Establish whether ownership, voting rights or other control conditions make an individual a PSC before selecting the appropriate identity-verification or Companies House route.

Determine the Appropriate PSC Ownership and Control Route.

Whether the position involves shares, voting rights, appointment or removal rights, an LLP interest, indirect ownership, a trust, an agreement or significant influence or control, our professional team helps you identify the entity, relevant rights and apparent registrable subject before separating PSC classification from the individual's identity-verification process.

Identify the relevant company, Company Limited by Guarantee, LLP or other entity before applying the appropriate PSC framework to its ownership and control position.

Review the actual ownership, voting and control rights rather than relying only on a person's title as director, shareholder, member, trustee or beneficial owner.

Assess whether the relevant position concerns shares, voting rights, appointment or removal rights, LLP surplus-asset rights or another significant influence or control condition.

Consider direct and indirect ownership or control, including legal-entity chains, agreements, trust arrangements and other structures that may affect who is actually registrable.

Identify the appropriate registrable subject, distinguishing an individual PSC from a relevant legal entity or another permitted registrable entity before an individual verification route is selected.

Separate PSC classification from identity verification, recognising that an identity check establishes who the person is but does not itself establish ownership, control or PSC status.

Establish the evidence relevant to the ownership or control position, including Articles, LLP agreements, ownership charts, shareholder or voting agreements, trust information and relevant records.

Distinguish current individual PSC verification from separate entity notification, formation, filing or governance work so that completing one stage is not incorrectly treated as completing another.

Identify when an unclear ownership chain, disputed right, trust, agreement, significant-influence question or possible historic error requires separate professional or legal analysis rather than an automatic verification purchase.

Reduce avoidable administrative errors and back-and-forth by establishing the entity, relevant rights, apparent registrable subject and appropriate next route before identity verification or PSC notification is progressed.

Determine the Appropriate PSC Route

Coddan CPM is a UK-based legal and corporate services firm providing professional support to identify the apparent PSC, ownership or control position before the relevant identity-verification or Companies House process is selected.
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PSC changes and identity verification

When an Individual Becomes, Changes or Ceases to Be a PSC

A change involving a person with significant control can create several separate tasks. Coddan first establishes what actually happened, when it took effect and whether the person is still a PSC. We can then identify the individual’s verification step, the Personal Code requirement and the company’s or LLP’s separate notification work.

Real control event first Verification is personal Entity notification remains separate

Identify the change

Start with what changed, not with a filing

A person becomes or ceases to be a PSC because the applicable ownership or control conditions begin or end—not because a name is added to or removed from the Companies House register. A change in personal details or nature of control also has its own effective date and evidence.

Coddan can compare the legal and factual event with the information held by the company or LLP and by Companies House. This prevents identity verification, a Personal Code or a convenient form from being used to describe the wrong event.

Identity verification does not create or end PSC status. Personal Code use does not determine the nature of control, and registration does not validate an ownership or control conclusion.

What has happened to the PSC position?

Similar register entries can arise from different events. Each event must be identified before the correct notification and verification work is selected.

The person becomes a PSC

A relevant ownership or control condition begins to apply. The effective date and every applicable nature of control must be established.

The person is added to the register

The entity reports confirmed PSC information. The registration date and the date the person actually became a PSC may be different.

Personal details change

The person remains a PSC, but a registrable detail such as their name, service address, nationality or country of residence changes.

Control changes

The person remains a PSC but the applicable condition, band or description of control changes, or another condition begins or ends.

The person ceases to be a PSC

Every applicable PSC condition has ceased. Ending one right or another office does not necessarily end every source of control.

The PSC has died

A specific Companies House position applies. Identity verification is not required for the deceased PSC, and the register process depends on appropriate estate evidence.

One change can require several separate acts

Underlying event

The ownership, voting, appointment or influence arrangement actually begins, changes or ends.

Effective date

The date on which the real rights or control changed—not merely the filing date.

Confirmed particulars

The entity confirms the required personal and control information before reporting it.

Individual verification

The person completes the applicable Companies House or ACSP identity-verification route.

PSC code step

The Personal Code is provided for the PSC role through the applicable process.

Entity notification

The company or LLP separately delivers the required PSC information to Companies House.

Supporting records

Agreements, decisions and ownership or control evidence should support the position reported.

When an individual becomes a PSC

The entity must establish which PSC condition the person began to satisfy and the date this happened. It must obtain and confirm the required particulars and report the PSC position through the applicable company or LLP process. Identity verification confirms the individual’s identity; it does not decide whether the condition is met.

If the individual becomes a PSC after 18 November 2025, current Companies House guidance allows the Personal Code to be provided when the person is first added to the register or within 14 days after being added. The entity’s notification and the individual’s verification-detail requirement are both required and remain separate.

Page 6 owns the complete explanation of Personal Code access, the applicable 14-day period and separate code use where the person also holds another role.

When a PSC’s information or control changes

Personal details

A genuine later change may involve a name, service address, nationality, country of residence or another registrable detail. The new information must be confirmed and reported through the process applying to that detail.

Identity verification does not update the register automatically. An incorrect date of birth or information that was wrong when first filed is a corrective issue, not an ordinary later change.

Nature or level of control

A person may remain a PSC while their ownership band, voting rights, appointment rights or another nature of control changes. The entity must establish the real new position and its effective date.

Companies House guidance requires changes to PSC information to be reported within 14 days after the entity confirms the change. The Personal Code does not determine or amend the nature of control.

When a person ceases to be a PSC

Cessation requires every applicable PSC condition to have ended. Selling some shares, losing one voting right or leaving another office may change the nature of control without ending PSC status altogether. Coddan may need to review the ownership chain, agreements and effective date before the entity reports cessation.

Director leaves

A director’s resignation does not automatically end their PSC status. Their continuing ownership or control must be considered separately.

LLP member leaves

Cessation as an LLP member does not automatically end PSC status where another relevant control condition may continue.

PSC status ends

Ceasing to be a PSC does not automatically end a directorship or LLP membership. Each capacity requires its own valid event and process.

If the PSC has died

Current Companies House guidance states that identity verification is not required for a PSC who has died. It also states that the PSC should remain on the register until a grant of probate or letters of administration has been received.

Coddan can identify the company or LLP record involved and the apparent next official or professional route. Estate administration, interpretation of testamentary documents and decisions controlled by personal representatives remain outside ordinary identity-verification work.

A proposed PSC during company formation

When registering or incorporating a company, the proposed ownership and control arrangements may identify an individual PSC from the outset. The proposed PSC’s particulars, identity-verification position and Personal Code requirement must be considered alongside—but remain separate from—the incorporation application.

This page supports accurate identification of the person and event. It does not replace the complete company-formation service, decide every complex control question or suggest that verification incorporates the company.

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A new change is not the same as an earlier error

Genuine new change

The earlier information was accurate, but the person’s details or control later changed. The current-change process and true effective date should be used.

Earlier inaccuracy

The information was wrong, incomplete, duplicated or unauthorised when filed. The original document and defect must be examined before a corrective route is selected.

Do not report a false later change to disguise a historic error. Page 7 owns disputed PSC status, inaccurate historic filings, identity misuse and corrective-route selection.

Do not wait for the confirmation statement

The confirmation statement is not a universal substitute for a PSC notification required earlier. A company or LLP should report a genuine PSC appointment, cessation or information change through the applicable process and within the applicable period.

Confirmation-statement dates can affect the separate verification timing of some existing PSCs. Page 6 owns that detailed timing explanation; it does not alter the requirement to report a real PSC change correctly.

Current, transitional and future position

Current-position wording checked against official guidance on 20 September 2026.

Current

Individual PSCs must verify

A person becoming a PSC must meet the current identity-verification and PSC code requirements. The entity separately identifies, confirms and reports the PSC position and later changes.

Transitional

Dates remain person-specific

Mandatory identity verification began on 18 November 2025. Existing PSCs follow the period applying to their own role, registration history and dates; there is no single deadline that safely describes everyone.

Future

Later categories stay reserved

Requirements for officers of corporate PSCs and general filers must not be treated as current until they are commenced and operational guidance is available.

What Coddan can establish and coordinate

Within the agreed scope, Coddan can identify the entity and individual, establish the apparent event and effective date, distinguish personal-detail and control changes, review available supporting evidence, compare Companies House information and identify the applicable verification, Personal Code, notification or specialist route.

Event review

Review the stated ownership or control event, date and available decisions, agreements and records.

Verification route

Identify whether the free Companies House route or separately agreed Coddan ACSP support is appropriate.

Separate implementation

Coordinate an authorised PSC notification or related entity work only where that service is confirmed and expressly agreed.

Free Companies House verification or Coddan support

An eligible individual may use the free official Companies House verification route. Professional ACSP assistance is not compulsory, and an entity change does not automatically mean that another paid verification service is required.

Coddan CPM Limited is registered as an Authorised Corporate Service Provider and is supervised by HMRC for anti-money-laundering purposes. Where Coddan’s supported route is selected, Coddan can create the verification file, use its secure identity-verification provider, review the result and, where satisfactory and authorised, submit the verification information through its ACSP account.

Companies House—not Coddan or the provider—issues the Personal Code. Coddan’s onboarding, anti-money-laundering checks, evidence review, ACSP submission, Personal Code use and any entity filing remain distinct.

What information should you provide?

“Not known” is an acceptable answer. You do not need to decide the legal PSC position or choose a filing before Coddan reviews the event.

Entity and person

Company or LLP name and number; the individual’s name and date of birth; and any director, member or other relevant role.

The event and date

What began, changed or ended; the actual or proposed effective date; and when the information was confirmed.

Control evidence

Relevant ownership, voting, appointment, management or other control information and supporting agreements or decisions.

Current records

What Companies House displays, any PSC notification already made and the entity’s relevant supporting records.

Verification position

How identity verification was or will be completed, whether a Personal Code has been received, and any Companies House message.

Uncertainty

Any disagreement about ownership, control, authority, dates or earlier information, and any process already under way.

This section does not transmit an enquiry. Use Coddan’s normal website contact details. Do not place an actual Personal Code, password, company authentication code or sensitive unredacted identity evidence in a general website enquiry.

What this service does not do

Identity verification, Personal Code use and Coddan’s review do not create or end PSC status, determine a nature of control, admit or remove an LLP member, appoint or remove a director, complete incorporation, validate an unauthorised decision or correct an inaccurate historic filing automatically.

Indirect corporate, trust and firm arrangements belong to Page 5. Detailed code timing and dual-role use belong to Page 6. A disputed PSC position, inaccurate earlier filing, possible identity misuse or corrective procedure belongs to Page 7 and may require Companies House, professional or legal action.

Frequently asked questions

When does someone become a PSC?

They become a PSC when they begin to satisfy at least one applicable statutory ownership or control condition. The effective date comes from the real event, not simply the filing date.

Does adding a person to Companies House make them a PSC?

No. The register records information delivered to Companies House. PSC status arises from the underlying ownership or control conditions.

What must a person who becomes a PSC after 18 November 2025 do?

They must complete the applicable identity-verification requirement. Current guidance allows the Personal Code to be provided when the person is first added to the register or within 14 days after addition. The entity’s PSC notification remains separate.

Does the Personal Code decide the nature of control?

No. The code connects a verified identity to the PSC role. The underlying rights and evidence determine the applicable nature or level of control.

How is a change in a PSC’s details reported?

The entity confirms the genuine new information and uses the process applying to that detail. Current guidance requires PSC information changes to be reported within 14 days after confirmation.

Does identity verification update changed details automatically?

No. Verification and the entity’s change notification are separate. The appropriate notification is still required.

When does a person cease to be a PSC?

Only when every applicable PSC condition has ended. The evidence and effective date should be established before cessation is reported.

Does resigning as a director end PSC status?

Not automatically. A person may cease as a director while continuing to own shares, hold voting rights or exercise another form of control.

Does leaving an LLP end PSC status?

Not automatically. The person’s continuing rights or influence must be considered separately from the member-cessation event.

Can we wait until the confirmation statement?

Not where an earlier PSC notification is required. The confirmation statement is not a universal substitute for reporting a genuine PSC change.

What happens if a PSC has died?

Companies House says identity verification is not required for a deceased PSC and that the PSC should remain on the register until a grant of probate or letters of administration has been received.

What if the earlier PSC filing was already wrong?

That is not an ordinary new change. The original filing, evidence and authority should be examined before a corrective or legal route is selected.

Can Coddan coordinate verification and the PSC notification?

Coddan can coordinate work that is operationally confirmed, authorised and included in the agreed scope. Verification, Personal Code use, PSC analysis and the entity’s notification remain separate services and decisions.

Tell us what changed and when

Provide the entity, individual, apparent event, effective date and available ownership or control evidence. Coddan can identify the verification, PSC notification and specialist work that may be required without asking you to choose the legal conclusion first.

Discuss the PSC change

PSC Ownership, Voting Rights and Control Verification Guide.

Establish whether ownership, voting rights or other control conditions make an individual a PSC before selecting the appropriate identity-verification or Companies House route.

Follow the PSC lifecycle journey from identifying the real change through establishing its effective date, verification position and separate Companies House notification.