Jan 1st company website legislation?

buglawton

Per today's FT, companies must now put their registered office address on their website (web page info must match company headed paper). FT points me to www.opsi.gov.uk to learn more - where you encounter a jumble of info and nothing about this as far as I can see.

Can anyone point to some organized info about this? In particular, are Sole Traders' websites included?

Savvy_Sue

Can't answer your question about sole traders, but I think the info you need will be somewhere here. If you'd already found that, post back and on Monday at work I'll try to find a summary in plain English.

Encantador

As I understood it, it only applies to Ltd co`s.

buglawton

That page mentions quite a few regulations about insolvency and also mentions having your company name and registered number on stationary & website, what it does not appear to say is that you have to have company's registered office address on your website. The FT article mentioned the new regs were to comply with an EU directive so maybe this is the right page - just can't see clear info on it.

digp

I read the samething somwhere too.....cant remember where tho, try news.google.com

buglawton

Found a better page via Google News as suggested
http://www.out-law.com/page-431
still does not make it clear if Sole Traders are affected in the same way as Registered Companies.

edda

See this link to Companies House website:

http://www.companieshouse.co.uk/promotional/busStationery.shtml

Info from local Business Link suggest it only applies to limited companies (plc and ltd) plud llp (limited liability partnerships)

HTH