You may want to start and run a limited company or have a limited liability partnership in UK. In both the cases one thing you have to maintain- and that is a registered office. This office must be in a place that is legally valid. This is the dictation of the low attached to it. Not only this, you have to take care of some other formalities while maintaining this type of office UK. This article gives you a brief description of all these formalities.



It should be in a legally valid place

The registered office of a business firm in UK, Wales or Scotland must be in a legally valid place. Those who are running their business in UK should have it in authorized place within the country. Those who have their firms in Wales or Scotland should have it in the valid places within the boundary of these areas.

Displaying of address

The legal dictation attached to registered office says that the name of the company must be displayed in front of the office. Also the products of the company should have the address of the office labeled on them.

It is the official address of the company

Registered office of a company is regarded as its official address. All the mails from Companies Home are sent to this address. The company secretary is supposed to respond to these mails as and when necessary.

The address must be real

The address used as registered office must be a real one. However, it is not a must that the office should be in the same place from where the business is conducted. Apart from this, any change in the address of the registered office must be informed to the Companies Office. These are, in short, the formalities attached to this type of office.