View Live at 1-2pm on Wednesday 28th October 2026
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£65 + VAT (member) / £130 + VAT (non-member)
The abolition of internal statutory registers under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA) represents the most significant change to the mechanics of UK company law since the 2006 consolidation. From 18 November 2025, companies are no longer required to maintain their own local registers of directors, directors’ residential addresses, secretaries or persons with significant control (PSCs) – with Companies House becoming the sole authoritative source of that data. Just over two months later, on 26 January 2026, a further and easily confused change removed the option for companies to hold their register of members centrally at Companies House, reversing the direction of travel for shareholder data and requiring active repatriation exercises for companies that had previously elected centrally.
This one-hour webinar provides corporate solicitors and governance professionals with a rigorous, practice-ready update on both reforms, the identity verification regime that underpins them, and the Registrar’s newly expanded powers to query, reject and remove information from the register. The session assumes a working knowledge of company law fundamentals and focuses on the technical detail, statutory cross-referencing and transactional consequences that City practice demands – including the practical compliance steps firms need to be taking now, and the further changes still moving through implementation into 2027.
This webinar will cover:
- The pre-ECCTA registers regime under the Companies Act 2006 – sections 113–128, 162–166, 275 and Schedule 1A – and why the 2016 central-election option failed to achieve meaningful take-up
- ECCTA 2023’s commencement architecture – tracking Commencement Nos. 2, 6 and 7, and why “the Act” alone never tells you what is actually in force
- The 18 November 2025 abolition of local registers of directors, directors’ residential addresses, secretaries and PSCs, and the consequential changes to disqualification, filing offences and incorporation attestations
