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Company Restoration

If your company has been struck off or dissolved you can have it restored to the register at Companies House.

Our experienced company secretarial team will work to restore your struck off company quickly and sympathetically with minimum hassle, ever mindful of the urgency and distress that is often involved because the assets of struck off and dissolved companies pass bona vacantia to the Crown.


Whether you are one of our professional clients such as an accountant, solicitor or company secretary or a business owner in your own right, we will take a professional approach with personal attention to support your struck off company restoration.

Restoring a company to the register

To restore a struck off or dissolved company to the register at Companies House and continue trading you need to bring all of the struck off or dissolved company's affairs up to date. If a company was trading at the time of strike off it may be eligible for an administrative restoration under sections 1024 – 1049 of the Companies Act 2006.

Company restoration is normally subject to a time limit of 6 years (except for example where a personal injury claim is being brought) from when the company was struck off. Please be advised that until a court order has been obtained, the company will not be restored unless it is an administrative restoration by the Registrar of Companies. This is not guaranteed nor automatic and until such times as the struck off or dissolved company is restored to the register at Companies House the assets remain bona vacantia.

Who can apply for a restoration of a company?

Only a former director or former member of the company, who was a director or member at the time the company was dissolved can apply.To be eligible for administrative restoration, the company must have been:

  • Struck off the register under sections 1000 to 1002 of the Companies Act 2006, that is by the Registrar when fulfilling the criteria set out previously;
  • Dissolved for no more than six years at the date the registrar receives your application for restoration.
  • If a company meets the above criteria, an application for restoration may be made if it meets the following conditions:
  • It must have been carrying on business or in operation at the time it was struck off.
  • If any property or rights belonging to the company became bona vacantia, the applicant must provide the registrar with a statement in writing from the relevant Crown Representative giving consent to the company’s restoration.
  • It has delivered all documents necessary to bring the company up to date and paid any outstanding late filing penalties.

The company is not liable for late filing penalties for accounts received on restoration but which became due while the company was dissolved.

The vast majority of company restoration cases are straightforward. In the unlikely event that the company restoration encounters difficulties (if say a 3rd party were to oppose it) it is not possible to predict the delay but you will be informed of any adverse developments.

 
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