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New Legislation

Changes to Business Stationery Rules for all Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships

 

New legislation was brought into force on 1 January 2007 concerning business stationery, websites and e-mails.

 

A company must state its name, in legible lettering, on the following:-

 

  • all the company’s business letters and 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 websites, 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 e-mail is used where its paper equivalent would be caught by the stationery requirements then that e-mail is also subject to the requirements.