UK: Companies House - adjudicator's annual report published

The Companies House adjudicator's report for the year ending 31 March 2009 has been published. The adjudicator - Dame Elizabeth Neville - hears appeals against late filing penalties imposed by Companies House and investigates complaints about the way Companies House has dealt with complaints. The report provides an overview of the appeals heard and those (few) that were upheld. It also makes several recommendations including one concerning the development of policies and procedures in respect of the powers that the Registrar will have, from 1 October 2009, to annotate the Register and remove information from it. 

Note: Part 35 of the Companies Act (2006) sets out the framework governing the Registrar and will be supplemented by Regulations. A draft of the Registrar of Companies and Applications for Striking Off Regulations 2009 was published in May: see here (html) and here (pdf).

Update (12 July 2009): The Registrar of Companies and Applications for Striking Off Regulations 2009 were made on 8 July and come into force on 1 October 2009. They have been published on OPSI: see here (html) and here (pdf). An explanatory memorandum is available here.