Part 1: Companies House Reform Overseas companies Section 100: Registered addresses of an overseas company
This section inserts new section 1048A to the Companies Act 2006 and amends subsections (2) and (3) in section 1139.
	Section 1048A will provide the ability to make regulations which can require an overseas company to provide and maintain an appropriate address and appropriate email address. Appropriate address is defined in section 86(2) of Companies Act - broadly speaking, an address is appropriate if documents sent there will reach the company. Under subsection 1048A(3) Regulations made under section 1048A may include provisions allowing for withholding of certain information from public inspection as well as corresponding or similar to section 1097A. Regulations under section 1048A are subject to negative procedure.
	As a result of the amendments to subsections (2) and (3) of section 1139 the service of documents to an overseas company, whose particulars are registered under section 1046, will be effective at the company’s registered address (section 1048A(1)(a)) or registered address of any person residing in UK authorised to accept service on the company’s behalf.