The PSC Register After ECCTA: What Changed in November 2025
If you're searching for a PSC register template, there's something you need to know first: as of 18 November 2025, UK companies no longer keep a local register of people with significant control. That requirement was abolished by the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA). The PSC information is now held centrally at Companies House.
This is one of the most significant — and least understood — changes to flow from the ECCTA reforms. Here's what actually changed, what you still have to do, and why the change matters for how you keep your company records.
What the PSC Register Was
A person with significant control (PSC) is, broadly, someone who:
- Holds more than 25% of the shares, or
- Holds more than 25% of the voting rights, or
- Has the right to appoint or remove a majority of the board, or
- Otherwise exercises significant influence or control over the company.
For most owner-managed companies, the directors who own the shares are the PSCs. Until November 2025, every company had to maintain its own local register of PSCs alongside its registers of directors and secretaries — and also notify Companies House of PSC information.
What Changed on 18 November 2025
ECCTA 2023 (section 51 and Schedule 2) amended the Companies Act 2006 to abolish the duty to maintain local registers of:
- Directors
- Directors' residential addresses
- Secretaries
- People with significant control (PSCs)
From 18 November 2025, that information is held only at Companies House centrally. You no longer keep, update, or make available for inspection a local PSC register.
Important — the register of members is the exception. The one local register UK companies must still keep is the register of members (your shareholders). That duty was not abolished. So the picture after November 2025 is: members' register kept locally; directors, secretaries and PSCs maintained centrally at Companies House.
What You Still Have to Do
The local register is gone, but your obligations around PSC information have, if anything, become more demanding:
Keep Companies House up to date within 14 days. Any change to a PSC's details — a new PSC, someone ceasing to be a PSC, a change to the nature of their control — must be notified to Companies House. The reforms tightened the timeline so the public record stays current.
Confirm PSC information on your confirmation statement. Your annual confirmation statement (CS01) is where you confirm that the PSC information held by Companies House is correct. If it isn't, you update it.
Identity verification. Under the same ECCTA reforms, PSCs (like directors) must verify their identity with Companies House. For new appointments since 18 November 2025 this is required from the outset; existing PSCs must verify before their company's next confirmation statement, with a backstop of 18 November 2026 — see our identity verification guide, or check where you stand with our free identity verification readiness checker.
So Do I Still Need a PSC Register Template?
For the statutory local register: no. You should not be maintaining a separate local PSC register after 18 November 2025, and templates that tell you to are out of date.
What is still genuinely useful is an internal record of who your PSCs are and the dates their details changed — not as a statutory register, but so you have an accurate source of truth to file from and to confirm against at confirmation-statement time. The information that mattered for the old register (name, date of birth, nationality, nature of control, date control began) is still the information Companies House holds.
Common Points of Confusion
"I deleted my PSC register — is that right?" You no longer have to maintain it as a statutory local register. Keep historical records for your own files, but the live statutory obligation is now central filing within 14 days of changes.
"Is the PSC register the same as the register of members?" No. The register of members records your shareholders (still kept locally). The PSC register recorded people with significant control — which overlaps with shareholders but isn't identical. The PSC register is now central; the members' register is not.
"What about my register of directors?" Same as PSCs — the local register of directors was also abolished on 18 November 2025. Directors' information is maintained at Companies House.
How CompanyMinder Will Help
CompanyMinder is being designed to keep your filings aligned with the post-ECCTA rules — tracking who your PSCs are, prompting you when a change needs to reach Companies House inside the 14-day window, and surfacing the PSC information you confirm at confirmation-statement time. The aim is to make the central-filing model as low-effort as the old local register was supposed to be — without the out-of-date templates.
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