Companies House guidance

Source universe · Acquisition routes

Official interpretation · Official API · Public

Published by Companies House, HM Revenue & Customs. Jurisdiction: UK.

What it covers

• company filings
• identity verification
• deadlines
• company administration

Publication and history

Guidance changes in place as legislation, registrar rules and filing services change.

Current GOV.UK guidance with retained snapshots; operational filing requirements are effective-dated separately.

Review cadence: Weekly. Reliability: Official publisher.

Acquisition and rights

• Acquisition: Official API

• Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0

• Commercial reuse: Permitted with attribution

• Raw storage: Permitted

• Derived assertions: Permitted

• Public use: Attributed derived content

• Visibility: Public

Use GOV.UK Content API; keep registrar practice separate from Companies Act provisions and customer register data.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; credited third-party material remains excluded.

Evidence for this decision

• Companies House guidance — Publisher evidence, reviewed 11 September 2026.
• Reuse GOV.UK content — Licence evidence, reviewed 11 September 2026.

Source registry: sterling-source-registry@2026-09-11.5. Last reviewed 11 September 2026.