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The official address every company must have: where it can be, whose permission it needs, and where it must be shown.
A Jersey company must always have a registered office in Jersey — and the occupier of those premises must authorise it.
The step that sends applications back: if the premises are not occupied by you, the Registry needs the occupier’s authority before it incorporates.
- 2 Before you apply · 50%
- 1 Straight after · 25%
- 1 Every year, and every change · 25%
- 2 You · 50%
- 2 You, with someone · 50%
Settle the registered officeYou, with someonewhoever occupies the premises
A Jersey company must always have a registered office in Jersey, where letters and notices can reach it — and the occupier of the premises must authorise their use for that. If the premises are not occupied by you (a rented flat, a family home), the occupier signs the Registry’s form C14b. The Registrar can refuse to incorporate a company until satisfied the occupier has agreed.
Why now: The Registry checks it before it will incorporate, so settle it before you apply.
- The occupier’s authority on form C14b, if the premises are not occupied by you
C14b · Occupier authorises premises as the registered office
Whose permission it needsYou, with someonewhoever occupies the premises
What the law asks is premises in Jersey and their occupier’s authority — not a commercial office. Where somebody other than you occupies them, a landlord or family, they authorise it on the Registry’s form C14b; an occupier who no longer agrees notifies the Registry on form C14a, and the company must then move its office.
C14b · Occupier authorises premises as the registered officeC14a · Occupier does not authorise premises as the registered office
Put its name and office on your paperworkYou
The company’s name must appear, legibly, on its business letters, statements of account, invoices, order forms and notices — and the address of its registered office on its business letters and order forms.
If it movesYouthe Jersey Registry (JFSC)Within 21 days of a change of owners or controllers
A notice of change of registered office is free, filed on myRegistry by the nominated person — with the new occupier’s authority.
Notice of change of registered officeC14b · Occupier authorises premises as the registered office
What you do not need
- A commercial office: the law asks for premises in Jersey and their occupier’s authority, nothing more.
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