A registered office is a company's official address, published on the public register, where Companies House and HMRC send statutory post.
Every company must have one, it must sit in the jurisdiction of registration, and since the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act it must be an "appropriate address" where documents can be delivered and receipt acknowledged. A PO box alone will not satisfy that. It belongs to the company, not to any person in it.
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- Service address — A service address is the published correspondence address for a director, secretary or PSC, used instead of their home address.
- Appropriate address — An appropriate address is one where a delivered document would come to the attention of someone acting for the company, and where delivery can be acknowledged.
- Jurisdiction — A company's jurisdiction is the part of the UK it is registered in — England and Wales, Scotland, or Northern Ireland — and it cannot be changed after incorporation.
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