# Email and website company information requirements change on 1 January

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/12/21/email-and-website-company-information-requirements-change-1-january/
- Published: 2006-12-21T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

From 1 January 2007 UK companies will be required to include certain regulatory 
information on their websites and email footers to adhere to the Companies Act and
avoid having to pay a fine.
The current duty with regard to required information
on business letters is being extended to include websites, emails and order forms.
From 1 January 2007 companies must list their company registration number, place
of registration, and registered office address on their website as well as in emails
and on order forms.

The information must be in legible characters, so can not be hidden in tiny or coloured
text.

Fortunately, the information does not have to appear on every page on a website,
although some organisation might choose to do this.

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Some charities’ limited companies will no doubt already be following this approach
as many have assumed that ‘business letters’ applied to emails. But from 1 January,
following an update to the Companies Act 1985, the requirement will be explicit.

The Register has published some practical advice on what to do to comply with the
new requirement.

The new law doesn’t address charities, but while checking that an organisation’s
website and email address meet these new requirements, it makes sense to ensure 
that the charity’s registered number appears on all emails and on any page that 
includes any fundraising message. In practice it makes sense to declare the registered
charity number on every page on a charity’s website.

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