Companies House has developed and launched a new temporary online service to upload and send completed forms during the coronavirus outbreak. The online service was first launched at the beginning of June. The latest release of the – upload a document service – went live on 23 July and now allows users to upload more form types relating to Insolvency (phase 1). This temporary service is designed for paper forms that could previously only be sent by post or delivered in person to Companies House.
The main categories of forms that the temporary online service can be used for includes:
- Scottish limited partnership forms
- Scottish qualifying partnership forms
- Registrar’s powers
- RP forms
- Change of constitution
- Resolutions in relation to change of constitution (CC) forms
- Articles in relation to change of constitution (CC) forms
- Insolvency (phase 1)
Companies House is working on a further release to allow the following forms to be submitted:
- Insolvency forms (phase 2)
- GOV.UK Pay links – payment for forms with a fee
- Limited partnerships and Scottish partnerships (with a fee)
- Charges (mortgage)
- Change of name
- Share capital
- Overseas companies
The service is not available nor intended for the large number of Companies House documents that were already accepted online before the pandemic began. This includes documents relating to filing accounts, filing a confirmation statement, making changes to a company and closing a company.
Source: Informanagement