The Lawyer's Personal Brand · glossary

Confirmation statement

The yearly filing that tells Companies House a company’s details are up to date. A director already in post verified their identity with the company’s next confirmation statement. That was the moving part of Tess’s October talk, so she stated it with the hedge inside the sentence. File, “confirmation statement” · Chapter 6 · see Identity verification (Companies House)

Explained in Chapter 6, Teach It to the Cat, of The Lawyer's Personal Brand.

The main page for this term is Confirmation statement, in Corporate Governance.

How it comes up, in Chapter 6
Point 1 says how the rule reaches a director already in post. It arrives with the company's next confirmation statement, the yearly filing that confirms the company's details are up to date. The hedge is a date and the words “check the current position”. Because it sits inside the sentence, whoever repeats the rule repeats the caution too.
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As defined in the training Brand File
the yearly filing by which a company tells Companies House that its register of directors and owners is up to date;
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