Part 1: Companies House Reform Directors Section 45: Registrar’s power to change a director’s service address
Existing section 246 of the Companies Act 2006 sets out the steps that both the Registrar and a relevant company must take when a director’s residential address has been entered on the public record in substitution for an ineffective service address pursuant to a decision of the Registrar under section 245 of the Act.
	Section 45 replaces section 246 to reflect the new circumstances that arise upon the Act’s abolition of local registers of directors. It effectively preserves the existing Registrar obligations in respect of giving appropriate notice of the action that has been taken, while omitting existing obligations upon the company to reflect the change of service address in its local register. It also provides that an address other than a director’s residential address may be entered onto the public register if so determined pursuant to regulations made under section 1097B of the Companies Act as introduced by section 106 of this Act.