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Company registration and filing – guidance
Company strike off, dissolution and restoration
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Information for directors, secretaries or company advisers about how to dissolve a company or restore a company to the register.
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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