Regulatory Information

As of 1st January 2007, the Companies Act 1985 extended its provisions on 'business letters' to websites and e-mail. The new requirements overlap with the E-commerce Regulations of 2002, but introduce new requirements for e-mails.

Every company should list its company registration number, place of registration and registered office address on its website as a result of an update to the legislation of 1985. The information, which must be in legible characters, should also appear on order forms and in e-mails. Such information is already required on 'business letters' but the duty is being extended to websites, order forms and electronic documents.

The following is the MINIMUM information that must be on any company's website (from OUT-LAW's guide, The UK's E-commerce Regulations http://www.out-law.com/page-431). We should have a checklist to ensure that our clients are aware of this minimum information that needs to be published on a site. It should also form part of the Analysis process as it could be decided to publish some of this information on each page footer, or in the Contact Us section.

The Dunbartonshire Chamber of Commerce is a VAT registered company.

The registered trading address of the Dumbartonshire Chamber of Commerce (company registration number SC210956) is

Whitecrook Business Centre,
78 Whitecrook Street,
Clydebank G81 1QF

Further contact details can be found here.