Company dissolution

An application for voluntary striking off can only be made by the company if, at any time in the last 3 months, it has not:
• traded or otherwise carried on business
• changed its name;
• made a disposal for value of property or rights that, immediately before ceasing to trade or otherwise carry on business, it held for the purpose of disposal for gain in the normal course of trading or otherwise carrying on business. For example, a company in business to sell apples could not continue selling apples during that 3 month period but it could sell the truck it once used to deliver the apples or the warehouse where they were stored.

A company cannot apply to be struck off if it is the subject, or proposed subject, of:
• any insolvency proceedings such as liquidation, including where a petition has been presented but has not yet been dealt with).