UK Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency (ECCTA) changes and delivery in Entities

Entities includes a set of wizards and functionalities that support companies in staying compliant with the UK Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act (ECCTA).

Changes being introduced in 2025 onwards

Following the Companies House announcement of a new set of changes to the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act (ECCTA), Entities is releasing a set of upgrades to accommodate the new legislation.

We are introducing updates to Entities in phases, following the Companies House announced schedule.

Update phases and scope

The schedule below is an approximation based on the timeline information released by Companies House at the date of publishing this article. Dates and scope are subject to change.

• May 2025 – Storing Individuals Identity Verification (IDV) codes
• June 2025 – Storing Authorised Corporate Service Providers (ACSP) codes
• Autumn/Winter 2025 – Submitting IDV information for new events, such as incorporations, news appointments, or confirmation statements
• Spring/Summer 2026 – Submitting type of filer and statement of capacity when delivering documents to Companies House

Changes in Entities will include:

• Storage of the relevant codes
• Recording capacity and IDV status of filer
• Updates to e-filing
• Changes in forms

Storing Authorised Corporate Service Providers (ACSP) codes

The new UK Delivery tab in My Preferences allows you to record the necessary information to submit document filer details for individuals delivering documents to UK Companies House. In this tab, you can record the Identity Verification code or the Authorised Corporate Service Provider (ACSP) code and specify the capacity in which you are delivering documents, which will be required by UK Companies House.

Administrator settings for controlling user access

After the upgrade, by default, users don’t have access to the new UK Delivery tab in My Preferences. Administrators can selectively configure user access to related features with user role rights. 

The following role right specifies whether the selected user has the access permissions to:

• Change UK Document Delivery (IDV/ACSP) (Read only) – Access the UK Delivery tab in My Preferences. Users with this access permission can edit their own information available in the tab. This user role right is available in the User Security section.

  Note

  This user role right is introduced in preparation for upcoming releases. For details of the expected delivery timeline, see the Update phases and scope section.

For more information on controlling user access with user role rights, refer to User Role Rights.

Storing Relevant Officer (RO) details for a Registered Legal Entity

You can record Relevant Officer (RO) information for a Registered Legal Entity in the new UK Relevant Officer of a Registered Legal Entity (RLE) data library.

Each Relevant Officer data library record must apply to an RLE record:

• A company for which the Relevant Officer is a Person of Significant Control (PSC)

• An individual selected as the Relevant Officer or Registered Legal Entity

For more information on storing data in data libraries, see Data Library.

Storing Individuals Identity Verification codes

Entities includes the capability to record and store Individuals Identity Verification (IDV) codes. In addition, Administrators can run reports to identify individuals missing the required codes.

Administrator settings for controlling user access

After the upgrade, by default, users don’t have access to the new UK Identity Verification field on the Individuals page.

Administrators can selectively configure user access to related features with user role rights. The following roles specify whether the selected user has the access permissions to:

• View UK Identity Verification (IDV) code (Read only) - View the code in an obfuscated format. Users with this access permission are only able to verify if a code is recorded for an individual, or if there is no code recorded.

• Add/Edit UK Identity Verification (IDV) code (Standard) - View, add, and update full IDV codes for individuals. Users with this access permission can view the IDV code, access the Change Identity Verification wizard, and edit the Identity Verification (UK) field.

These user role rights are available in the Individual/Other Entity Security section.

For more information on controlling user access with user role rights, refer to User Role Rights.

Reports identifying individuals without IDV codes

Administrators with access to System Reports can run a report to check if all individuals are assigned IDV codes.

The report lists individuals with one of the following roles in UK entities:

• Current director or equivalent, for example a member or a designated member, and other appointment types defined as directors.
• Current Person of Significant Control (PSC)
• PSC for Relevant Legal Entities without a Relevant Officer
• PSC for Relevant Legal Entities with a Relevant Officer who does not have an IDV code

The following roles are excluded from the report:

• Individuals in historical UK entities and incorporations
• Directors with appointment status changes. The report highlights appointment events and omits status changes.

You can generate the following versions of this report:

• UK entities – next Confirmation Statements where IDV code(s) not recorded – This report type lists entities in an ascending order based on due dates of the next Confirmation Statement. For each relevant entity, it lists individuals with no IDV code recorded. By default, this report type is set to only list each individual once, even if they are linked to multiple entities.
• Individuals of UK entities – Individuals with no IDV record – This report type provides an alphabetical list of individuals. By default, this report type is set to only show individuals with no IDV codes. You can also create a report of all relevant individuals, with and without IDV codes.

Accessing the report

1. Go to System Tools > System Reports.
2. Select the Individuals with missing UK Identity Verification (IDV) codes (HTML) option.

Changes introduced in 2024

On Monday, March 4, 2024, Companies House has released the first set of changes related to the UK Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency (ECCTA) Act.

These changes impact several forms available for e-filing and paper format within Entities.

The changes were released to Entities on March 2, 2024.

ECCTA changes: scope and impact on UK companies

The changes introduced as part of ECCTA apply to new forms generated in Entities with Made Up Date (MUD) starting on the Companies House implementation date – March 4, 2024.

The changes apply also to Confirmation Statements with the Made Up Date starting from March 5, 2024.

Change summary

Form	Description	Changes
CS01	Confirmation Statement	Registered email address Lawful purpose statement Authenticating on behalf of company
IN01	Application to Register a Company (SBEE Act 2015)	Registered email address Lawful purpose statement Authenticating on behalf of company
AD01	Change of Registered Office Address	Authenticating on behalf of company Appropriate registered office address
LLCS01	Confirmation Statement	Registered email address Lawful purpose statement Authenticating on behalf of LLP
LLIN01	Application for Incorporation of a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) (SBEE Act 2015)	Registered email address Authenticating on behalf of LLP
LLAD01	Change of Registered Office of a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP)	Authenticating on behalf of LLP Appropriate registered office address

Legislative reference correction

We have been notified by Companies House that the new ECCTA forms LLAD01 and LLCS01 provided by them and subsequently released to Entities on March 4, 2024, contain incorrect legislative references. Companies House have confirmed that they will accept the existing forms from Entities until they are replaced.

On April 8, 2024, the forms LLAD01 and LLCS01 have been replaced in Entities.

The following form corrections have been released:

Form	Incorrect reference	Correct reference released
LLAD01, page 3	In accordance with Section 87 of the Companies Act 2006 as applied by the Limited Liability Partnerships (Application of Companies Law) Regulations 2024.	In accordance with Section 87 of the Companies Act 2006 as applied by the Limited Liability Partnerships (Application of Companies Act 2006) Regulations 2009.
LLAD01, section 3	I confirm that the new registered office address is an appropriate address as outlined in section 2(5) of the Limited Partnerships Act 2000.	I confirm that the new registered office address is an appropriate address as outlined in section 2(5) of the Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2000.
LLCS01, page 3	In accordance with Section 853A of the Companies Act 2006. As applied to LLPs by The Limited Liability Partnerships (Application of Company Law) Regulations 2024.	In accordance with Section 853A of the Companies Act 2006. As applied to LLPs by The Limited Liability Partnerships (Application of Companies Act 2006) Regulations 2009.
LLCS01, page 6	In accordance with regulation 17ZB of The Limited Liability Partnerships (Application of Company Law) Regulations 2024.	In accordance with regulation 17ZB of The Limited Liability Partnerships (Application of Companies Act 2006) Regulations 2009.

Registered email address (REA)

This change affects forms:

• CS01

• LLCS01

• IN01

• LLIN01

As part of ECCTA, companies are required to maintain an appropriate email address. An appropriate email address is one at which, in the ordinary course of events, emails sent to it by the registrar would be expected to come to the attention of a person acting on behalf of the company.

Providing the Registered Email Address for all UK companies and LLPs is mandatory under ECCTA.

The Registered Email Address must be supplied on the first Confirmation Statement issued after the ECCTA implementation. The Made Up Date for the statement must be a date after March 4, 2024.

You can register the same email address for more than one company.

Changes in Entities

You can record the Registered Email Address for UK companies and LLPs in Entities.

You can record REA in the following ways:

• For one company at a time, by editing Company Details

• For multiple UK entities, by using Batch Change Registered Email Address Wizard

To learn how to set the Registered Email Address for UK companies, refer to Set Registered Email Address for UK Companies.

When you add a Registered Email Address in Entities, the first Confirmation Statement you generate after the ECCTA implementation date will include the REA. Incorporations will also include the REA entered.

Currently, to change the Registered Email Address after it has been submitted to Companies House, you will need to use the Companies House new online process for the EM01 form and then update the REA in Entities manually. The e-filing EM01 form will be added to Entities in a future release.

Lawful purpose statement

This change affects forms:

• CS01

• LLCS01

• IN01

Under ECCTA, there is a new mandatory requirement, to confirm that the intended future activities of the company/LLP are lawful, for the following:

• Incorporating a new UK company

• Submitting Confirmation Statements for a company

• Submitting Confirmation Statements for an LLP

Changes in Entities

With the rollout of the changes to Entities, the lawful purpose statement will be a mandatory prompt in the Wizard process for the following actions:

• Generating a Confirmation Statement for a company or an LLP

• Incorporating a new UK company

Authenticating on behalf of company or LLP

This change affects forms:

• CS01

• LLCS01

• IN1

• LIN01

• AD01

• LLAD01

For selected forms, signatures are being replaced by authentication on behalf of the company.

Changes in Entities

When confirming selected events, the existing wizard for signing forms will now indicate who is authenticating the event on behalf of the company. The wizard will update the relevant new forms and e-filing submissions with the person's name. For other events, the field will still be used to indicate a signatory.

Appropriate registered office address

This change affects forms:

• AD01

• LLAD01

This change affects the following UK entities:

• Companies – outlined in section 86(2) of the Companies Act 2006

• LLPs – outlined in section 2(5) of the Limited Partnerships Act 2000

As part of ECCTA, companies and LLPs are required to maintain an appropriate registered office address. An appropriate registered office address is an address where, in the ordinary course of events, a document addressed to the company, and delivered there by hand or by post, would be expected to come to the attention of a person acting on behalf of the company, and the delivery of documents is capable of being recorded by the obtaining of an acknowledgement of delivery.

Changes in Entities

Entities will not accept a PO box as Registered Office Address.

Entities will now prompt to confirm that the Registered Office Address meets the following criteria:

• A document addressed to the company or LLP, and delivered there by hand or by post, would be expected to come to the attention of a person acting on behalf of the company or LLP, and

• A person can get an acknowledgement of delivery to record the delivery of documents to the new registered office address.