Serious Organised Crime and Police 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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£ 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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Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005
2005 Chapter 15 - continued
PART 2, INVESTIGATIONS, PROSECUTIONS, PROCEEDINGS AND PROCEEDS OF CRIME - continued

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	CHAPTER 2
	OFFENDERS ASSISTING INVESTIGATIONS AND PROSECUTIONS
71	Assistance by offender: immunity from prosecution
	(1) If a specified prosecutor thinks that for the purposes of the investigation or prosecution of any offence it is appropriate to offer any person immunity from prosecution he may give the person a written notice under this subsection (an "immunity notice").
	(2) If a person is given an immunity notice, no proceedings for an offence of a description specified in the notice may be brought against that person in England and Wales or Northern Ireland except in circumstances specified in the notice.
	(3) An immunity notice ceases to have effect in relation to the person to whom it is given if the person fails to comply with any conditions specified in the notice.
	(4) Each of the following is a specified prosecutor-
	(a) the Director of Public Prosecutions;
	(b) the Director of Revenue and Customs Prosecutions;
	(c) the Director of the Serious Fraud Office;
	(d) the Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland;
	(e) a prosecutor designated for the purposes of this section by a prosecutor mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (d).
	(5) The Director of Public Prosecutions or a person designated by him under subsection (4)(e) may not give an immunity notice in relation to proceedings in Northern Ireland.
	(6) The Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland or a person designated by him under subsection (4)(e) may not give an immunity notice in relation to proceedings in England and Wales.
	(7) An immunity notice must not be given in relation to an offence under section 188 of the Enterprise Act 2002 (c. 40) (cartel offences).
72	Assistance by offender: undertakings as to use of evidence
	(1) If a specified prosecutor thinks that for the purposes of the investigation or prosecution of any offence it is appropriate to offer any person an undertaking that information of any description will not be used against the person in any proceedings to which this section applies he may give the person a written notice under this subsection (a "restricted use undertaking").
	(2) This section applies to-
	(a) criminal proceedings;
	(b) proceedings under Part 5 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (c. 29).
	(3) If a person is given a restricted use undertaking the information described in the undertaking must not be used against that person in any proceedings to which this section applies brought in England and Wales or Northern Ireland except in the circumstances specified in the undertaking.
	(4) A restricted use undertaking ceases to have effect in relation to the person to whom it is given if the person fails to comply with any conditions specified in the undertaking.
	(5) The Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland or a person designated by him under section 71(4)(e) may not give a restricted use undertaking in relation to proceedings in England and Wales.
	(6) The Director of Public Prosecutions or a person designated by him under section 71(4)(e) may not give a restricted use undertaking in relation to proceedings in Northern Ireland.
	(7) Specified prosecutor must be construed in accordance with section 71(4).
73	Assistance by defendant: reduction in sentence
	(1) This section applies if a defendant-
	(a) following a plea of guilty is either convicted of an offence in proceedings in the Crown Court or is committed to the Crown Court for sentence, and
	(b) has, pursuant to a written agreement made with a specified prosecutor, assisted or offered to assist the investigator or prosecutor in relation to that or any other offence.
	(2) In determining what sentence to pass on the defendant the court may take into account the extent and nature of the assistance given or offered.
	(3) If the court passes a sentence which is less than it would have passed but for the assistance given or offered, it must state in open court-
	(a) that it has passed a lesser sentence than it would otherwise have passed, and
	(b) what the greater sentence would have been.
	(4) Subsection (3) does not apply if the court thinks that it would not be in the public interest to disclose that the sentence has been discounted; but in such a case the court must give written notice of the matters specified in paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (3) to both the prosecutor and the defendant.
	(5) Nothing in any enactment which-
	(a) requires that a minimum sentence is passed in respect of any offence or an offence of any description or by reference to the circumstances of any offender (whether or not the enactment also permits the court to pass a lesser sentence in particular circumstances), or
	(b) in the case of a sentence which is fixed by law, requires the court to take into account certain matters for the purposes of making an order which determines or has the effect of determining the minimum period of imprisonment which the offender must serve (whether or not the enactment also permits the court to fix a lesser period in particular circumstances),
	affects the power of a court to act under subsection (2).
	(6) If, in determining what sentence to pass on the defendant, the court takes into account the extent and nature of the assistance given or offered as mentioned in subsection (2), that does not prevent the court from also taking account of any other matter which it is entitled by virtue of any other enactment to take account of for the purposes of determining-
	(a) the sentence, or
	(b) in the case of a sentence which is fixed by law, any minimum period of imprisonment which an offender must serve.
	(7) If subsection (3) above does not apply by virtue of subsection (4) above, sections 174(1)(a) and 270 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44) (requirement to explain reasons for sentence or other order) do not apply to the extent that the explanation will disclose that a sentence has been discounted in pursuance of this section.
	(8) In this section-
	(a) a reference to a sentence includes, in the case of a sentence which is fixed by law, a reference to the minimum period an offender is required to serve, and a reference to a lesser sentence must be construed accordingly;
	(b) a reference to imprisonment includes a reference to any other custodial sentence within the meaning of section 76 of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 (c. 6) or Article 2 of the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/ 3160).
	(9) An agreement with a specified prosecutor may provide for assistance to be given to that prosecutor or to any other prosecutor.
	(10) References to a specified prosecutor must be construed in accordance with section 71.
74	Assistance by defendant: review of sentence
	(1) This section applies if-
	(a) the Crown Court has passed a sentence on a person in respect of an offence, and
	(b) the person falls within subsection (2).
	(2) A person falls within this subsection if-
	(a) he receives a discounted sentence in consequence of his having offered in pursuance of a written agreement to give assistance to the prosecutor or investigator of an offence but he knowingly fails to any extent to give assistance in accordance with the agreement;
	(b) he receives a discounted sentence in consequence of his having offered in pursuance of a written agreement to give assistance to the prosecutor or investigator of an offence and, having given the assistance in accordance with the agreement, in pursuance of another written agreement gives or offers to give further assistance;
	(c) he receives a sentence which is not discounted but in pursuance of a written agreement he subsequently gives or offers to give assistance to the prosecutor or investigator of an offence.
	(3) A specified prosecutor may at any time refer the case back to the court by which the sentence was passed if-
	(a) the person is still serving his sentence, and
	(b) the specified prosecutor thinks it is in the interests of justice to do so.
	(4) A case so referred must, if possible, be heard by the judge who passed the sentence to which the referral relates.
	(5) If the court is satisfied that a person who falls within subsection (2)(a) knowingly failed to give the assistance it may substitute for the sentence to which the referral relates such greater sentence (not exceeding that which it would have passed but for the agreement to give assistance) as it thinks appropriate.
	(6) In a case of a person who falls within subsection (2)(b) or (c) the court may-
	(a) take into account the extent and nature of the assistance given or offered;
	(b) substitute for the sentence to which the referral relates such lesser sentence as it thinks appropriate.
	(7) Any part of the sentence to which the referral relates which the person has already served must be taken into account in determining when a greater or lesser sentence imposed by subsection (5) or (6) has been served.
	(8) A person in respect of whom a reference is made under this section and the specified prosecutor may with the leave of the Court of Appeal appeal to the Court of Appeal against the decision of the Crown Court.
	(9) Section 33(3) of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 (c. 19) (limitation on appeal from the criminal division of the Court of Appeal) does not prevent an appeal to the Supreme Court under this section.
	(10) A discounted sentence is a sentence passed in pursuance of section 73 or subsection (6) above.
	(11) References-
	(a) to a written agreement are to an agreement made in writing with a specified prosecutor;
	(b) to a specified prosecutor must be construed in accordance with section 71.
	(12) In relation to any proceedings under this section, the Secretary of State may make an order containing provision corresponding to any provision in-
	(a) the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 (subject to any specified modifications), or
	(b) the Criminal Appeal (Northern Ireland) Act 1980 (c. 47) (subject to any specified modifications).
	(13) A person does not fall within subsection (2) if-
	(a) he was convicted of an offence for which the sentence is fixed by law, and
	(b) he did not plead guilty to the offence for which he was sentenced.
	(14) Section 174(1)(a) or 270 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44) (as the case may be) applies to a sentence substituted under subsection (5) above unless the court thinks that it is not in the public interest to disclose that the person falls within subsection (2)(a) above.
	(15) Subsections (3) to (9) of section 73 apply for the purposes of this section as they apply for the purposes of that section and any reference in those subsections to subsection (2) of that section must be construed as a reference to subsection (6) of this section.
75	Proceedings under section 74: exclusion of public
	(1) This section applies to-
	(a) any proceedings relating to a reference made under section 74(3), and
	(b) any other proceedings arising in consequence of such proceedings.
	(2) The court in which the proceedings will be or are being heard may make such order as it thinks appropriate-
	(a) to exclude from the proceedings any person who does not fall within subsection (4);
	(b) to give such directions as it thinks appropriate prohibiting the publication of any matter relating to the proceedings (including the fact that the reference has been made).
	(3) An order under subsection (2) may be made only to the extent that the court thinks-
	(a) that it is necessary to do so to protect the safety of any person, and
	(b) that it is in the interests of justice.
	(4) The following persons fall within this subsection-
	(a) a member or officer of the court;
	(b) a party to the proceedings;
	(c) counsel or a solicitor for a party to the proceedings;
	(d) a person otherwise directly concerned with the proceedings.
	(5) This section does not affect any other power which the court has by virtue of any rule of law or other enactment-
	(a) to exclude any person from proceedings, or
	(b) to restrict the publication of any matter relating to proceedings.



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Prepared 12 April 2005


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