Service addresses
Part 37 Companies: supplementary provisions
(1) In the Companies Acts a “service address”, in relation to a person, means an address at which documents may be effectively served on that person.
(2)The Secretary of State may by regulations specify conditions with which a service address must comply.
(3)Regulations under this section are subject to negative resolution procedure.
(1) In this Act “the Companies Acts” means—
(a)the company law provisions of this Act,
(b)Part 2 of the Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Act 2004 (c. 27) (community interest companies), and
(c)the provisions of the Companies Act 1985 (c. 6) and the Companies Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1985 (c. 9) that remain in force.
Defined in s.2(1) · see it in the full ActInterprets service address as an address at which documents may be effectively served, supporting service of proceedings and applications. (see para [117])
Interprets section 1141 as defining a service address and enabling regulations prescribing conditions. It does not itself create a rule permitting service of legal process (see paras [64]-[72]).
Confirms the statutory power to specify conditions for service addresses. The conditions regulate the director’s statutory obligations but do not define the circumstances in which section 1140 service is legally possible (see paras [52]; [72]-[76]).
What each judgment says about section 1141 is in the case-law panel in the full Act.
1460.This section defines “service address” for the purposes of the Companies Acts as an address at which documents may be effectively served and provides a power for regulations to specify conditions with which a service address must comply.