Identify the correct identity-verification requirement within an LLP with corporate members or relevant legal entities and trace the membership and control structure before selecting the appropriate individual or entity route.

Determine the Appropriate Corporate Partner and RLE Verification Route.

Whether your LLP has a corporate member, a layered ownership or control structure, an RLE or an individual who may separately control the LLP, our professional team helps you establish the relevant capacity and current verification position and identify the appropriate route before individual verification or related Companies House procedures are progressed.

Identify the LLP, its members and relevant legal entities before determining which identity-verification, PSC or RLE process applies.

Distinguish individual members, corporate members, RLEs and individual PSCs so that different legal and verification positions are not treated as interchangeable.

Map the relevant membership, voting, management and control rights to establish how the LLP's actual structure should be understood.

Trace corporate and other legal-entity chains where an LLP member is itself an entity or where the relevant registrable position cannot be identified from the immediate membership list.

Identify the natural person, where applicable, who separately holds a current individual-member or individual-PSC verification requirement without assuming that an officer, shareholder or beneficial owner of a corporate member automatically has that status.

Separate current requirements from future identity-verification obligations so that a corporate member, RLE or officer position is not incorrectly presented as an operational individual verification requirement.

Choose the appropriate verification pathway, whether using the available Companies House route directly or professional support through an ACSP where an affected individual has a current requirement.

Keep entity reporting, individual verification and Personal Code use distinct so that completing one stage is not treated as completing another corporate or PSC requirement.

Use professional support where the ownership or control structure is layered or difficult to classify, including structures involving several legal entities or jurisdictions.

Reduce avoidable administrative errors and back-and-forth by establishing the membership, control position, registrable result and affected individual before progressing the relevant LLP procedure.

Determine Your Corporate Partner and RLE Verification Route

Coddan CPM is a UK-based legal and corporate services firm providing professional support with Companies House identity-verification requirements arising within LLP corporate-member, RLE and individual-control structures through its ACSP framework.
Call us on: 033 0808 0089 to discuss the appropriate corporate-member, RLE or individual verification route for your LLP circumstances.

ACSP Verification for LLPs with Corporate Partners & Relevant Legal Entities

LLP identity verification

Identity Verification for LLPs with Corporate Members, RLEs and Individual Controllers

If a company or another legal entity is an LLP member, the name at the top of the structure does not by itself show who must verify. Coddan can help trace the membership and control chain, identify the registrable result and separate the natural people with current identity-verification duties from corporate and officer requirements that have not yet commenced.

Understand the control chain What information to provide

A corporate member, a registrable relevant legal entity and an individual PSC are not interchangeable. The structure must be examined before a reporting, verification or Personal Code step is selected.

When this service may help

This page is for an LLP whose membership or control cannot be understood by looking only at a list of natural-person members. We first establish the legal entities, the rights they hold and the people who may control the LLP.

A corporate member

A company, LLP or other legal entity is or will become a member, and you need to separate its filing position from the position of the people behind it.

A layered entity chain

One entity owns or controls another, possibly across several jurisdictions, and the first registrable person or legal entity is not obvious.

An individual controller

A natural person may influence or control the LLP without being an LLP member, or may hold rights through a legal entity, trust or firm.

Current or future duties

You are unsure whether the legal entity, its officers, an individual member, an individual PSC or the person making a filing currently needs to verify.

Start with the legal chain—not a person’s job title

The correct approach is to work through the LLP’s actual membership, rights and control arrangements. A director, shareholder or beneficial owner of a corporate member is not automatically an LLP member or an LLP PSC merely because of that connection.

1. Identify the LLPConfirm the registered or proposed LLP, its status and the event being considered.

2. Identify every memberSeparate natural-person members from companies, LLPs and other legal entities.

3. Map the relevant rightsReview rights to surplus assets, votes, management appointments and other influence or control.

4. Follow entity chainsEstablish whether a legal entity is registrable or whether the enquiry must continue through the chain.

5. Identify natural peopleDetermine whether a person separately holds a current individual-member or individual-PSC role.

6. Match the correct processKeep the LLP event, PSC or RLE reporting, verification and Personal Code use separate.

Which capacity creates the current requirement?

The same structure may contain several different capacities. Each one has to be considered on its own facts.

Capacity	Current identity-verification position	What must remain separate
Individual LLP member	Within the current framework. This includes an individual designated member in their capacity as a member.	Verification does not admit, designate or remove the member.
Corporate member	Companies House guidance places corporate LLP-member verification among requirements to be introduced later.	The entity’s membership and filing information remain current LLP matters; future verification must not be presented as operational.
Individual PSC	Within the current framework and subject to the applicable PSC verification and code process.	Identity verification does not determine whether a PSC condition is met.
Registrable relevant legal entity	The entity may be registrable under the PSC regime, but it is not an individual Personal Code holder.	RLE reporting and identity verification of natural people are different questions.
Officer of a corporate member or corporate PSC	No current requirement arises solely from that officer capacity; relevant corporate and officer requirements are announced for later introduction.	A separate current individual-member or individual-PSC role must still be checked.
Beneficial owner or controller	The label alone creates no automatic answer. The LLP PSC conditions and entity-chain rules must be applied.	Economic interest, membership, management office and PSC status are not interchangeable.
Person filing for the LLP	The general filer requirement remains future unless the individual separately has a current affected role.	Authority to file, identity verification and responsibility for the underlying information remain distinct.

Do not verify the organisational chart. Companies House identity verification applies to people in affected individual capacities. The legal entities and control chain determine which capacities exist and what must be reported.

Who Must Verify for an LLP? Members, Designated Members, Corporate Members and PSCs

A corporate member is a legal person—not a Personal Code holder

An LLP may have a company, another LLP or another qualifying legal person as a member. The entity’s admission, designation, cessation and registrable details are LLP matters, but the current identity-verification framework must not be applied to the entity as though it were a natural person.

Membership comes first

The LLP must establish that the legal entity is or will be a member, the effective date, whether it is designated, and the information required for the relevant LLP process.

No entity Personal Code

A Companies House Personal Code is issued to a verified individual. It is not issued to the corporate member and must not be invented or borrowed for the entity.

People behind the entity

Shareholders, directors, members or officers of the corporate member are not automatically members or PSCs of the LLP. Their actual rights and other capacities must be checked.

Corporate designated member

Designation gives the corporate member additional LLP responsibilities. It does not turn the entity into an individual or make the future corporate-member identity-verification requirement current.

What is a registrable relevant legal entity?

A registrable relevant legal entity, commonly shortened to RLE, is not simply any corporate member. Broadly, it is a legal entity that meets a PSC condition in relation to the LLP and satisfies the statutory conditions that make the entity itself registrable.

A corporate member is not automatically an RLE

The entity must meet the applicable control and transparency conditions. Membership by itself does not settle the PSC-register result.

An RLE need not be treated as an individual

Its registrable particulars may need to be reported, but the entity does not complete a natural-person identity check or receive an individual Personal Code.

The chain may continue

If a legal entity is not registrable, it may be necessary to look through it to another entity or natural person. The result depends on the actual chain and applicable law.

Layered, overseas, trust-connected or disputed structures may require a separate PSC or legal analysis. This page does not replace that work or guarantee a particular registrable result.

When an individual controller may be a PSC

An individual may be a PSC because of rights or control, including through another entity, trust or firm. The LLP’s actual agreement and arrangements must be examined. The statutory conditions include the following.

Surplus assets

Rights to more than 25% of the surplus assets on a winding up.

Voting rights

Holding, directly or indirectly, more than 25% of the voting rights.

Management appointments

The right to appoint or remove a majority of the people entitled to take part in the LLP’s management.

Other influence or control

The right to exercise, or actual exercise of, significant influence or control over the LLP.

Trust or firm

Significant influence or control over a trust or firm that would meet an earlier condition if it were an individual.

A designated member is not automatically a PSC.

Likewise, a person does not have to be an LLP member to be a PSC. Ordinary professional, employee or officer activity is not automatically significant influence or control, but the combined facts and any rights beyond an ordinary role may need separate examination.

How the chain may lead to different results

These examples show why the structure must be examined. They are illustrations only; they do not decide the outcome for your LLP.

Example A

Corporate member is registrable

If the corporate member meets an LLP PSC condition and qualifies as an RLE, the entity may be the registrable result. Natural people must still be checked for any separate current individual-member or individual-PSC capacity.

Example B

The entity is not itself registrable

The enquiry may need to continue through the legal-person chain to another registrable entity or natural person. Overseas status alone does not decide the result.

Example C

Individual behind a corporate member

A shareholder or officer of the corporate member is not automatically an LLP member. They currently verify only if the facts establish a separate affected individual role, such as individual PSC.

Example D

One person holds several capacities

A person may be an officer of a corporate member, an individual LLP member and an individual PSC. Current and future duties must be applied separately to each capacity.

The underlying LLP event still has to be completed

Finding the correct member, RLE or PSC is not the same as completing the incorporation, appointment or change. The underlying event must exist, be properly supported and be reported through the applicable process.

At incorporation

The proposed members, designated members, PSCs or RLEs and their required particulars must be established. Current individual-member Personal Codes are part of the applicable incorporation process; entity reporting remains separate.

When a member changes

Admission, designation, cessation or a change in particulars must reflect a real LLP event and its effective date. Verification does not create or validate that event.

When control changes

A new PSC or RLE, a cessation or a change in the nature of control requires its own factual analysis and applicable notification. A Personal Code does not create or end control.

Identity Verification Before and During LLP Incorporation

Current, transitional and future position

The following position was checked on 20 September 2026. The relevant date and capacity must be confirmed again before action is taken.

Current

Natural people in affected roles

Individual LLP members and individual PSCs are within the current mandatory identity-verification framework. Their role-specific Personal Code steps and dates remain separate.

The LLP must also meet current obligations concerning its members and PSC or RLE information.

Transitional

Existing roles follow individual timing

Mandatory identity verification began on 18 November 2025. Existing individual members and PSCs follow the applicable role and event timing.

18 November 2026 is not one universal deadline for every individual, LLP or capacity.

Future

Corporate and general-filer duties

Companies House states that requirements for corporate LLP members, officers of corporate PSCs and people who file will be introduced later.

These announced duties are not presented here as an available current process or Coddan service.

Personal Codes belong to individuals

Companies House provides a Personal Code after a person successfully completes identity verification. The code belongs to that individual—not to the LLP, a corporate member, an RLE, Coddan or another agent.

Individual member

Uses the Personal Code through the applicable member process for the relevant LLP event.

Individual PSC

Provides the code through the applicable PSC process and within the person’s relevant period.

Member and PSC

Normally keeps the same code but provides it separately through each role process. One use does not complete the other.

Corporate member or RLE

Does not receive an individual Personal Code. The entity’s registrable information must be handled through the appropriate LLP or PSC process.

Providing a Personal Code does not prove membership, create PSC status, validate the control analysis or complete an LLP filing automatically.

The free Companies House route remains available

An eligible individual may verify through the free official Companies House service. Professional ACSP assistance is not compulsory.

Check the free Companies House identity-verification route

First confirm that an individual duty exists

A paid verification service is not the answer to every corporate-member or control question. Coddan should first establish whether the work concerns an individual who must verify, an entity that must be reported, a control analysis or an LLP filing.

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. That status does not make Coddan Companies House or determine the legal control position.

Structure and role review

Identify the LLP, members, legal entities, RLE question, individual controllers and every current or future capacity that may matter.

Current-duty identification

Separate individual members and individual PSCs who currently need to verify from entities and officers whose requirements remain future.

Supported verification

Where suitable and agreed, coordinate an individual’s supported route using Coddan’s secure identity-verification provider, review the result and submit through Coddan’s ACSP account when satisfied and authorised.

Related LLP work

Coordinate separately agreed incorporation, member, PSC, confirmation-statement or post-formation work within Coddan’s confirmed operational scope.

Coddan does not issue Personal Codes, invent a missing control right, decide a disputed PSC position, make an LLP decision or guarantee Companies House acceptance.

If a natural person needs supported verification

Once a current affected individual has been identified and Coddan’s route is selected and confirmed, the verification work remains separate from the control analysis and LLP event.

1. Identify the individual roleCoddan confirms the person, LLP and current individual-member or individual-PSC capacity.
2. Create the verification fileCoddan records the required name, date of birth, residential address, email address and telephone number.
3. Complete the secure checkThe individual receives a secure link by email or text and supplies supported identity and address evidence with the required selfie or liveness step.
4. Review the evidenceCoddan reviews the result and any exceptional evidence. The technology result is not itself the Companies House decision.
5. Submit when authorisedWhere satisfied and authorised, Coddan manually submits the required verification information through its Companies House ACSP account.
6. Continue with the role processCompanies House sends the Personal Code to the individual. Code use, PSC or RLE reporting and the underlying LLP filing remain separate.

How Coddan identifies the correct route

The service follows the legal structure before it reaches a verification route.

Identify the LLP and legal entities

Confirm the LLP, every member and the legal form and jurisdiction of each entity in the relevant chain.

Map membership and control

Review the LLP agreement, asset, voting, management and other control rights and the effective dates.

Establish the registrable result

Determine whether the relevant result is an individual PSC, an RLE, another statutory statement or a matter needing specialist analysis.

Separate current and future duties

Identify current individual-member and individual-PSC duties while reserving uncommenced corporate-member, officer and filer requirements.

Verify affected individuals

Use the free official route or an agreed ACSP route for each natural person who has a current requirement.

Complete the LLP and PSC work

Use the correct code through each affected role process and complete the valid incorporation, appointment, change or reporting work separately.

What information should you provide?

Provide what is available. “Not known” is an acceptable answer. You do not need to decide who is an RLE or PSC before Coddan reviews the structure.

The LLP

Registered or proposed name, company number where available, jurisdiction, status and relevant incorporation or change date.

Every member

Natural-person and corporate members, designated status, admission or cessation dates and current particulars.

Every legal entity

Full legal name, legal form, registration number, governing law, registered office and place of registration where applicable.

The ownership chain

Shareholders, members, parent entities and the direct and indirect links between them.

Rights and control

The LLP agreement and information about surplus assets, votes, management appointments, vetoes and other influence or control.

Natural people

Individuals said to be members, officers, owners, controllers, settlors, trustees or beneficiaries and the reason they may be relevant.

PSC and RLE position

Current PSC information, statutory statements, nature-of-control details, notices and any previous professional analysis.

Verification status

Which natural people have verified, how they verified and whether a Personal Code has been received or can be accessed.

Changes or disputes

Any recent transaction, appointment, cessation, change of rights, disagreement, missing record or Companies House inconsistency.

Do not place a Personal Code, password, company authentication code or unredacted identity evidence in a general website enquiry.

This section does not transmit an enquiry. Use Coddan’s normal contact details so the appropriate secure route can be confirmed.

What this service does not do

Identity verification and a structure review do not by themselves:

incorporate the LLP;
admit, designate or remove a member;
make a corporate member an RLE;
create, end or determine PSC status;
prove that an individual or entity controls the LLP;
validate an LLP agreement, transaction or decision;
turn a future corporate or officer requirement into a current one;
issue a Personal Code to an entity or individual;
complete the member or PSC filing automatically;
correct an inaccurate register;
resolve disputed ownership, authority or control; or
guarantee Companies House or legal acceptance.

A separate formation, post-formation, PSC, company-secretarial, correction, tax, regulatory or legal service may be required. Complex or disputed chains may need advice from a solicitor or another appropriately qualified professional.

Who is responsible for each stage?

The LLP and its members

Provide accurate instructions, establish valid LLP events, preserve the agreement and supporting records, investigate PSCs and report required information.

The affected individual

Provides accurate personal information, completes their own verification step, protects the Personal Code and authorises appropriate code use.

Coddan

Performs only the structure review, verification, preparation, filing or coordination work it is authorised and engaged to undertake.

Companies House

Controls its verification services, Personal Codes, filing acceptance and the public register. It does not make every disputed legal or control decision.

Legal and other advisers

May be required where ownership, control, governing law, authority, trust arrangements or the registrable result is complex or disputed.

What affects the work, cost and timing?

The scope may depend on the number and type of members, the number of entity layers and jurisdictions, whether the entities are registrable, the LLP agreement and control rights, the quality of the ownership records, the number of affected individuals, whether verification is already complete, and whether incorporation, member, PSC, confirmation-statement, correction or legal work is separately required.

It may also depend on missing or inconsistent evidence, changes during the review, disputed control, Coddan’s professional charge, Value Added Tax, applicable official charges and separately agreed professional work. No processing time, registrable result or filing outcome is guaranteed.

Verification is not automatically the service you need. The free route remains available where suitable, a corporate entity does not buy an individual verification check, and reusing an individual’s existing Personal Code is not automatically a new verification service.

Use the destination that matches the actual decision. Corporate membership, PSC or RLE analysis, individual verification and the underlying LLP event remain separate.

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Frequently asked questions

Does a corporate LLP member have to verify now?

Current Companies House guidance says identity verification for corporate LLP members will be introduced later. The entity’s current membership and reporting obligations still apply, and any natural person with a separate current affected role must be assessed in that capacity.

Does a corporate designated member verify because it is designated?

No current individual-style requirement arises merely because the corporate member is designated. Designation creates additional LLP responsibilities, while the corporate-member identity-verification requirement remains future.

What is an RLE?

It is a legal entity that meets a PSC condition in relation to the LLP and satisfies the statutory conditions making that entity registrable. Not every corporate member is automatically an RLE.

Does an RLE receive a Personal Code?

No. A Personal Code is issued to a verified natural person. The RLE’s required particulars are handled through the applicable PSC reporting process.

Must every director or officer of a corporate member verify?

Not solely because of that office under the current LLP framework. Companies House lists relevant corporate and corporate-PSC officer requirements for later introduction. A person may still have a current duty if they are separately an individual LLP member or individual PSC.

Is the ultimate owner always the LLP’s PSC?

No automatic conclusion should be made. The statutory conditions and legal-entity chain rules must be applied to the actual rights and arrangements. An RLE may be the registrable result in some structures.

Can a non-member be an LLP PSC?

Yes. Membership is not required if the individual otherwise satisfies a PSC condition, for example through significant influence or control. The facts must be assessed.

Is every designated member a PSC?

No. Designated-member status carries LLP responsibilities but does not itself establish a PSC condition. Rights and actual control must be considered separately.

Is a beneficial owner automatically a PSC?

Not merely because that label is used. The person’s direct and indirect rights, the entity chain and the LLP PSC conditions must be examined.

What if the corporate member is overseas?

Its legal form, governing law, registration and position in the control chain must be established. Overseas status does not by itself make the entity an RLE, remove reporting duties or decide which natural person may be registrable.

What if the same person is an individual member and PSC?

The person normally verifies once and keeps the same Personal Code, but supplies it separately through the applicable member and PSC processes. One role step does not complete the other.

Can an eligible individual use the free route?

Yes. The free official Companies House route remains available where suitable. Using Coddan or another ACSP is not compulsory.

Does identity verification decide who controls the LLP?

No. Verification establishes a person’s identity within the Companies House framework. It does not determine ownership, control, PSC status or whether a legal entity is registrable.

Does an incorporation filing complete every PSC code step?

No assumption should be made. Incorporation, member Personal Code use, PSC reporting and the individual PSC code process are separate requirements and must be checked for each person and event.

When may specialist legal advice be required?

It may be needed where the ownership or control chain is complex, overseas law matters, trust or firm arrangements are involved, records are missing, or membership, authority, ownership or control is disputed.

What should I provide first?

Start with the LLP agreement, member list, entity details, an ownership or control chart if one exists, voting and management rights, current PSC information and the relevant event dates. “Not known” is acceptable.

Start with the structure, then verify the right people

Tell Coddan about the LLP, its members, the legal entities in the chain and the rights that may create control. We can help separate current individual duties from entity reporting, future requirements and any specialist control analysis still needed.

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