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Director service address service
From 1 October 2009, every director must provide Companies House with both their usual residential address and, for each directorship they hold, a service address. The service address for each directorship will be available to the public; the director's home address will only be given out to public authorities, such as HM Revenue & Customs or the police, and credit-reference agencies.
The director can take advantage of the option to have a service address on public record and for their residential address to be placed on the protected part of the register. Addresses on the public record on 30 September 2009 will become that person's service address on 1 October 2009 and will remain so until new details are supplied.
A director can choose any address as the service address (including the registered office of the company) but the address must be a place where documents can be delivered and a receipt can be provided if necessary. For example, PO Boxes and DX numbers are not allowed. If the director chooses to use their home as the service address the fact that the two addresses are the same will not be apparent from the public record.
Businesses should consider now, for each director, whether to:
- submit a service address to replace their home address in the company's register of directors, and on the public record at Companies House and/or
- apply to try and prevent disclosure of their home addresses to credit agencies. Directors at serious risk due to their company's activities can apply to the Companies House Registrar for their addresses
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