The documents and deadlines that keep a company's public record current at Companies House — and the penalties, from fines to void charges, when filings are missed.
Nearly every significant corporate event leaves a trail at the registry, and the cost of missing a deadline ranges from automatic penalties to a security being void against creditors. This chapter starts with who bears the filing obligations and the annual confirmation statement, before working through the notifications required for new directors, changes of registered office, special resolutions and persons with significant control. It then covers the filings triggered by allotments and solvency-statement reductions of share capital, and the deadlines for annual accounts together with the civil and criminal consequences of filing them late. It closes with the Registrar's power to strike off a persistently non-compliant company, the 21-day regime for registering charges and what survives when registration fails, and how the filing rules apply to LLPs.
