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Which Companies House Share Forms Can Be Replicated in Inform Direct Without Filing?

James Collett
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Overview

Some Companies House share forms record administrative actions, but do not require electronic filing when performed in Inform Direct. You can safely replicate these transactions in Inform Direct for your company records, even if a filing has already been made on paper or elsewhere. This ensures your statutory registers remain complete and accurate without duplicate filings being made.

Share Actions That Can Be Safely Replicated in Inform Direct

You can use Inform Direct to perform and record these share actions without making an electronic filing to Companies House:

  • Create new share class (SH10)
  • Reclassify or convert shares (SH08)
  • Share split (SH02)
  • Share consolidation (SH02)
  • Redeem shares (SH02)
  • Purchase of own shares (SH03 & SH06)
  • Share capital reduction (SH19)
  • Cancel shares (SH05)
  • Allot new shares (SH01)

Filing Requirements

If you have already submitted a paper form (or filed these actions at Companies House previously), you may simply replicate the transaction in Inform Direct for your company registers—no additional electronic filing will be made.

However, if the transaction has not yet been recorded at Companies House, you must send the completed form produced by Inform Direct:

If Shares Were Allotted Directly at Companies House (SH01)

If new shares were allotted using Companies House WebFiling rather than through Inform Direct, running a Companies House sync will only update the total number of shares shown as in issue - it does not bring in the new shareholder's name or the number of shares they hold, because a manual sync only pulls totals rather than shareholder-level detail. To fully reflect the allotment - and to release your statutory registers and enable a share certificate for the new holding - you need to replicate the allotment in Inform Direct itself, as described above. See also How Can I Create a Share Certificate?