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Alternative record-keeping definition

What does Alternative record-keeping mean? In practice, alternative record-keeping describes a private company or LLP opting to keep specified statutory register information on the Companies House central register instead of maintaining its own internal registers. The mechanism is the statutory “election to keep information on the central register” introduced into Part 8 of the Companies Act 2006 by the Small Business, enterprise and Employment Act 2015. It has covered, for private companies, the registers of members, directors, directors’ usual residential addresses, secretaries and people with significant control (PSC); analogous provisions apply to LLPs. The option reduces on‑site administrative burdens and increases public...

Central register elections at Companies House for private companies and LLPs: statutory registers (members, directors, secretaries, PSC), procedures, duties, withdrawal, and ECCTA 2023 reforms (UK)

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Corporate transparency reform—intended repeal of Companies Act 2006, Part 8, Chapter 2A

Through the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (SBEEA 2015), the Companies Act 2006 (CA 2006) was revised to allow private companies and limited liability partnerships (LLPs) to place specified details on the registrar’s central register rather than keeping their own statutory registers. Schedule 5 to SBEEA 2015 introduced several amendments into CA 2006, most notably inserting a new CA 2006, Part 8, Chapter 2A. As part of its wider plan to further modernise Companies House significantly, the government brought forward the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA 2023), which obtained Royal Assent on 26 October 2023. Certain key provisions took legal effect on 4 March 2024 via The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2024, SI 2024/269. Section 51 and Schedule 2 of ECCTA 2023 contain substantive updates to the existing law which will, once fully commenced, remove requirements on a company to keep its own (local) register of directors, a register of directors’ residential addresses, a register of secretaries and a register of people with significant control (PSC)...

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