Section 1108: Transliteration of names and addresses: permitted characters

Companies Act 2006 · 2006 c. 46View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 35: The registrar of companies

Names and addresses in a document delivered to the registrar must contain only letters, characters and symbols (including accents and other diacritical marks) that are permitted.

The Secretary of State may make provision by regulations—

as to the letters, characters and symbols (including accents and other diacritical marks) that are permitted, and
permitting or requiring the delivery of documents in which names and addresses have not been transliterated into a permitted form.

Regulations under this section are subject to negative resolution procedure.

About this text

This legislation text comes from legislation.gov.uk. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. These source and reuse terms cover the legislation text, not Remedy's commentary.

Reuse reviewed 21 August 2026 under Open Government Licence v3.0.