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).

E-Quick Package

£ 32.00

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.

Legal Requirements to Register an LTD

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Constitutional Reform Act 2005
2005 Chapter 4 - continued

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	PART 7
	GENERAL
139	Confidentiality
	(1) A person who obtains confidential information, or to whom confidential information is provided, under or for the purposes of a relevant provision must not disclose it except with lawful authority.
	(2) These are the relevant provisions-
	(a) sections 26 to 31;
	(b) Part 4;
	(c) regulations and rules under Part 4.
	(3) Information is confidential if it relates to an identified or identifiable individual (a "subject").
	(4) Confidential information is disclosed with lawful authority only if and to the extent that any of the following applies-
	(a) the disclosure is with the consent of each person who is a subject of the information (but this is subject to subsection (5));
	(b) the disclosure is for (and is necessary for) the exercise by any person of functions under a relevant provision;
	(c) the disclosure is for (and is necessary for) the exercise of functions under section 11(3A) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 (c. 54) or a decision whether to exercise them;
	(d) the disclosure is for (and is necessary for) the exercise of powers to which section 108 applies, or a decision whether to exercise them;
	(e) the disclosure is required, under rules of court or a court order, for the purposes of legal proceedings of any description.
	(5) An opinion or other information given by one identified or identifiable individual (A) about another (B)-
	(a) is information that relates to both;
	(b) must not be disclosed to B without A's consent.
	(6) This section does not prevent the disclosure with the agreement of the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Chief Justice of information as to disciplinary action taken in accordance with a relevant provision.
	(7) This section does not prevent the disclosure of information which is already, or has previously been, available to the public from other sources.
	(8) A contravention of this section in respect of any information is actionable, subject to the defences and other incidents applying to actions for breach of statutory duty.
	(9) But it is actionable only at the suit of a person who is a subject of the information.
140	"Enactment"
	(1) In this Act "enactment" includes-
	(a) an enactment contained in this Act;
	(b) an enactment contained in a local, personal or private Act;
	(c) except in sections 19 and 143, an enactment contained in subordinate legislation;
	and any reference to an enactment includes a reference to an enactment whenever passed or made.
	(2) In section 22 "enactment" also includes an enactment contained in, or in an instrument made under, Northern Ireland legislation.
	(3) In Part 3 "enactment" also includes-
	(a) an enactment comprised in, or in an instrument made under, an Act of the Scottish Parliament;
	(b) an enactment contained in, or in an instrument made under, Northern Ireland legislation.
	(4) In sections 19, 21 and 143 and in paragraph 3 of Schedule 7 "enactment" also includes-
	(a) an enactment contained in Northern Ireland legislation;
	(b) an enactment contained in a Measure of the Church Assembly or of the General Synod of the Church of England.
141	"Subordinate legislation"
	(1) In this Act "subordinate legislation" has the same meaning as in the Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30).
	(2) In sections 19 and 143 "subordinate legislation" also includes an enactment contained in an instrument made under Northern Ireland legislation.
142	General interpretation
	In this Act-
	"functions" includes powers and duties;
	"Minister of the Crown" has the same meaning as in the Ministers of the Crown Act 1975 (c. 26).
143	Supplementary provision etc
	(1) The Lord Chancellor may by order make-
	(a) any supplementary, incidental or consequential provision, and
	(b) any transitory, transitional or saving provision,
	which he considers necessary or expedient for the purposes of, in consequence of, or for giving full effect to, any provision of this Act.
	(2) An order under this section may in particular-
	(a) provide for any provision of this Act which comes into force before another such provision has come into force to have effect, until that other provision has come into force, with such modifications as are specified in the order;
	(b) amend or repeal any of the following-
	(i) an enactment other than one contained in an Act passed, or Northern Ireland legislation passed or made, after the Session in which this Act is passed;
	(ii) subordinate legislation other than subordinate legislation made under an Act passed, or Northern Ireland legislation passed or made, after the Session in which this Act is passed;
	(iii) any other instrument or document, including a prerogative instrument;
	(c) amend or repeal an enactment or subordinate legislation, whenever passed or made, in consequence of section 59.
	(3) The amendments that may be made by virtue of subsection (2)(b) are in addition to those made by or under any other provision of this Act.
	(4) In this section "prerogative instrument" means an Order in Council, warrant, charter or other instrument made under the prerogative.
144	Orders and regulations
	(1) Any power of a Minister of the Crown to make an order or regulations under this Act is exercisable by statutory instrument, except where subsection (2) applies.
	(2) Any power of the Lord Chancellor to make an order under section 19(1) or 143 amending an enactment contained in, or in an instrument made under, Northern Ireland legislation is exercisable by statutory rule for the purposes of the Statutory Rules (Northern Ireland) Order 1979 (S.I. 1979/1573 (N.I. 12)).
	(3) Regulations under section 115, 120(5) or 121(5) are to be made in the form of a statutory instrument to which the Statutory Instruments Act 1946 (c. 36) applies as if the regulations were made by a Minister of the Crown.
	(4) A statutory instrument to which this subsection applies may not be made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.
	(5) Subsection (4) applies to a statutory instrument which contains any of the following-
	(a) an order under section 85(3)(a) or (b) which amends Part 1 of Schedule 14;
	(b) an order under section 19(1) which amends a public general Act, except where the only such amendment is the inclusion in Schedule 7 of a function of the Lord Chancellor;
	(c) an order under section 19(1) which amends subordinate legislation of which a draft was required to be laid before and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament, except where the only such amendment consists of provision that falls within subsection (2)(b) of section 19;
	(d) an order under section 143 which amends a public general Act;
	(e) an order under paragraph 5 of Schedule 12.
	(6) In any other case a statutory instrument containing an order or regulations under this Act, unless it contains only an order under section 66(5) or 148, is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
	(7) A statutory rule made under a power to which subsection (2) applies is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
145	Minor and consequential amendments
	Schedule 17 (minor and consequential amendments) has effect.
146	Repeals and revocations
	The provisions listed in Schedule 18 are repealed or revoked to the extent specified.
147	Extent
	(1) Sections 7, 8 and 9 extend to England and Wales only.
	(2) Section 6 and Part 5 extend to Northern Ireland only.
	(3) Any amendment, repeal or revocation made by this Act has the same extent as the provision to which it relates.
	(4) Subject to subsections (1) to (3), this Act extends to Northern Ireland.
148	Commencement
	(1) This Act, except the following provisions, comes into force in accordance with provision to be made by the Lord Chancellor by order.
	(2) The provisions excepted from subsection (1) are-
	(a) section 4;
	(b) sections 18 to 22;
	(c) sections 140 to 144;
	(d) section 147;
	(e) this section;
	(f) section 149;
	(g) Schedules 6 and 7.
	(3) Section 4 comes into force in accordance with provision to be made by the Secretary of State by order.
	(4) An order by which section 23(1) comes into force at any time may not be made unless the Lord Chancellor is satisfied that the Supreme Court will at that time be provided with accommodation in accordance with written plans that he has approved.
	(5) The Lord Chancellor may approve plans only if, having consulted the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary holding office at the time of the approval, he is satisfied that accommodation in accordance with the plans will be appropriate for the purposes of the Court.
	(6) An order under this section may make different provision for different purposes.
149	Short title
	This Act may be cited as the Constitutional Reform Act 2005.



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