Understand how your Companies House Personal Code connects your verified identity with relevant CLG roles and procedures and distinguish the individual Personal Code from the separate company records and corporate responsibilities it supports.

Understand the CLG Personal Code Route.

Whether you are a CLG director, a person with significant control or are preparing for a relevant Companies House procedure, our professional team helps you understand when your Personal Code is relevant and how it should be connected to the appropriate individual and corporate role.

Understand what your Companies House Personal Code represents and why it belongs to the verified individual rather than to a particular CLG.

Identify the relevant CLG role and individual including directors and, where applicable, Persons with Significant Control (PSCs) before determining how the Personal Code is used.

Confirm that the relevant identity-verification requirement has been completed before relying on the resulting Personal Code for an applicable Companies House procedure.

Obtain and retain the correct Companies House Personal Code following successful identity verification and keep it associated with the verified individual rather than the company.

Understand when the Personal Code may be relevant to company formation, director appointments, statutory updates and other applicable Companies House procedures.

Distinguish the Personal Code from the company's separate Companies House identifiers so that individual identity information is not confused with company authentication or registration information.

Match the Personal Code to the correct individual and relevant corporate role when preparing a Companies House procedure that requires verified identity information.

Understand that the Personal Code does not incorporate a company, appoint a director or create corporate authority but supports the connection between the verified individual and applicable Companies House procedures.

Keep the Personal Code secure and use it only for the relevant Companies House purpose while maintaining accurate information for the associated corporate role.

Reduce avoidable administrative errors and incorrect code matching by establishing the individual's verified status, relevant role and applicable Companies House procedure before progressing the filing or corporate event.

Understand Your CLG Personal Code Route

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

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After identity verification

Companies House Personal Codes and Role Connection for CLG Directors and PSCs

Completing identity verification is not always the final step. Your Companies House Personal Code must still be provided through the correct process for each affected company and role.

Coddan can identify where the code must be used, coordinate it with agreed company work and help establish why a verified identity is not connecting with the expected director or PSC record.

Is this the right service for you?

This service may help if you have verified your identity but are unsure how your Personal Code relates to a CLG formation, director appointment, confirmation statement or individual PSC requirement.

You have a code but do not know where to use it

We identify the company, the affected role and the process through which the code must be provided.

You hold more than one role

A person who is both director and PSC normally uses one Personal Code, but must provide it separately for each role.

The code will not connect

We can help identify whether the difficulty concerns the code, date of birth, email address, role process or company record.

What is your Companies House Personal Code?

Companies House gives or makes available an 11-character Personal Code after an individual successfully completes identity verification. The code is personal to the individual—not to the CLG, Coddan or another filing agent.

One code for the individual

The individual normally keeps and reuses the same code when it is required for relevant Companies House roles and companies.

Separate use for each role

The same code may need to be provided more than once because every affected company and director or PSC role is dealt with separately.

Not a company credential

It is not the company authentication code, company number, Unique Taxpayer Reference or a charity-regulator identifier.

Not authority to act

The code confirms that identity verification has been completed. It does not create an appointment, PSC status or authority for a company.

What happens after identity verification?

1. Complete verification

The individual completes the free Companies House route or an appropriate ACSP route.

2. Receive or access the code

Companies House issues or makes the Personal Code available through the process applying to the chosen verification route.

3. Provide it for the role

The code and matching personal details are supplied through the relevant director or PSC process.

4. Complete the company event

The formation, appointment, confirmation statement or PSC matter must still be validly prepared and completed.

What “connection” means here: Companies House uses the code and matching personal information to associate the verified individual with the relevant registered or proposed role. It is not a separate legal office or a universal filing form.

How will you receive or find the code?

After the free official route

Sign in to Companies House using the email address used for verification and check “Manage account”. For verifications completed after 8 July 2026, Companies House also says it sends the code by email. A successful Post Office route also allows the person to view the code through the account.

After verification through an ACSP

Companies House sends the code to the email address supplied by the ACSP. The individual may save it to a Companies House account. The ACSP does not create or issue the code.

If an ACSP supplied an incorrect email address, contact the ACSP. It may need to ask Companies House to correct the verification information. Coddan cannot promise independent retrieval, regeneration or replacement of a Personal Code.

Where must the code be provided?

Proposed director

The code for each proposed director is provided in the new-company registration filing. The application and all other formation requirements remain separate.

New director

The code is provided through the applicable appointment filing. It does not make, authorise or validate the underlying appointment.

Existing director

The code is provided through the company’s applicable confirmation-statement process. Each company must be dealt with separately.

Individual PSC

The code is provided through the current PSC identity-verification service within the period applying to the individual’s circumstances.

A member, guarantor or charity trustee does not use a Personal Code merely because of that capacity. The requirement arises only where that person also holds an affected Companies House role, such as director or individual PSC.

If you are both a director and PSC

You normally use the same Personal Code for both capacities, but you must provide it separately through the process applying to each role.

Director use

Provide the code through the formation, appointment or confirmation-statement process that applies to the directorship.

PSC use

Provide the same code separately through the PSC process within the applicable period. The director step does not automatically complete this step.

The role-specific timing may differ. Supplying the code does not decide whether the person is legally a director or PSC.

Using one code for several companies or roles

Verify the person once

The individual normally completes identity verification once and keeps the same Personal Code.

Provide it more than once

Each company and affected role must be addressed through the process that applies to it.

Match the correct individual

The code and personal information must relate to the person named in that company role.

No general authority

The code is not authority to act for every company and does not complete other appointments automatically.

Current, transitional and later requirements

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

Current requirements

Codes are currently required for proposed directors in new-company registrations, new director appointments, existing directors through the applicable confirmation statement, and individual PSCs through the relevant PSC process.

Individual timing

Mandatory verification began on 18 November 2025, but that date is not a universal deadline. Director timing follows the relevant formation, appointment or confirmation statement. PSC timing depends on the person’s circumstances.

Later requirements

Later requirements announced for people filing, corporate directors and officers of corporate PSCs must not be treated as operational before they are brought into force.

Current PSC timing in brief

A person who became a PSC after 18 November 2025 may provide the code when first added to the register or within 14 days after being added. An existing PSC who is also a director of the same company has a 14-day period beginning the day after the company’s confirmation-statement date. An existing PSC who is not a director of that company uses the first 14 days of their birth month. The current Companies House register can show the individual period.

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, and Coddan does not charge for the person’s use of that official route.

Review the free official route

Coddan’s supported ACSP route

Where suitable and agreed, Coddan coordinates supported verification and may coordinate the resulting code with separately authorised formation or filing work.

Read the official Personal Code guidance

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 roleWe establish the individual, CLG and whether the matter concerns a director, individual PSC or both.
2. Coordinate a supported checkCoddan creates the individual file using the required personal and contact information. The person receives a secure link and supplies supported evidence.
3. Review and submitWe review the identity and address evidence, including the selfie or liveness result, and make the authorised ACSP submission where satisfactory.
4. Companies House issues the codeCompanies House sends the Personal Code to the individual’s supplied email address. Coddan does not create the code.
5. Confirm the correct useWe identify each affected company and role and check which current process applies.
6. Complete agreed company workWhere authorised and appropriately supplied with the code, Coddan may use it in the separately agreed formation or filing process.

Coddan is not Companies House. ACSP registration does not constitute official endorsement. Coddan cannot guarantee code delivery, role connection or acceptance of an underlying filing.

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

Keep your Personal Code safe

The code may be supplied to a person properly authorised to file on your behalf, such as an accountant, company secretary or formation agent. That is different from publishing it or treating it as a general company credential.

Do not send it in a general enquiry

Only supply the code through an appropriate official process or to a person authorised for the relevant filing.

If the code may be compromised

Contact Companies House. Its current guidance says it can issue a new code by email and cancel the previous one.

What if the code does not match?

A connection problem does not necessarily mean that identity verification must be repeated. The first task is to identify where the mismatch appears.

Code or role process

Check that the code belongs to the named individual, has been entered accurately and is being supplied through the correct director or PSC process.

Date of birth or personal details

Companies House says an incorrect date of birth on its records may need to be corrected before the verified identity can be connected.

ACSP-supplied information

Where the verifying ACSP supplied an incorrect detail or email address, the individual should contact that ACSP so the position can be reviewed.

Company record or appointment

An inaccurate filing, disputed appointment or unclear PSC position requires the appropriate correction, official or professional route. The Personal Code does not repair it.

How we identify the correct next step

Identify the person and CLGConfirm the individual, proposed or registered company and relevant event.
Separate the affected rolesEstablish whether the person is a director, individual PSC or both.
Confirm verification and accessIdentify how verification was completed and whether the code was received or can be accessed.
Check the informationCompare the relevant name, date of birth, company and role information before code use.
Provide the code correctlyUse it separately through each applicable director or PSC process.
Complete the company workContinue with the valid formation, appointment, confirmation statement, PSC filing or corrective route.

What information should you provide?

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

The CLG and event

Proposed or registered name, company number and whether the matter concerns formation, appointment, an existing director, PSC status or a confirmation statement.

The individual and roles

Full name, date of birth, residential address and whether the person is a director, individual PSC or both, including every affected company.

Verification and code access

How verification was completed, the email address used and whether the code was received or can be accessed. Do not provide the code itself here.

Dates and filing support

Relevant formation, appointment, confirmation-statement or PSC dates and whether an authorised agent will make the related filing.

Errors or differences

Any error message and any apparent difference in name, date of birth, email address, company or role information.

Security concern

State whether the code may have been disclosed or compromised without copying the code into your enquiry.

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

What the Personal Code does not do

Providing the code confirms identity verification for the relevant role. It does not replace the legal or company work supporting that role.

It does not form or incorporate a CLG.
It does not appoint a director or prove that an appointment was authorised.
It does not create membership, guarantor status or PSC status.
It does not correct an inaccurate Companies House filing or internal company record.
It does not alter the articles, complete charity-regulator work or establish trustee eligibility.
It does not restore a dissolved company or guarantee acceptance of a filing.

Who is responsible for each stage?

The individual

Completes verification, keeps the code safe and authorises its proper use for relevant filings.

The CLG

Its authorised decision-makers control valid appointments, company decisions, records and filing instructions.

Coddan

Within the agreed scope, we coordinate supported verification and appropriately authorised formation or filing work.

Companies House

It controls official verification, issue and replacement of Personal Codes, role connection, the register and filing acceptance.

What affects the work, cost and timing?

Reusing the same Personal Code does not itself mean buying another verification service. Charges depend on the professional and filing work Coddan is asked to undertake.

Verification and accessWhether verification is complete, how it was completed and whether the code can be accessed.

Companies and rolesThe number of affected companies and whether the person is a director, PSC or both.

Problems and correctionsMismatched details, incorrect email information, inaccurate filings or separately required corrective work.

Separate work and chargesCoddan’s professional charge and VAT, applicable official charges, and agreed formation, appointment, PSC, confirmation-statement, governance or legal work.

Frequently asked questions

What is a Companies House Personal Code?

It is the 11-character code Companies House gives or makes available to an individual after successful identity verification. It is personal to that individual.

Who issues the Personal Code?

Companies House. An ACSP such as Coddan may conduct and submit supported verification, but it does not create or issue the code.

Is it the same as the company authentication code?

No. A Personal Code relates to a verified individual. A company authentication code is a separate company filing credential.

Do I receive a different code for every company?

Normally, no. You reuse the same personal code, but must provide it through the applicable process for every affected company and role.

Do I need different codes as a director and PSC?

No. You normally use the same code, but provide it separately for the director role and the PSC role.

Where does an existing director provide the code?

Through the company’s applicable confirmation-statement process. A director of several companies must deal with each company separately.

When does an individual PSC provide the code?

The 14-day period depends on whether the person became a PSC after 18 November 2025 and whether an existing PSC is also a director. Check the current Companies House record and guidance for the individual period.

Can Coddan use the code in a filing for me?

Where Coddan is authorised to make the relevant filing and the code is supplied through the agreed process, it may be used for that filing. Do not send it through a general enquiry.

What if I cannot find the code?

How you access it depends on how you verified. Check your Companies House account and relevant email. If an ACSP verified you, contact it to confirm the email address supplied.

What if the code or date of birth does not match?

Check that the correct code was entered for the correct person. An incorrect date of birth or other record difference may need to be corrected before connection can succeed.

What if my code has been shared or compromised?

Contact Companies House. Its current guidance says it can send a replacement code by email and cancel the previous code.

Does providing the code appoint me as a director or create PSC status?

No. The underlying appointment, control position and filing must be valid independently of identity verification and code use.

Does the code correct an inaccurate Companies House record?

No. An inaccurate director, PSC or personal-detail record requires the appropriate correction or official process.

What information should I provide?

Provide the company, individual, roles, relevant dates, verification route and any error or mismatch. Do not include the actual Personal Code in a general enquiry.

What affects the work, cost and timing?

The number of companies and roles, whether verification and code access are complete, any mismatch and the formation, filing or corrective work requested all matter.

Connect the right person to the right role

Tell us which CLG, individual and director or PSC process is involved. We can identify where the code must be used and whether separate formation, filing or corrective work is required.

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Companies House Personal Codes and Role Connection for CLG Directors and PSCs

Is this the right service for you?

You have a code but do not know where to use it

You hold more than one role

The code will not connect

What is your Companies House Personal Code?

One code for the individual

Separate use for each role

Not a company credential

Not authority to act

What happens after identity verification?

1. Complete verification

2. Receive or access the code

3. Provide it for the role

4. Complete the company event

How will you receive or find the code?

After the free official route

After verification through an ACSP

Where must the code be provided?

Proposed director

New director

Existing director

Individual PSC

If you are both a director and PSC

Director use

PSC use

Using one code for several companies or roles

Verify the person once

Provide it more than once

Match the correct individual

No general authority

Current, transitional and later requirements

Current requirements

Individual timing

Later requirements

Current PSC timing in brief

Choose how to complete identity verification

Free Companies House route

Coddan’s supported ACSP route

What Coddan can coordinate

Keep your Personal Code safe

Do not send it in a general enquiry

If the code may be compromised

What if the code does not match?

Code or role process

Date of birth or personal details

ACSP-supplied information

Company record or appointment

How we identify the correct next step

What information should you provide?

The CLG and event

The individual and roles

Verification and code access

Dates and filing support

Errors or differences

Security concern

What the Personal Code does not do

Who is responsible for each stage?

The individual

The CLG

Coddan

Companies House

What affects the work, cost and timing?

Continue with the service that matches your requirement

Frequently asked questions

Connect the right person to the right role