of postal secrecy, as it is necessary to provide our services. Personal mail, including letters from banks are not included in the standard service but can be additionally paid for by upgrading to the Mail Forwarding service.
Upgrading to the Mail forwarding service means that letters sent by Companies House, HMRC and other official bodies will be posted to you, unopened, via Royal Mail services.
Our Mail Forwarding service will forward all business and personal mail, unopened via Royal Mail. We will do our best to filter out any mail considered as 'junk mail' (mass mail drops, catalogues etc) and return them to sender. The postage costs of forwarding trade mail, via Royal Mail, will be billed monthly. We only recover the costs we have incurred in postage. We do not accept parcels and deliveries will be refused and returned to source.
Using Duport as your Registered Office can keep your home address out of public records, and provide your company with a suitable address within the UK.
A Registered Office with Digital Mail Forwarding is included as standard with our packages.
Further Details
Ordering
This product may be ordered as part of a Limited Company, LLP, Charity or Non-Profit formation. It can also be added as an additional service for a Limited Company, LLP, Charity or Non-Profit that's already been formed.
It is included as standard with our packages.
Order nowProcess Time
We can process immediately upon receipt of your ID in accordance with UK money laundering regulation.
Availability
This service is available to all companies registered with Companies House.
Please note our registered office address is located in Bristol, England.
Important Notes
Duport provide a Registered Office service to clients at its discretion. To legally provide this service in accordance with UK money laundering regulations you will be asked to supply identification verifying your identity.
This service is renewable annually. A renewal invoice is issued each year several weeks prior to the renewal date. If payment is not received this service ceases and Duport will notify Companies House.
Duport Associates Limited discharges its responsibility when documents are handed over to the public mail service, addressed to the last postal address provided to us. Our Registered Office service does not cover completion of your company's confirmation statement (this is included in our Company Filing service).
Users of our Registered Office service must keep us informed of any change to their forwarding address and telephone or email contact points. If clients' mail is returned undelivered we will be obliged to inform the appropriate authorities of our inability to establish contact with the officers of your company.
A renewal invoice is issued each year several weeks prior to the renewal date. If payment is not received this service ceases. You must immediately notify us of your new registered office so we can inform Companies House.
In the event that a new registered office address is not provided to us we are obliged to inform Companies House of your last known contact details and advise them that your company no longer seems to have a qualifying registered office. If they then determine that your company is no longer compliant with the registration requirements for a limited company they may decide to remove your company from the Register.
Please note that our Registered Office service does not include a Service Address. A Service Address is a separate address that can be used by company directors to receive official correspondence from HMRC and Companies House, protecting their private residential address from being listed on public records.
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Whether you want a simple service where key documents are emailed to you, or a comprehensive service where all mail is sent on, Duport have the right option for you.
Need some help?
If you need a little advice on the best options for you, or have a question that's not in our FAQ, Duport's expert team are here to help. Give us a call during office hours or email us any time and we'll help you out.
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