Constitutional Reform Act 2005

This is our most popular package with UK residents, and includes: -

The registration of your company from scratch using your own registered office address, and appoint your own candidates to the roles of director, secretary (if needed), and shareholder;

The standard capital on formation is £1.00, this is divided into 1.00 ordinary share valued at £1.00 (a minimum of one share must be issued);

The formation of a limited company usually takes as little as four to six hours from the time that your application and payment are received by Coddan;

The government fee for incorporation is included in the price of this package;

The following documents, which need to be printed and signed, will be emailed to you upon formation of your company: -

A certificate of incorporation (requires PDF file reader);

The memorandum & articles of association (requires MS-Word file reader);

The first meeting of the board of directors (requires MS-Word file reader);

Share certificates and a company register (requires MS-Word file reader).

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No Annual Charges

The Deluxe limited company package is a fast and easy option, it is ideal for the UK, EU, and international small to medium businesses who wish to appoint a nominee director and a nominee secretary in order to maintain anonymity, and it includes: -

Incorporation of your company from scratch using one of our registered office addresses in London, our nominee director and nominee secretary. We can appoint your own candidate(s) to the role of shareholder(s), or you can appoint a nominee sharholder provided by Coddan;

The standard capital on formation is £1.00, this is divided into 1.00 ordinary share valued at £1.00 (a minimum of one share must be issued);

The formation of a limited company usually takes as little as four to six hours from the time that your application and payment are received by Coddan;

The government fee for incorporation is included in the price of this package;

The provision of a registered office address for 12 months is included in the price of this package (our registered office address service is charged annually);

The provision of a nominee secretary for 12 months is included in the price of this package (our nominee secretary service is charged annually);

The provision of a nominee director for 12 months is also included in the price of this package (our nominee director service is charged annually);

The following two hard bound copies of corporate documents, will be posted to you upon formation of your company: -

A laminated copy of the certificate of incorporation of your company;

A hard bound copy of the memorandum and articles of association;

A hard bound copy of the minutes of the first meeting of directors;

Share certificates, and your company register;

The general power of attorney signed by a nominee director;

Pre-signed, undated resignation letter from a nominee director;

The agreement for the provision of nominee service and indemnification of nominee.

Deluxe Package

£ 557.00

Annual Maintenance Fee £525.00

A private company limited by shares in England and Wales must have at least one director, one shareholder, and may have a secretary.

You need at least one person to form this type of company. If there is only one director, and that director is a natural person in your company, that director can also act as the secretary.

A company must have at least one director who is a natural person. This requirement is met if the office of director is held by a natural person as a corporation sole or otherwise by virtue of an office.

You can register a sole director' company, if you are familiar with the secretaries duties and responsibilities, because all of them belongs to a sole director.

The directors and secretary of your company can also be shareholders.

The Companies Act imposes no restriction on the minimum age of company directors. However Companies House will actively discourage the appointment of anyone under the age of 16 from taking up a company directorship on the grounds that the individuals concerned may not fully understand the legal liabilities that go with the position and for the most part will not have the experience necessary to perform the duties of a company director.

Under the Companies Act 2006, there is no restriction on any or all of the members/shareholders being from an overseas country (i.e. outside the United Kingdom in terms of residency, domicile, citizenship, place of incorporation or all or any of those concepts).

There is no requirement for the officers of your company to be UK citizens or residents, nor for them to hold valid work permits.

Owning, or being an officer of a UK company does not, however, grant you any right to live or work in the UK if you are a foreign national.

Your company must have a registered office address within England or Wales; this is the official address of your company and will be on the public record as such.

Your company must hold its official company documents at its registered office address: its register of shareholders, and its constitutional documents.

So long as you maintain a registered office address in England or Wales, you can conduct your business from any place in the world: you do not have to run your business from your registered office address.

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Constitutional Reform Act 2005

2005 Chapter 4 - continued

SCHEDULE 12, THE JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS COMMISSION - continued

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PART 2

THE COMMISSION

Status of the Commission and its property

(1) The Commission is not to be regarded-

(a) as the servant or agent of the Crown, or

(b) as enjoying any status, immunity or privilege of the Crown.

(2) The property of the Commission is not be regarded as property of, or property held on behalf of, the Crown.

Powers

(1) The Commission may do anything calculated to facilitate, or incidental or conducive to, the carrying out of any of its functions.

(2) But the Commission may not borrow money except with the agreement of the Lord Chancellor.

(3) Nothing in this Schedule is to be read as limiting the generality of sub-paragraph (1).

Committees

(1) The Commission may establish committees.

(2) A committee of the Commission may establish sub-committees.

(3) A person may not be a member of a committee or sub-committee unless he is a Commissioner.

(4) The Commission may delegate functions to a committee, and a committee may delegate functions (including functions delegated to them) to a sub-committee.

(5) The function of making a selection under this Part of this Act may be delegated only to a committee or sub-committee whose members include at least one judicial member and one lay member.

(6) In sub-paragraphs (2) to (5) references to a committee do not include references to a selection panel appointed under section 70 or 79.

Procedure and proceedings

(1) The Commission may regulate its own procedure, and the procedure of its committees and sub-committees, including quorum.

(2) But the quorum of a committee or sub-committee to which the Commission's function of making a selection under this Part of this Act has been delegated must not be less than 3.

(3) The validity of proceedings of the Commission or a committee or sub-committee is not affected by-

(a) a vacancy among the members, or

(b) a defect in the appointment of a member.

Staff

(1) The Commission-

(a) must appoint a chief executive, and

(b) may appoint such other staff as it considers necessary to assist in the performance of its functions.

(2) The Commission must not appoint a person as chief executive unless the Lord Chancellor approves the appointment.

(3) Staff are to be-

(a) appointed on terms and conditions determined by the Commission, and approved by the Lord Chancellor, and

(b) paid by the Commission in accordance with provision made by or under the terms of appointment.

(4) In determining the terms and conditions the Commission must have regard to the desirability of keeping remuneration and the other terms and conditions broadly in line with those applying to employment in the civil service of the State.

(5) In Schedule 1 to the Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11) (kinds of employment to which a scheme under section 1 of the Act may apply), at the end of the list of "Royal Commissions and other Commissions" insert-

"Judicial Appointments Commission."

(6) The Commission must pay to the Minister for the Civil Service, at such times as he may direct, such sums as he may determine in respect of any increase attributable to sub-paragraph (5) in the sums payable out of money provided by Parliament under the Superannuation Act 1972.

(7) Staff of the Commission are not to be regarded as-

(a) servants or agents of the Crown, or

(b) enjoying any status, immunity or privilege of the Crown.

Arrangements for assistance

(1) The Commission may make arrangements with such persons as it considers appropriate for assistance to be provided to it.

(2) Arrangements may include the paying of fees to such persons.

(3) No arrangements may be made under this paragraph unless approved by the Lord Chancellor.

Appointments and arrangements by the Lord Chancellor

(1) The Lord Chancellor may appoint a person to serve as chief executive until the first appointment under paragraph 22(1)(a) takes effect.

(2) A chief executive serving under sub-paragraph (1) may incur expenditure and do other things (including appointing staff and making arrangements for assistance under paragraph 23) in the name and on behalf of the Commission-

(a) before the membership of the Commission is first constituted in accordance with paragraph 1, and

(b) thereafter, until the Commission determines otherwise.

(3) A chief executive's powers under sub-paragraph (2) are exercisable subject to any directions given to him by the Lord Chancellor.

(1) The Lord Chancellor may-

(a) appoint persons to serve as members of the Commission's staff;

(b) make arrangements in the name and on behalf of the Commission for other assistance to be provided to the Commission.

(2) The Lord Chancellor may not exercise his powers under sub-paragraph (1) later than-

(a) the end of 3 years after the day on which the Commission is first constituted in accordance with paragraph 1, or

(b) such earlier time as the Commission may determine.

(3) If there is a chief executive of the Commission the Lord Chancellor may not exercise his powers under sub-paragraph (1) without the agreement of the chief executive.

Power to transfer staff to employment of the Commission

(1) The Lord Chancellor may by regulations provide for the employment of any relevant person to be transferred to the Commission.

(2) A relevant person is any person who, immediately before the date prescribed in regulations under sub-paragraph (1), is-

(a) employed in the civil service of the State, and

(b) providing assistance to the Commission in pursuance of arrangements made under paragraph 23 or 25.

(3) But a person is not a relevant person if-

(a) his employment in the civil service ends on the day immediately before the date referred to in sub-paragraph (2), or

(b) he is withdrawn from work with the Commission with effect from that date.

(4) Before making any regulations under this paragraph the Lord Chancellor must consult such organisations as appear to him to represent the interests of persons likely to be affected by the regulations.

(5) The Lord Chancellor may only exercise his power under sub-paragraph (1)-

(a) before the membership of the Commission is first constituted in accordance with paragraph 1, and

(b) with the agreement of the Commission, during the period of 3 years beginning with the day on which the Commission is first constituted in accordance with that paragraph.

Delegation

(1) The Commission may delegate functions to-

(a) any of its staff,

(b) any person with whom arrangements are made under paragraph 23 or 25, or

(2) A committee, a sub-committee or the chief executive may delegate functions (including functions delegated to them or him) to any of the persons listed at sub-paragraph (1).

(3) Sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) do not apply to the functions of the Commission, or of a selection panel appointed under section 70 or 79, of making a selection under this Part of this Act.

Delegation and contracting out of superannuation functions

(1) Section 1(2) of the Superannuation Act 1972 (c. 11) (delegation of functions relating to civil service superannuation schemes by Minister for the Civil Service to another officer of the Crown etc.) has effect as if the reference to an officer of the Crown other than a Minister included a reference to the Commission's chief executive.

(2) Any administration function conferred on the chief executive under section 1(2) of that Act (in accordance with sub-paragraph (1)) may be exercised by, or by employees of, any person authorised by the chief executive.

(3) "Administration function" means a function of administering schemes-

(a) made under section 1 of that Act, and

(b) from time to time in force.

(4) The chief executive may, under sub-paragraph (2), authorise a person to exercise administrative functions-

(a) to their full extent or to a specified extent;

(b) in all cases or in specified cases;

(5) An authorisation under sub-paragraph (2)-

(a) is to be treated for all purposes as given by virtue of an order under section 69 of the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 (c. 40) (contracting out of functions of Ministers and office-holders);

(b) may be revoked at any time by the Commission or the chief executive.

Inspection of documents

(1) The Commission must permit any person authorised by the Lord Chancellor to inspect or make copies of accounts or other documents which in the opinion of the Lord Chancellor relate to costs and expenditure of the Commission.

(2) The Commission must provide such explanation of accounts or documents inspected or copied by any person under this paragraph as that person or the Lord Chancellor may require.

Financial provisions and directions

(1) The Lord Chancellor must pay to the Commission such sums as he may determine are appropriate for, or in connection with, the exercise by it of its functions.

(2) The Lord Chancellor may by direction require the Commission-

(a) not to incur costs and expenditure in excess of a specified amount without his consent;

(b) to follow specified procedures in relation to its costs and expenditure.

(3) A direction under sub-paragraph (2) may relate to all of the Commission's costs and expenditure, or to costs and expenditure of a specified description.

Accounts and audit

(1) The Commission must keep proper accounts and proper records in relation to them.

(2) The Commission must prepare a statement of accounts in respect of each financial year.

(3) The statement must give a true and fair view of the state of the Commission's affairs at the end of the financial year, and of its income and expenditure and cash flows in the financial year.

(4) The statement must be in compliance with any directions given by the Lord Chancellor with the Treasury's consent as to the information to be contained in the statement, the manner in which the information is to be presented or the methods and principles according to which the statement is to be prepared.

(5) The Commission must send the statement to the Lord Chancellor at such time as he may direct.

(6) The Lord Chancellor must, on or before 31 August in any year, send to the Comptroller and Auditor General the statement prepared by the Commission for the financial year last ended.

(7) The Comptroller and Auditor General must examine, certify and report on the statement sent to him under sub-paragraph (6) and must lay copies of it and of his report before each House of Parliament.

Reports

(1) The Commission must, as soon as practicable after the end of each financial year, provide to the Lord Chancellor a report about the performance of its functions during that year.

(2) After consulting the Lord Chief Justice, the Lord Chancellor may by direction require the Commission to deal, in reports or a particular report under sub-paragraph (1), with matters specified in the direction.

(3) The Commission must, as soon as practicable after a direction by the Lord Chancellor under this sub-paragraph, provide to the Lord Chancellor a report about any matter or matters specified in the direction.

(4) The Lord Chancellor must lay before each House of Parliament a copy of any report provided to him under sub-paragraph (1).

(5) The Commission must publish any report once copies of it have been laid under sub-paragraph (4).

Documentary evidence

The application of the seal of the Commission is to be authenticated by the signature of any Commissioner or member of staff of the Commission who has been authorised (whether generally or specifically) for the purpose.

Any contract or instrument which, if entered into or executed by an individual, would not need to be under seal, may be entered into or executed on behalf of the Commission by any person who has been authorised (whether generally or specifically) for the purpose.

A document purporting to be-

(a) duly executed under the seal of the Commission, or

(b) signed on behalf of the Commission,

is to be received in evidence and, unless the contrary is proved, taken to be executed or signed in that way.

General

(1) "Financial year" in this Schedule, means-

(a) the period beginning with the date on which section 61 comes into force and ending with the following 31 March, and

(b) each successive period of twelve months.

(2) In Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 24) (bodies of which all members are disqualified) at the appropriate place insert-

"The Judicial Appointments Commission.".

(3) In Part 6 of Schedule 1 to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (c. 36) (other public bodies and offices which are public authorities) at the appropriate place insert-

"The Judicial Appointments Commission."

Prepared 5 April 2005


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