Business Stationery and the Law

As of 1st January 2007 all business stationery MUST feature its name legibly on the following:

• all the company's business letters, order forms
• all its notices and other official publications
• all bills of exchange, promissory notes, endorsements, cheques and orders for money or goods purporting to be signed by, or on behalf of, the company
• all its bills of parcels, invoices, receipts and letters of credit
• on all its websites

On all of its business letters, order forms or any of the company’s web sites, the company must show in legible lettering:

• its place of registration
• registered number
• its registered office address
• and if it is being wound up, that fact,

Whenever an email is used where its paper equivalent would be caught by the stationery requirements then that email is also subject to the requirements. The above also applies to Limited Liability Partnerships.

For more information visit Companies House.