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Companies Act 2006: Changes to disclosure requirements

The current requirement is for the company name to appear legibly in a sign outside all its business premises, including the Registered Office, and in all business communications. This includes

  1. all business letters,
  2. all notices and other official publications,
  3. all websites,
  4. all bills of exchange, promissory notes, endorsements, cheques, orders for money or goods purporting to be signed by or on behalf of the company,
  5. all bills of parcels, invoices, receipts, letters of credit).

In addition, the company's business letters, order forms and websites have to include the company's place of registration, its registered number, and the address of its registered office.

A company’s name, v number, registered office and other particulars, currently required to be displayed on business letters and other documents, must now also be provided on electronic documents, as well as on any company website or order form

Source: DTI website Companies Act 2006: private company information

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