Is this the right service for your LLP?

Use this service when you know who is involved with the LLP but are unsure whether the person is an individual member, designated member, PSC or someone connected with a corporate member. Coddan separates the capacities before you arrange verification, use a Personal Code or prepare an LLP filing.

Which capacity creates the current requirement?

The answer depends first on whether the member is an individual or a legal entity, and then on every separate role held. The following distinctions prevent duplicate checks and prevent future requirements being treated as current.

Do not classify by job title alone. “Partner”, “managing partner”, “owner”, “representative” or “authorised signatory” may describe a commercial function without establishing the registered LLP capacity or the PSC position.

Ordinary and designated members: the identity standard is the same

An LLP must have at least two designated members. If it has fewer than two expressly designated members, the applicable statutory rules may treat every member as designated. That affects responsibility for the LLP; it does not convert a corporate entity into an individual verification applicant.

Being a member or designated member does not automatically make someone a PSC

The LLP’s agreement, economic rights, voting arrangements, management rights and actual control must be examined. A person may be a PSC without being a member, and a member may not be a PSC.

Identity verification does not decide PSC status. It confirms the individual’s identity within the Companies House framework. The underlying control position and the information reported for it must be established separately.

If the same person is a member, designated member and PSC

The individual normally completes identity verification once and retains one Companies House Personal Code. The code is then used through the process applying to each affected role.

Using the code for the member role does not complete the PSC requirement. Using it for the PSC role does not create or confirm membership. Neither use validates the underlying admission or control position.

Check what applies now, during the transition and later

Official position checked: 20 September 2026.

Where the free Companies House verification service is suitable for an affected individual, professional assistance is not compulsory. Review the free official route.

What Coddan can establish

Coddan can review the supplied LLP, membership and control information, identify each current or proposed capacity and explain whether the free official route, Coddan’s supported ACSP route or another LLP service is appropriate.

Coddan is not Companies House and does not issue Personal Codes. The provider’s technology result, Coddan’s evidence review, Coddan’s ACSP submission, Companies House code issue, code use and the underlying LLP event remain separate. Coddan’s client onboarding and anti-money-laundering checks also remain distinct from Companies House identity verification.

How we identify the appropriate next step

1. 1Identify the LLP and everyone involvedConfirm the existing or proposed LLP, its jurisdiction, each person or entity and the information currently shown by Companies House.
2. 2Separate the capacitiesEstablish individual or corporate membership, ordinary or designated status, PSC or RLE status and any separate filing or control capacity.
3. 3Review control where neededUse the LLP agreement and actual rights to identify whether an individual PSC or RLE may need to be reported.
4. 4Apply the correct dateIdentify incorporation, appointment, confirmation-statement, birth-month or PSC-event timing for each affected individual.
5. 5Choose the appropriate routeUse the free Companies House route where suitable or agree Coddan’s supported individual ACSP route. A future corporate duty is not converted into a current service.
6. 6Complete each separate LLP stepUse the Personal Code for each current affected role and continue separately with the valid incorporation, appointment, PSC, confirmation-statement or other LLP work.

What information should you provide?

Provide the information you have. “Not known” is an acceptable answer where the capacity, control position or relevant date has not yet been established. Do not place an actual Personal Code, password, LLP authentication code or sensitive identity document in a general website enquiry.

This section does not transmit an enquiry. When you are ready, contact Coddan using the normal website contact details so that secure handling can be agreed where sensitive evidence is required.

What happens after the capacity is clear?

An affected individual completes the appropriate free or supported verification route. Companies House then issues or makes available the individual’s Personal Code. The code belongs to the individual rather than to the LLP.

Verification is not the final LLP event. The code must be used through each applicable member or PSC process. Incorporation, admission, designation, PSC reporting and other filings must still reflect a real, properly supported LLP event.

What this service does not do

Identity verification does not incorporate an LLP, admit or remove a member, make a person designated, create or end PSC status, decide disputed control, confer filing authority or correct the Companies House register.

This classification service also does not replace LLP agreement advice, corporate-member due diligence, a full PSC legal analysis, appointment or cessation work, a confirmation statement, correction, restoration or court proceedings. Where one of those is the real task, it must be addressed separately.

Who is responsible for each part?

What affects the work, cost and timing?

The free Companies House verification route has no Coddan professional charge. Classification may show that no paid identity-verification service is required. Where Coddan support is requested, the scope depends on the actual capacities, records and work still outstanding.

• The number of individuals, corporate members, legal entities and overlapping capacities.
• Whether membership, designation and PSC information is complete and supported by the LLP’s actual arrangements.
• Whether incorporation, appointment, confirmation-statement, PSC, correction or another filing service is separately required.
• Coddan’s professional charge and VAT, applicable official charges and any separately agreed legal, governance or corrective work.