Guide to changing a registered office

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Van-Geraghty
Company Secretarial Services | Corporate Governance | Compliance Tel: +353 (0) 505 34101 Email: vgeraghty@komsec.ie  

Keep this checklist in mind when considering moving your company’s registered office. It is not exhaustive but covers the principal areas you’ll need to consider.

General

  • Registered Office must be located in the Republic of Ireland.
  • All companies are required by law to file a notice of the change of Registered Office to the Companies Registration Office within 14 days of the change by filing a B2 Form.
  • If the Company has a registered “Business Name”, file the change by filing the relevant RBN form.
  • A PO Box is not acceptable – it must be a “physical location” as this is the place official documents, notices, court papers etc are required to be sent by law.
  • Arrange with An Post for correspondence to be re-directed.

Third Parties

  • If the Company holds shares in other companies, inform the relevant Company Secretaries so they can update their Statutory Registers.
  • Lease or formal arrangements with current registered office provider may need to be cancelled.
  • Notify utility providers (electricity, phone, gas, mobile phone, broadband, insurances etc) and make arrangements for transfer to new address.
  • Magazine/membership subscriptions
  • Advise Customers, Accountants/Auditor, Solicitor, Bank, Shareholders, suppliers and anyone you are in regular communication with.
  • If you have a car fleet, the Registration (Log) Books for vehicles must be sent to your local Motor Taxation Office together with a note detailing the change of name and/or address. Your details will then be updated and the Registration (Log) Books will be returned to you.

Registered Office & Official Publications

Registered Office – ensure company name is painted or affixed on the outside of the premises, in a conspicuous position, must be legible and easy to read.

Official publications – full company name to be published i.e. the only permissible abbreviations are allowed e.g.  “Ltd” for “Limited”,  “Teo” for “Teoranta”, “CLG” for “Company Limited by Guarantee etc) to be reflected on Letterheads, invoices, order forms, emails and website.

 

 

 

 

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Not just a tongue twister! The Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement & Regulatory Provisions) Act 2024

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Kathryn-Maybury
A post by Kathryn Maybury | Managing Director | KOMSEC Limited | Company Secretarial Services | Corporate Governance | Compliance | Tel: +353 (0) 1 2107595 Email: kmaybury@komsec.ie  

 

Not just a tongue twister! The Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Act 2024

 

Not quite sure this is the type of Christmas present I wanted to receive from an outgoing Minister in the wind-down (or is it wind-up) to Christmas!

Tuesday 03.12.2024 saw the commencement of possibly the longest named Act ever!  The above Act was commenced on 03.12.2024 and will give effect to 64 of the Act’s 90 provisions amending the Companies Act 2014.

A flavour of some of those 64 provisions are listed below.

  • Provision for the conduct of, and participation in, general meetings of a company or industrial and provident society by the use of electronic communications technology.
  • Provision to provide for additional grounds for involuntary strike off of companies.
  • Provision for the disapplication of the Probation of Offenders Act 1907 to an offence under section 343 of the Companies Act 2014.
  • Provision for an offence of obstructing, interfering with or impeding an officer of the Corporate Enforcement Authority.
  • Make certain amendments to the rescue process for small and micro companies.
  • Enable the Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority to issue an interim direction in certain circumstances.
  • Extend the list of competent authorities to which the Corporate Enforcement Authority may disclose information, books or documents under section 792 of the Companies Act 2014.
  • Enable specified bodies to disclose information to the Corporate Enforcement Authority under section 944Q of the Companies Act 2014.
  • Enable the Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority to use money paid into the reserve fund in accordance with section 919 of the Companies Act 2014 in the performance of its functions under section 934 of that Act.
  • Repeal certain provisions of the Companies Act 2014 and the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1893.

I will blog on what some of these changes mean in real life in January 2025.  Something for us all to look forward to in the New Year!

 

 

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