Order certified copies and certificates from Companies House

You can order:

• a certificate of incorporation with certified facts
• a certified copy of a document held on the register

How to order and costs

You can place an order by:

• visiting the Companies House Service - search for the company, and order from the ‘More’ tab
• calling the Companies House contact centre on 0303 1234 500
• visiting one of our information centres

There are 2 different types of service: standard and same day.

 Standard service

This costs £15. We aim to process these orders within 4 working days. Standard orders are sent by Royal Mail Second Class Delivery.

 Same day service

The same day service costs £50. We can only accept orders made through calling the Companies House contact centre on 0303 1234 500.

You must place your order before 11am. If you order after 11am, your order will not be processed until the next working day. Your order will be delivered by post.

Including additional facts

You can request to include additional certified facts on an incorporation certificate. These are:

• directors’ names, and details such as date of birth or nationality
• secretaries’ names
• registered office address
• the company’s objects
• good standing statement

The good standing wording says that a company has been in continuous, unbroken existence since its incorporation and that no action is currently being taken to strike the company off the register.

We’ll only issue a good standing statement if the company is up to date with its filings. It must be a:

• private limited company with at least one director who’s a natural person
• public limited company with a secretary and at least 2 directors (one must be a natural person)

Legalise a document or certificate

You can get a document legalised with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). In countries who have signed up to the Hague Convention of 1961, this gives the document the same authenticity it has in the UK.

To get a Companies House document legalised by the FCO, it must have the original signature of a British public official. To get a document signed in person by one of our officials, you’ll need to request a certified certificate or certified copy.