Under the Companies Acts, the officers of a company are responsible for:
- Ensuring that all the legally required information is filed with Companies House (see question 9).
- Maintaining the company's registered office (see question 10).
- Keeping the company's statutory books and records (see question 11).
- Looking after the security of key legal documents (see question 12).
- Organising and recording board meetings (see question 13).
- Organising and recording general meetings of the shareholders (see question 14);
- Disclosing company details on premises and stationery, including the company's website.
Officers are also responsible for complying with a host of other laws, such as employment, health and safety, tax, data protection, distance selling, etc. Someone must also deal with administrative tasks such as managing buildings, arranging insurances, maintaining domain name and trade mark registrations, etc.
