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Company strike off, dissolution and restoration (27 January 2021)
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Company strike off, dissolution and restoration
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- Cymraeg
Information for directors, secretaries or company advisers about how to dissolve a company or restore a company to the register.
Published 31 October 2014
Last updated 27 January 2021 — see all updates
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This guide will be relevant to you if you’re a company officer or company adviser and you want to dissolve or restore a company. It includes information on:
- why a company may apply to be struck off
- when a company cannot apply to be struck off
- how to apply and who to tell
- how strike off and restoration notices are published in the Gazette
- withdrawing a strike off application
- objecting to a company’s dissolution
- offences and penalties
- what happens to companies no longer in operation
- how to restore a company to the register by a court order or administrative restoration
Before applying to strike off your company
You have certain responsibilities to close down your business properly.
The company’s bank account will be frozen from the date of dissolution. Any credit balance in the account and other assets will pass to the Crown - you’ll have to restore the company to get anything back.
Coronavirus (COVID-19)
We’re closely following government guidance for working safely during coronavirus.
It’s taking much longer than usual to process paper documents sent to us by post - including applications to restore a company.
Use our online service to Close a company to help us process your application as quickly as possible.
Published 31 October 2014
Last updated 27 January 2021 + show all updates