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This is helpful for persons who may be at risk of personal
threat of harm because of their public profile or sensitive
occupation.
Recent legislative changes to the company register have made it
easier for individuals to remove or minimise the amount of
sensitive personal information available to members of the
public.
Removing a home address from Companies House register
Since late April 2018, directors, secretaries, people with
significant control and LLP members can apply to remove their home
address from the company register, if they had included it in
previous documentation, such as an earlier company director or
secretary appointment.
To remove a home address, individuals must submit form SR01
through the Companies House website (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/apply-to-remove-your-home-address-from-the-public-register-sr01).
To complete this application each applicant needs to know which
public documents contain the address they want to remove. These can
be found on the company register and include incorporation
documentation and forms appointing directors or terminating
directorships, amongst others.
There is a fee of £55 per document from which the
applicant wishes to remove their address. An alternative
correspondence address is required. However this could just
be given as the company's registered office to further protect
personal information. Since October 2009 a director or company
secretary could reference the registered office of the company as
the correspondence address for the director. The home address is
still provided to Companies House for ID purposes but is not
available on the public register.
Removing your date of birth from Companies House register
Similarly, from May 2015 the full date of birth of a director is
no longer shown on the public register, but instead held on a
private register. This marks a departure from previous practice, in
which the full date of the birth was shown on the company
register.
Companies House still requires the full date of birth in certain
circumstances, such as when incorporating a company, but this
information is now 'suppressed', meaning only the month and
year of birth are show on the company register.
This applies to all date of birth information Companies House
holds and the full date of birth is only disclosed in exceptional
circumstances, such as to credit reference agencies or the police.
This is helpful in reducing the amount of information available to
someone seeking to use a person's ID from Companies House
records.
These developments can help reduce the amount of previously
accessible data to members of the public and ID fraudsters,
reducing the risk in future to individuals involved with companies
or charitable companies. This in turn offers a greater degree of
protection than before against threats from disgruntled clients or
customers to those trying to operate companies in good faith and to
the best of their abilities.
The content of this article is intended to provide a general
guide to the subject matter. Specialist advice should be sought
about your specific circumstances.
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