The Companies Act, Ch. 81:01, stipulates that a company must, within fifteen (15) days of any change of the address of its registered office, notify the Registrar of such change.
The registered office address is the official address of a company and must be a full/complete address of a physical location within Trinidad and Tobago, e.g., 304 Robertson Street, Woodbrook 110702, Trinidad and Tobago. A registered office address cannot be a post office box or post office bag.
The registered office address is the formal address to which important correspondence must be sent and service of legal process (e.g. writs, etc.) effected. It is also the address where important company documents such as the Articles of Incorporation, the bye-laws, minutes of company meetings, Registers of Directors and Secretaries, are required to be kept.
To file a Change of Registered Office Address you are now required to:
To file a change of address, complete the following steps:
To do so, you must electronically submit a Notice of Change of Registered Office Address. To file your notice:
Fee: $40.00
Once the payment is processed, each director and secretary will receive confirmation, by email, that the notice was successfully received. Your copy of the completed Notice of Change of Registered Office Address will be included. To complete the filing:
If a person or a company fails to deliver a Notice of Change of Registered Office Address within the stipulated time, the Registrar of Companies is entitled to collect from the person or company a penalty of three hundred TT dollars ($300.00) for every month, or part thereof, that the notice is “late” in being filed (section 516 of the Companies Act, as amended by section 16(e) of the Finance Act No. 2 of 2013). Unless there is an amnesty in effect, waiving the penalty for late filing.
