In the first part of my Website Legal Requirements series, I explain what Company Information you must display on your company website.
Legal Requirements Contents
As from 1st January 2007 the following applies to Business Stationery (which includes Websites):
Whether in hard copy, electronic or any other form:
A company must state its name, in legible lettering, on the following –
- all the company’s business letters, order forms;
- all its notices and other official publications;
- all bills of exchange, promissory notes, endorsements, cheques and orders for money or goods purporting to be signed by, or on behalf of, the company;
- all its bills of parcels, invoices, receipts and letters of credit
- on all its websites
On all of its business letters, order forms or any of the company’s web sites, the company must show in legible lettering –
- its place of registration
- registered number
- its registered office address
- and if it is being wound up, that fact
Whenever an email is used where its paper equivalent would be caught by the stationery requirements then that email is also subject to the requirements. The above also applies to Limited Liability Partnerships.
How Does This Affect My Website?
For a registered business, the website needs to display the business name, place of registration, registered number, its registered office address and if it is being wound up.
Sources & More Info:
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/companies-house