Yes.
Documents may generally be served on a company by leaving them at, or posting them to, its registered office. If your home is the company’s registered office, formal and legal documents may therefore be delivered there.
There is also a separate risk under existing loans, leases, guarantees and other agreements. These documents may nominate a particular address for notices and may allow notices to continue being sent to that address until a formal change is provided.
Simply changing the company’s registered office with ASIC may not change the address nominated under an existing agreement. If an old home address remains recorded, important notices or demands may continue to be sent there after you move.
Whether a particular document has been validly served depends on the agreement, the type of document and the applicable court rules. However, failing to receive a document does not necessarily mean that it has not been effectively served.
This is one reason a stable professional registered office can be valuable. It reduces the risk of important documents being sent to an outdated residential address each time a director moves.
