Registered Office

The registered office of a company is that to which CRO correspondence and all formal legal notices addressed to the company will be sent. The registered office can be anywhere in the State.

Physical Location
The address must be a physical location, not just a post office box number, because people have the right to visit the company’s registered office to inspect certain registers and documents and to deliver documents by hand. A letter addressed to the company at its registered office address must be capable of being delivered by An Post.

Registered Office Agent (ROA)
It is possible to have the registered office placed in the care of an authorised agent. The authorised agents information must be detailed in a submission of a Form B2, where the address of the office is being changed, as detailed in Section 50 of the Companies Act 2014.

Section 51 of the Companies Act 2014
It should be noted that any document left at or sent by post to the place recorded at the CRO as the situation of the registered office of a company is deemed by law to have been left at or sent by post to the registered office of the company, notwithstanding that the situation of its registered office may have changed.

Updating the Registered Office
It is most important that the company’s registered office is kept up-to-date, so that the company will receive all correspondence.

The original registered office is entered in the Form A1 submitted to incorporate the company. The registered office can be changed on CORE, free of charge.