Understand the identity-verification requirements when a CLG director or person with significant control changes and establish the correct verification route before the relevant Companies House procedure is progressed.

Determine the Appropriate CLG Director or PSC Change Verification Route.

Whether you are appointing, replacing or otherwise changing a CLG director or a PSC, our professional team helps you identify the identity-verification requirement and connect the verification step with the relevant Companies House change.

Identify the relevant CLG director or PSC change and establish which individual and corporate role is affected before progressing the associated Companies House procedure.

Distinguish the relevant corporate change from the separate identity-verification requirement applying to the affected individual.

Confirm whether the affected director or PSC needs to complete identity verification before relying on the resulting verification status for the applicable Companies House procedure.

Prepare the individual's identity information and supporting evidence appropriate to the relevant verification route and circumstances before the change is progressed.

Choose the appropriate identity-verification route through Companies House or an Authorised Corporate Service Provider (ACSP), where the applicable route permits professional support.

Complete the required identity-verification stage and establish the resulting verification position before continuing with the relevant director or PSC change.

Keep the verification record connected to the correct individual and corporate capacity so that the identity information is not confused with the company's separate Companies House record.

Understand that identity verification does not itself appoint a director, change a PSC position or create corporate authority but forms a separate compliance step associated with the applicable Companies House process.

Coordinate the verified identity position with the relevant corporate change while recognising that the Companies House filing or statutory procedure remains a separate stage.

Reduce avoidable administrative errors and back-and-forth by establishing the affected individual, corporate role, verification requirement and applicable Companies House procedure before progressing the change.

Determine Your CLG Director or PSC Change Verification Route

Coddan CPM is a UK-based legal and corporate services firm providing professional support with Companies House identity verification for CLG directors and, where applicable, PSCs affected by a corporate change through its ACSP framework.
Call us on: 033 0808 0089 to discuss the appropriate identity-verification route for your director or PSC change for your circumstances.

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Director and PSC changes

Identity Verification When CLG Directors or PSCs Change

When a director or PSC changes, the identity check is only one part of the work. The real event, its effective date, the authority for it, the Companies House filing and the company’s own records must all be considered separately.

Coddan can identify what changed, who needs to verify, where a Personal Code must be used and what company, filing or corrective work may still be required.

When this service may help

Use this service when a CLG is appointing or losing a director, changing a director’s details, adding or removing an individual PSC, or recording a genuine change in control.

A new person is taking a role

We establish the appointment or control event, verification position, Personal Code requirement and filing route.

A person is leaving or their details changed

We distinguish a genuine cessation or new detail from an earlier filing that was inaccurate.

The records do not agree

We compare the available company evidence with Companies House information and identify whether ordinary change work or a corrective route is needed.

What has changed?

Identify the event before choosing a filing. These situations have different evidence, timing and consequences.

Appointment

A person becomes a director, individual PSC or both from the relevant effective date.

Cessation

A person resigns, is removed, dies or otherwise ceases to hold a role.

Personal-detail change

The person remains in office, but current registrable information has genuinely changed.

Change in control

A person becomes or ceases to be a PSC, or the nature of their control changes.

Correction

Earlier information was inaccurate, omitted, duplicated, unsupported or filed against the wrong person or company.

Correction is not the same as reporting a genuine new change. Coddan first establishes what happened and when.

Appointing a new director

A director appointment requires a real company decision and a properly prepared appointment. Identity verification supports the Companies House process but does not make the appointment.

Company authority

The articles and applicable company decision determine whether and how the person is appointed.

Consent and eligibility

Consent to act, eligibility and any disqualification question remain separate from proving identity.

Verification and code

The proposed director must satisfy the current identity-verification requirement and provide the Personal Code through the applicable appointment process.

Filing and records

Companies House controls filing acceptance. The company must retain the appropriate decision, consent and governance evidence.

Acceptance of a filing does not cure an appointment that was not properly authorised. A charitable-company director may also have a separate charity-trustee capacity.

When a director leaves

Resignation, removal, death, disqualification and cessation under the articles are not interchangeable. The event, effective date and supporting evidence must be established before Companies House is notified.

Evidence of the event

The relevant notice, decision, provision, death evidence or other record depends on how the office ended.

Company and public records

The cessation must be reflected through the appropriate Companies House process and in the company’s relevant governance records.

Verification depends on the circumstances

The position may depend on the cessation date, filing date, current register and any outstanding transition or confirmation-statement requirement. There is no safe blanket rule for every departing director.

Identity verification does not create or prove a cessation. Filing a cessation does not make a defective removal valid, and a former director should not be assumed to retain authority to instruct the company.

Changes to a director’s details

A genuine new change must be distinguished from information that was already wrong when filed.

Current information changed

A new name, service address, residential address, nationality, country of residence or other registrable change must be reported through the process applying to that information.

Earlier information was inaccurate

That is a correction problem. A date of birth does not ordinarily change; an incorrectly registered date may require a specific correction before role connection can succeed.

Identity verification and use of a Personal Code do not update the person’s registered details or replace the required change or correction procedure.

When someone becomes or ceases to be a PSC

PSC status comes from the applicable ownership or control conditions. Identity verification confirms the individual’s identity; it does not decide whether those conditions are met.

A new individual PSC

Establish when the person first met a PSC condition, confirm the required particulars and nature of control, notify Companies House and complete the applicable identity-verification and Personal Code steps.

A PSC ceases

Establish when and why the person stopped meeting every applicable PSC condition. Verification does not cause the cessation.

The control changes

Where the person remains a PSC but their nature or level of control changes, the confirmed new position must be reported accurately.

Current Companies House guidance says PSC information changes must be reported within 14 days after the company confirms the change. A person becoming a PSC after 18 November 2025 may provide their Personal Code when first added or within 14 days after being added. These are related but separate requirements.

If the PSC has died: current Companies House guidance says identity verification is not required for that PSC and that the person should remain on the register until a grant of probate or letters of administration has been received. The wider estate and company position may still require separate work.

If the same person is both director and PSC

A change in one capacity does not automatically change the other.

New director and PSC

Both role processes must be completed. The individual normally uses the same Personal Code separately for each role.

Director ceases but remains PSC

The directorship ends through its proper route. PSC status continues if the person still meets a control condition.

PSC ceases but remains director

The control change does not end the directorship. The director role continues unless it is separately ended.

Both roles change

The events may have different effective dates, evidence, filings and timing. One filing must not be assumed to complete both.

Other capacities do not change automatically

Directorship, PSC status, membership, guarantor status and charity trusteeship must each be considered separately.

Members and guarantors

A person may cease as director but remain a member or guarantor, or cease as a member or guarantor while remaining a director.

Charity trustees

A charitable-company director may also be a charity trustee. The company and charity appointment or cessation requirements remain separate.

A change in an ordinary member, guarantor or trustee capacity does not itself create the director identity-verification requirement. Separate governance, charity or company-secretarial work may be required.

The underlying event must exist

Before a filing is selected, Coddan must establish what actually happened and what evidence supports the effective date.

Possible supporting records

Articles, board or member decisions, consent to act, resignation notice, correspondence, minutes, voting information, control instruments or other contemporaneous records may be relevant.

What Coddan cannot create

We do not invent a missing decision, backdate an appointment or resignation, manufacture consent or reconstruct an event as though an original record had always existed.

When another route is needed

A missing, invalid or disputed event may require a new decision, ratification where legally available, correction, court procedure or professional advice.

Companies House and the company’s records are different

Companies House information

Companies House records information delivered to it. The filing date and the effective date of the underlying event may be different.

Company evidence and records

Minutes, notices, consents, the register of members and other required, historic or voluntarily maintained governance records evidence the company’s own decisions and position.

A Companies House filing does not replace the company’s supporting evidence. Updating internal records does not automatically update Companies House. Both should describe the same real event accurately.

Do not wait for the confirmation statement

The confirmation statement is not a universal substitute for reporting changes when they occur. Director appointments, cessations and detail changes, and PSC changes, may require their own process before the next statement. An existing director’s Personal Code may be provided through the applicable confirmation statement, while an individual PSC’s code requirement remains separate.

Current, transitional and later requirements

Information checked against current Companies House guidance on 19 September 2026. Recheck the official guidance if the event or filing occurs later.

Current requirements

A new director must satisfy the current verification and code requirements. An individual who becomes a PSC must verify and provide the code through the applicable PSC process. Director and PSC changes must also be reported through the processes applying to those events.

Transition and individual dates

Mandatory identity verification began on 18 November 2025. Existing directors and PSCs have role-specific timing. A change during the transition must be assessed by person, capacity, event and date; 18 November 2026 is not one universal deadline.

Later requirements

Later requirements announced for people who file, corporate directors and officers of corporate PSCs must not be treated as operational until brought into force.

Choose how to complete identity verification

Free Companies House route

An eligible individual may use the free official service. Professional ACSP assistance is not compulsory.

Review the free official route

Coddan’s supported ACSP route

Where suitable and agreed, Coddan coordinates supported verification and may connect it with separately authorised appointment, PSC, confirmation-statement or company-secretarial work.

What Coddan can coordinate

Coddan CPM Limited is registered with Companies House as an Authorised Corporate Service Provider, also known as a Companies House authorised agent, and is supervised by HMRC for anti-money-laundering purposes.

1. Identify the eventCoddan establishes the CLG, person, affected role, change and effective date.
2. Check the supporting evidenceWe review available decisions, notices, consents, control information and company records.
3. Coordinate verificationFor a supported case, Coddan creates the individual file. The person receives a secure link, supplies supported identity and address evidence and completes the selfie or liveness step.
4. Review and submitCoddan reviews the result and manually submits the required verification information through its Companies House ACSP account where satisfactory and authorised.
5. Use the Personal CodeCompanies House sends the code to the individual. It is used through the correct director or PSC process where Coddan is authorised and instructed.
6. Complete separate company workThe filing and relevant internal or governance records are completed only within the agreed scope.

Coddan is not Companies House and does not make the company’s decision. Verification does not appoint or remove a director, create or end PSC status, or guarantee filing acceptance.

Coddan’s client onboarding and anti-money-laundering checks remain distinct from Companies House identity verification.

How we identify the correct next step

Identify what changedEstablish the person, role, event and effective date.
Check authority and recordsReview the articles, decision, notice, consent and available company evidence.
Establish who must verifyDetermine the current requirement for each affected director or individual PSC.
Match the code to the roleUse the correct person’s Personal Code through each applicable director or PSC process.
Complete the appropriate filingPrepare or coordinate the current appointment, cessation, personal-detail or PSC process within the agreed scope.
Align records and continueIdentify any internal, confirmation-statement, charity, governance or corrective work still required.

What information should you provide?

Provide what you know. “Not known” is an acceptable answer and helps Coddan identify what still needs to be established.

The CLG and affected person

Registered name, company number, jurisdiction, full name, date of birth and every current or proposed capacity.

The event and date

What is said to have happened, the proposed or actual effective date and whether the matter is an appointment, cessation, current change or correction.

Authority and evidence

Articles, governing document, board or member decisions, consent, resignation notice, death evidence, control information and related correspondence where available.

Company and public records

Current Companies House information, relevant minutes, notices, historic records, member information and any inconsistency already identified.

Verification and timing

How verification was or will be completed, whether the code has been received, relevant confirmation-statement or PSC dates and any notice already received.

Dispute or uncertainty

Any doubt about authority, consent, appointment, resignation, removal, control, disqualification or an earlier filing.

Do not place your Personal Code in a general website enquiry. Use Coddan’s normal contact details when you are ready to explain the change.

When correction or legal advice is required

An ordinary change filing may be unsuitable where the event, authority or registered information is already disputed or inaccurate.

The appointment, resignation or cessation date cannot be established.
Consent, authority or a required company decision is missing or disputed.
A former director remains registered or someone was appointed without their knowledge.
The registered date of birth, personal details or nature of control is inaccurate.
The PSC position, authority or identity is confused, disputed or may have been misused.
The company is dissolved or registrar, court or specialist legal action may be needed.

Identity verification does not repair an inaccurate register. Coddan may identify the apparent problem and appropriate next route without turning this service into an RP01, RP04, rectification, removal, restoration or court guide.

Who is responsible for each stage?

The company

Its authorised decision-makers control valid appointments, removals, governance decisions, company evidence and instructions.

The individual

Provides accurate information, completes verification where required and gives consent or notices through the proper process.

Coddan

Within the agreed scope, we review the event, coordinate supported verification and prepare or coordinate confirmed company work.

Companies House and advisers

Companies House controls its register and filing acceptance. Courts, regulators and relevant professionals control their own decisions and advice.

What affects the work, cost and timing?

Not every company change requires a separate paid identity-verification service. The free official route remains available where suitable, and Personal Code reuse is not automatically a new verification charge.

The event and peopleThe type of change, number of affected people and capacities held by each person.

Evidence and authorityWhether decisions, consent, notices, control evidence and company records are complete.

Verification and filingsWhether verification and the Personal Code are ready, the number of filings and any confirmation-statement work.

Problems and separate workInconsistencies, disputes, historic errors, Coddan’s professional charge and VAT, official charges and separately required governance, legal, charity, correction or restoration work.

Frequently asked questions

Must a new CLG director verify before appointment?

A new director must satisfy the current identity-verification requirement and provide the Personal Code through the applicable appointment process. The company must still make a valid appointment.

Does identity verification appoint the director?

No. The appointment depends on the company’s articles, authority, decision, consent and effective date. Verification confirms identity for the Companies House framework.

Does a resigning director need to verify?

There is no safe universal answer. The position may depend on the effective cessation date, filing date, current register and any outstanding confirmation-statement or transition requirement.

What if a former director is still shown at Companies House?

First establish whether and when the office validly ended. A missing notification may require a cessation filing; an inaccurate, unauthorised or disputed record may require a corrective or legal route.

What if someone was appointed without their knowledge?

Do not treat this as an ordinary resignation. The authority, consent, filing and possible misuse of identity must be examined, and Companies House or legal action may be required.

How do we report a change in a director’s name or address?

Use the current process applying to the changed detail. Verification and Personal Code use do not themselves update the registered information.

What if the registered date of birth is wrong?

That is normally a correction rather than a new personal-detail change. The appropriate Companies House correction process may be required before role connection can succeed.

When must a new individual PSC verify?

A person becoming a PSC after 18 November 2025 may provide the Personal Code when first added to the register or within 14 days after being added. The PSC notification and identity step remain separate.

Does a director’s resignation automatically end PSC status?

No. PSC status continues if the person still satisfies a control condition. The two capacities must be considered separately.

Does ceasing to be a PSC end the directorship?

No. The directorship continues unless it ends through its own valid event and process.

Can we wait until the confirmation statement?

Not where the change requires an earlier separate notification. The confirmation statement confirms information but is not a universal replacement for director or PSC change filings.

Does a Companies House filing update the company’s own records?

No. The company must preserve and update the supporting governance and other records applicable to the event. Internal work does not automatically update Companies House either.

Can Coddan coordinate verification and the related filing?

Where operationally confirmed, properly authorised and included in the agreed scope, Coddan may coordinate supported verification with the appropriate company filing and record work.

What if the appointment, resignation or control position is disputed?

Identity verification cannot decide the dispute. The documents, authority and facts must be reviewed, and Companies House, registrar, court or legal action may be required.

What information should I provide?

Provide the CLG, person, capacities, event, date, decisions, notices, available records, verification position and any dispute or inconsistency. “Not known” is acceptable.

What affects the work, cost and timing?

The type and number of changes, available authority and evidence, verification readiness, filings, record work, inconsistencies and any separately required corrective or legal work all matter.

Establish the event before filing the change

Tell us who changed role, what happened, when it took effect and what records are available. We can identify the verification, filing, company-record and corrective work that may follow.

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Identity Verification When CLG Directors or PSCs Change

When this service may help

A new person is taking a role

A person is leaving or their details changed

The records do not agree

What has changed?

Appointment

Cessation

Personal-detail change

Change in control

Correction

Appointing a new director

Company authority

Consent and eligibility

Verification and code

Filing and records

When a director leaves

Evidence of the event

Company and public records

Verification depends on the circumstances

Changes to a director’s details

Current information changed

Earlier information was inaccurate

When someone becomes or ceases to be a PSC

A new individual PSC

A PSC ceases

The control changes

If the same person is both director and PSC

New director and PSC

Director ceases but remains PSC

PSC ceases but remains director

Both roles change

Other capacities do not change automatically

Members and guarantors

Charity trustees

The underlying event must exist

Possible supporting records

What Coddan cannot create

When another route is needed

Companies House and the company’s records are different

Companies House information

Company evidence and records

Do not wait for the confirmation statement

Current, transitional and later requirements

Current requirements

Transition and individual dates

Later requirements

Choose how to complete identity verification

Free Companies House route

Coddan’s supported ACSP route

What Coddan can coordinate

How we identify the correct next step

What information should you provide?

The CLG and affected person

The event and date

Authority and evidence

Company and public records

Verification and timing

Dispute or uncertainty

When correction or legal advice is required

Who is responsible for each stage?

The company

The individual

Coddan

Companies House and advisers

What affects the work, cost and timing?

Continue with the service that matches the change

Frequently asked questions

Establish the event before filing the change