Your new company is required to have a 'constitution' accepted by the 'board of directors'. When you receive your company formation pack we will have completed the registration procedures, but you need to take the next formal steps.

A board of directors is expected to hold meetings and to 'minute' the proceedings of those meetings. "First minutes' cover the acceptance of the fundamental arrangements under which a company is set up. This includes formal acceptance of the Memorandum & Articles, appointment of Officers, approval of the Registered Office address and, if relevant, resignation and replacement of Officers who served temporarily during setting-up process.

When you order 'first minutes' from Duport Associates, we create the 'minute' for you, signed and dated by us on your behalf.

At the same time, we give you a model (called 'second minutes') that you can use to create an appropriate 'minute' covering the next formal step that you must take after becoming directors.