February 2007

Changes Required to Websites and Electronic Documents

The government has recently issued new legislation extending the requirements for companies and Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs) to provide certain particulars about themselves on their websites and in electronic versions of all documents.
The new legislation became effective from 1 January 2007 and there are penalties for those who do not comply.

The changes mean that companies and LLPs must disclose their name, place of registration, registered number and the address of their registered office on their websites. This information must already be included on business letters and order forms. The new legislation extends the requirements to include this information to such documents in electronic format. As so many of us now conduct business correspondence by email, this has implications for the amount of information that must be included.

Please do get in touch if you want any more clarification on this.

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