Being a company director
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Understanding your role as director of a limited company and your responsibilities to Companies House.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 5
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-17
- Category
- Governance & assurance
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
Understanding your role as director of a limited company and your responsibilities to Companies House. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Directors' toolkit
- 'How to' video demonstrations
- Email reminders
- Subscribe to news and updates
- Webinars
- General duties of a company director
- Company's constitution
- Promote the success of the company
- Independent judgement
- Exercise reasonable care, skill and diligence
- Avoid conflicts of interest
- Third party benefits
- Interests in a transaction
- Other duties
- Scam offering money to become a company director
- If someone offers you money to be a director of an unknown company
Source and licence
Companies House
AttributionCompanies House, ‘Being a company director’ (updated 11 September 2026), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.017/09/2026