clickedon started this topic @ 15:30 on 03/01/2007
A quick heads-up to those of you with a website - the Companies Act's requirements on information you require on letterheads has been extended to emails and websites, as of 1/1/07.
This information includes:
- Company registration number
- Place of registration
- Registered office address
You should also include your VAT registration number and trade/professional body membership information, if applicable.
You can find out more at out-law.com:
http://www.out-law.com/page-431
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RE: Companies Act - New Legislation
SALGADO iNVESTIGATIONS | 04/01/2007 12:20 PM
This does not apply to sole traders only incorporated businesses
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RE: Companies Act - New Legislation
clickedon | 04/01/2007 02:13 PM
Indeed - there are other requirements that all businesses must follow, regardless of legal type, if selling goods online to consumers under the Distance Selling Regulations in addition to the changes made to the Companies Act.
It is always good practice to include a geographical address and telephone number on your website, along with anything else which would inspire more confidence in the organisation behind a website.
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RE: RE: Companies Act - New Legislation
busy man | 04/01/2007 04:34 PM
mm I am a bit suspicious of this " law ". For a start it is mentioned on a web site that says outlaw.
I saw the same thing on THE REGISTRY web site.
I have checked Companies House web site and they have no mention of it.
As far as I am aware, you only need your full details ( as already stated ) on the web site - not on emails
RE: RE: Companies Act - New Legislation
clickedon | 04/01/2007 08:43 PM
Originally posted by: busy man
mm I am a bit suspicious of this " law ". For a start it is mentioned on a web site that says outlaw.
I saw the same thing on THE REGISTRY web site.
I have checked Companies House web site and they have no mention of it.
As far as I am aware, you only need your full details ( as already stated ) on the web site - not on emails
Out-law.com* is a website run by the Pinsent Masons law firm, and is highly regarded by many as an authoritative source. Furthermore, if you have any doubts as to the legitimacy of their article they reference specific - named - regulations which you could research more fully if you believe it may affect you, and also links to official governmental websites for further reading.
Likewise, The Register is also highly regarded for tech-news. Whilst I'd never take the word of either site carte blanche when it comes to legal matters, I would certainly look a little further if it were something which may affect me.
*From http://www.out-law.com/page-304:
The name was chosen to reflect the attitude of the new media and e-commerce businesses which grew out-with mainstream business and which often saw themselves as outsiders in the business world. This is in stark contrast to the business insiders who tended to dominate in the 1980s. The team behind the site was anxious to avoid terms which contained e- or @ or other technology clichés; equally, legal jargon and clichés were shunned. This is a web site on which you'll find neither Latin maxims nor images of circuit boards, light bulbs and scales of justice.
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RE: Companies Act - New Legislation
SALGADO iNVESTIGATIONS | 04/01/2007 04:53 PM
Being suspicious is good, however check this out
http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/promotional/busStationery.shtml
Business stationery / Translations
Changes to business stationery rules
As from 1st January 2007 the following applies to –
Business Stationery
Whether in hard copy, electronic or any other form:
A company must state its name, in legible lettering, on the following -
* all the company's business letters;
* all its notices and other official publications;
* all bills of exchange, promissory notes, endorsements, cheques and orders for money or goods purporting to be signed by, or on behalf of, the company;
* all its bills of parcels, invoices, receipts and letters of credit
On all of its business letters, order forms or any of the company’s web sites*, the company must show in legible lettering –
* its place of registration
* registered number
* its registered office address
* and if it is being wound up, that fact,
*A web site is not a company’s web site if, it’s content is determined solely by persons other than the company, or it does not relate to the company, its business or operations
The above also applies to Limited Liability Partnerships.
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RE: RE: Companies Act - New Legislation
busy man | 04/01/2007 04:58 PM
Okay - yes its now on their web site but it wasn't last week.
You would have thought they would have posted before it was due to change - not after !!
RE: Companies Act - New Legislation
James Smith | 05/01/2007 09:24 AM
As background to this change, the Companies Act has been re-written. Rather than have a single day on which all the changes come into affect as we had with pensions and "A-day" we have for some reason got a "drip, drip, drip" approach to new rules over the next few years. This is just one of many. Fortunately most of he changes seem to be making things easier and not harder to do business, such as the need for only one participant in the company, ie I understand someone will be able to be the sole director and company secretary which isn’t currently possible.
Regards,
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01235 536 773
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