# Appointing New officer as corporate

**URL:** <https://xmlforum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/appointing-new-officer-as-corporate/376>\
**Category:** Confirmation Statement (New Annual Return)\
**Created:** [February 19, 2018, 12:18pm UTC](https://xmlforum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/appointing-new-officer-as-corporate/376 "2018-02-19T12:18:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![mutawer](https://xmlforum.companieshouse.gov.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@mutawer](https://xmlforum.companieshouse.gov.uk/u/mutawer)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 12:18pm UTC](https://xmlforum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/appointing-new-officer-as-corporate/376/1 "2018-02-19T12:18:50Z")

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Hello,  
Am trying to add new officer as corporate, but I keep on getting this error message. OfficerAppointment 9999 fatal Cannot provide person authorising details after the commencement date.  
Any help will be highly appreciated.  
Thanks.

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**Author:** ![snicholas](https://xmlforum.companieshouse.gov.uk/user_avatar/xmlforum.companieshouse.gov.uk/snicholas/32/81_2.png) [@snicholas](https://xmlforum.companieshouse.gov.uk/u/snicholas)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 2:59pm UTC](https://xmlforum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/appointing-new-officer-as-corporate/376/2 "2018-02-20T14:59:33Z")

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I suspect you are supplying a person as authoriser for the corporate appointment (its hard to know without seeing the XML).

If so, please remove the authoriser elements.

SDN

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**Author:** ![mutawer](https://xmlforum.companieshouse.gov.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@mutawer](https://xmlforum.companieshouse.gov.uk/u/mutawer)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 8:30pm UTC](https://xmlforum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/appointing-new-officer-as-corporate/376/3 "2018-02-21T20:30:10Z")

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Thanks Simon for your response. Below is my xml.

```
<govtalkmessage xmlns="http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/CM/envelope" xmlns:dsig="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#" xmlns:gt="http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/schemas/govtalk/core" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemalocation="http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/CM/envelope http://xmlgw.companieshouse.gov.uk/v2-1/schema/Egov_ch-v2-0.xsd">
<envelopeversion>1.0</envelopeversion>
<header>
	<messagedetails>
		<class>OfficerAppointment</class>
		<qualifier>request</qualifier>
		<transactionid>000160</transactionid>
		<gatewaytest>1</gatewaytest>
	</messagedetails>
	<senderdetails>
		<idauthentication>
			<senderid>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX</senderid>
			<authentication>
				<method>clear</method>
				<value>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX</value>
			</authentication>
		</idauthentication>
	</senderdetails>
</header>
<govtalkdetails>
	<keys>
</keys></govtalkdetails>

	<formsubmission xmlns="http://xmlgw.companieshouse.gov.uk/Header" xmlns:bs="http://xmlgw.companieshouse.gov.uk" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemalocation="http://xmlgw.companieshouse.gov.uk/Header http://xmlgw.companieshouse.gov.uk/v2-1/schema/forms/FormSubmission-v2-5.xsd">
		<formheader>
			<companynumber>00000000</companynumber>
			<companytype>EW</companytype>
			<companyname>TEST COMPANY LTD</companyname>
			<companyauthenticationcode>XXXXXX</companyauthenticationcode>
			<packagereference>XXXX</packagereference>
			<formidentifier>OfficerAppointment</formidentifier>
			<submissionnumber>XXXXXX</submissionnumber>
			<contactname>Daniel Johns</contactname>
			<contactnumber>12345678901</contactnumber>
		</formheader>
		<datesigned>2018-01-01</datesigned>
		<form>
			<officerappointment xmlns="http://xmlgw.companieshouse.gov.uk" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemalocation="http://xmlgw.companieshouse.gov.uk http://xmlgw.companieshouse.gov.uk/v1-0/schema/forms/OfficerAppointment-v2-7.xsd">
				<appointmentdate>2018-02-02</appointmentdate>
				<consenttoact>true</consenttoact>
				<director>
					<corporate>
						<forename>Eddy</forename>
						<surname>John jons</surname>
						<corporatename>Corp LTD</corporatename>
						<address>
							<premise>1 Random House</premise>
						   <street>Street 1</street>
						   <thoroughfare>sdfs</thoroughfare>
						   <posttown>London</posttown>
						   <county>dfsd</county>
						   <country>GB-NIR</country>
						   <postcode>N4 2UX</postcode>
						</address>
						<companyidentification>
						   <eea>
							  <placeregistered>France</placeregistered>
							  <registrationnumber>89786878</registrationnumber>
						   </eea>
						</companyidentification>
					</corporate>
				</director>
				
			</officerappointment>
		</form>
	</formsubmission>

```

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**Author:** ![snicholas](https://xmlforum.companieshouse.gov.uk/user_avatar/xmlforum.companieshouse.gov.uk/snicholas/32/81_2.png) [@snicholas](https://xmlforum.companieshouse.gov.uk/u/snicholas)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 8:29am UTC](https://xmlforum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/appointing-new-officer-as-corporate/376/4 "2018-02-22T08:29:46Z")

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> [@mutawer](#):
>
> \<forename\>Eddy\</forename\>  
> \<surname\>John jons\</surname\>

Yes Mutawer,

As I explained, you need to remove these elements.

Eddy  
John jons

SDN

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**Author:** ![mutawer](https://xmlforum.companieshouse.gov.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@mutawer](https://xmlforum.companieshouse.gov.uk/u/mutawer)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 8:52am UTC](https://xmlforum.companieshouse.gov.uk/t/appointing-new-officer-as-corporate/376/5 "2018-02-22T08:52:37Z")

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Thank you Simon, It is sorted.