Board Minutes – Change of Registered Office from a Residential Address

The Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships (Protection and Disclosure of Information and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2024 became effective on 27 January 2025. These Regulations extend the ability for individuals to protect their usual residential address (URA) from public view at Companies House where it has previously been used by a company as its registered office address (ROA).

Use these board minutes to change a registered office away from a usual residential address

These board minutes can be used as evidence of a company decision to change its ROA from a URA and, in doing so, to facilitate protection of the URA. All other provisions relevant to changing a registered office address apply.

See Board Minutes - Change of Registered Office.

What the 2024 Regulations allow and what they do not

The Regulations expand the situations in which a person (usually a company officer, PSC, subscriber or member of a company) can apply to the registrar to have their URA protected so that it no longer appears on the public register.

The Regulations do not allow an individual to hide their URA from public view if it is the company’s current ROA.

Where a URA is protected, Companies House will leave the “outward” code of a postcode (the first 3 or 4 characters) on the register. Where an address does not include an outward code, the geographical area equivalent will be shown.

Companies House filing: SR01

The individual will need to file Form SR01 with Companies House.

How this relates to the ECCTA reforms

These Regulations follow the Economic Crime & Corporate Transparency Act 2023, which reformed the role and powers of the registrar to include the prevention of abuse of personal information on the companies register.

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