The PSC register contains information about individuals that have ultimate control over a company or partnership, including its board of directors and its finances.

1. What Is a PSC Register?
Content:
 What is a personal service company (PSC)?
 What is PSC Register?
 Who is a PSC Companies House?
 Does a limited company have to have a PSC?
 How do you find a personal service company?
 What is a person of significant control in a company?
 Can a PSC remove a director?
 Can you have more than one PSC?
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The following blog will help you in understanding everything about the Personal
Service Company and Person with Significant Control Register (PSC) which is now
mandatory for all the UK companies and LLPs under the law issued on 6 April
2016;
What is a personal service company (PSC)?
A Personal Service Company refers to a limited company, set up for the purpose
of offering service to a single contractor who is the director of the business
company or the one who is a sole shareholder.
The “Personal Service Company”, also features in the context of rules to direct
employment status by the government. It is also called IR35. These rules are
made to ensure that the workers are rightly classified into self-employed or
employed. Also, to ensure the correct amount of employment tax is paid.
However, PSC also means a Person of Significant Control in the business world.
PSC is/are a person/people who has the special right to exercise his/her
significant influence over the company.
What is PSC Register?
Societates Europaeae (SEs), limited liability partnerships (LLPs), and UK companies
have to have a register of People/Person with Significant Control and are called
the PSC register. This is carried out in addition to updating the register of
members, directors and secretaries so on. The PSC Register involves all corporate
entities and people with significant control, must aid transparency for the UK
registered businesses.
Previously, it was possible to register a UK business with shareholders and
nominee directors in place, by hiding the information about the real beneficial
owners from the public record at Companies House.

3. Now in the current PSC register, all the UK registered businesses under the
legislation must have a register with all the details of previously hidden
beneficiaries and controllers.
The PSC register is needed to aid investors with analyzing company structures like
DataGardener as well as helping law enforcement. This particularly helps in
spotting money laundering and to identify and prevent illegal activities that might
be carried out through UK business structures.
FAQs about PSC
Who is a PSC Companies House?
Personal service companies (PSCs) are introduced by HMRC when the IR35
legislation came in 2000. Although there is no legal definition of a PSC, it is
commonly used to describe limited companies that are owned by a single person.
And the Person with Significant Control in such companies is usually a person
owning higher than 25% of rights for voting or the shares.
Does a limited company have to have a PSC?
Identifying the PSC has now become mandatory for all the limited companies and
Limited Liability Leaderships (LLPs). All UK registered Limited Liability
Partnerships (LLPs) and companies must create and maintain an updated register
of People with Significant Control (PSC) along with the information of directors
and members since 6 April 2016. Any individual who acquires significant control
of the company is required to notify Companies House within the time limit given.
How do you find a personal service company?
A general definition of a PSC personal service company within the contracting
sector is defined as any limited company that has typically a single contractor,
director, or the one with most of or all of the company shares.
The contractor’s PSC usually offers professional services to end-users, either
through an agency or directly. The professional services include typical IT or
engineering services and are offered by the contractor, just to reinforce the point;
they are also the director or owner of the business.

4. You should try to identify or approach anyone you think might be a PSC of the
company. If they deny providing their PSC information, they’re committing a
criminal offense.
What is a person of significant control in a company?
A Person with significant control (PSC) is someone who meets at least one of the
conditions of control given below;
PSCs are mostly people who hold;
 Greater than 25% of the company shares
 Greater than 25% of the right to vote in your company
 Holds the special right to designate or fire the majority of the companies’ board of
directors
 In case the PSC holds higher than 25% of shares of the company, the PSC is likely
to have the same amount of voting rights
 You should check the company’s register with shareholders’ information. Your
company’s constitution and articles of association should also contain information
on voting and other rights
 Also, ensure that the PSC register is always kept up to date
Can a PSC remove a director?
IT is important to note that a Person with Significant Control (PSC) of the limited
company or LLPs holds the right to designate or fire most of the
directors/management of a company or LLP. So, yes, a PSC can remove a director
from the company. However, it is obligatory for all the Limited companies to have
a minimum of one natural (human) director. Hence as soon as a director is
removed, another director has to be appointed immediately and Companies
House must be informed. As mentioned above, not updating the PSC register is
considered a criminal offense.
Can you have more than one PSC?
Yes, a company can surely have one or more persons of significant control. The
PSC of a company is anyone who has more than 25% of the company shares or

5. has more than 25% voting rights. If your company has more people with greater
than 25% of the shares or voting rights, all those are considered as the PSC of
your company. There is no rule as such to have only one PSC for one company.
In case you want to register a PSC at Companies House you can post or file PSC
details online at Companies House, using the form PSC01 which is meant for
individual ‘natural person’ PSCs or you can choose to intimate the Companies
House of the corporate entity as an RLE by using the other form PSC02 (for
Registrable Legal Entities).