# United Kingdom registered companies

## Source
- **URL**: https://download.companieshouse.gov.uk/en_output.html
- **Institution**: Companies House, United Kingdom
- **Data**: A company registration with published category and SIC attributes.
- **Coverage**: Corporate bodies in the Companies House basic-data product.

## How it works
A company registration with published category and SIC attributes.

Lookup by company-number as a string, preserving leading zeros. Accepted syntax and normalization are defined by the contract below.
Pattern: `^[A-Z0-9]{8}$`. Normalization: `none declared`.

Cardinality: one. Update schedule: monthly.
Import time is not government observation time. No record observation field is declared; do not substitute incorporation or registration dates.

## Fields
| Field | Transport type | Meaning | Unit / format | Empty values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| legal_name | string | Registered name published by the authority. | not applicable | Not supplied. Do not interpret as zero or a negative finding. |
| status | string | Publisher status; not a Latinfo risk rating. | not applicable | Not supplied. Do not interpret as zero or a negative finding. |
| company_category | string | Companies House corporate-body category. | not applicable | Not supplied. Do not interpret as zero or a negative finding. |
| incorporation_date | string | Published incorporation date date. | DD/MM/YYYY | Not supplied. Do not interpret as zero or a negative finding. |
| sic_code_1 | string | First SIC code and description as published. | not applicable | Not supplied. Do not interpret as zero or a negative finding. |
| sic_code_2 | string | Second SIC code and description, if supplied. | not applicable | Not supplied. Do not interpret as zero or a negative finding. |
| sic_code_3 | string | Third SIC code and description, if supplied. | not applicable | Not supplied. Do not interpret as zero or a negative finding. |
| sic_code_4 | string | Fourth SIC code and description, if supplied. | not applicable | Not supplied. Do not interpret as zero or a negative finding. |

## Known issues
- This dataset does not supply officers, shareholders or beneficial owners.
- Missing records do not establish clearance. Unavailable sources must be reported separately.

## Attribution and reuse
Source: Companies House, United Kingdom. https://download.companieshouse.gov.uk/en_output.html.
License: No source-specific reuse license verified in this contract. (not_verified). No reuse license verified; public access does not establish unrestricted reuse rights.

## Value domains



## Contract
- Contract fingerprint: `96db7d02a93828b364971e549f9c8187ce3deee1c40671a63918c5fa7fcc220c`.
- Schemas and example requests: https://latinfo.dev/reference/openapi.json
- Live availability and freshness: https://api.latinfo.dev/sources