Schedule 3: Amendments of remaining provisions of the Companies Act 1985 relating to offences Part 37: Companies: Supplementary Provisions Section 1139: Service of documents on company
1458.This section replaces section 725 of the 1985 Act. It ensures that there is a place at which a document may be served on companies registered under the Act. It also applies to overseas companies registered in accordance with regulations made under section 1046. Subsection (4) enables court service on a company registered in Scotland or Northern Ireland at the company’s principal place of business in England and Wales. (Since this is a provision about court service, the rules on companies registered in England and Wales carrying on business elsewhere in the UK will be found in the relevant legislation in those parts of the UK.) Subsection (5) makes clear that this section is supplemented by the “company communications provisions” referenced by section 1143.