Guidance Note: Changes to Statutory Registers

The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA) has brought in many changes in relation to how companies operate, and the level of transparency required. One of the most significant changes is that from 18th November 2025, the following statutory registers are abolished:

• register of directors,
• register of directors’ usual residential addresses,
• register of secretaries, and
• register of Persons with Significant Control.

Rather than maintaining these registers themselves, from 18th November 2025, companies must submit the relevant information to Companies House, where it will be filed and held on the central register at Companies House.

Companies are still required to maintain a register of members which must be maintained as an internal local register at a company’s registered office address or SAIL under the Companies Act 2006.

This guidance note is an overview summary and considers:

• what has changed,
• why the registers are being removed,
• what information must be recorded going forward,
• a worked example – register of directors,
• the register of members, and 
• continuing to maintain internal company registers of information after 18th November 2025.

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