The Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships (Protection and Disclosure of Information and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2024

Amendments to the LLP PSC Regulations

11.—(1) Schedule 2 (application of the PSC Regulations) to the Limited Liability Partnerships (Register of People with Significant Control) Regulations 2016(1) is amended in accordance with this regulation.

(2) In paragraph 1, in regulation 2 of the PSC Regulations (interpretation), as applied to LLPs by that paragraph, omit the definition of “specified public authorities”.

(3) In paragraph 3—

(a) omit regulation 22 of the PSC Regulations (permitted disclosure of usual residential address information by the registrar to specified public authorities), as applied to LLPs by that paragraph;

(b) in regulation 32(1)(a) of the PSC Regulations (revocation of a determination made under regulation 25, 26 or 27), as applied to LLPs by that paragraph, for “section 1112 of the Act (general false statement offence)” substitute “section 1112 (false statements: basic offence) or section 1112A (false statements: aggravated offence) of the Act”;

(c) in regulation 34 of the PSC Regulations (circumstances where the registrar must not use or disclose secured information), as applied to LLPs by that paragraph—

(i) in the heading omit “use or”;

(ii) in paragraph (1) omit “use or”;

(iii) in paragraph (3)—

(aa) in sub-paragraph (a) omit “use or”;

(bb) omit sub-paragraph (b);

(cc) for the full stop at the end of sub-paragraph (c) substitute “, and”;

(dd) after sub-paragraph (c) insert—

“(d) disclose the secured information in accordance with section 1110F of the Act (disclosure by the registrar).”;

(d) omit regulation 35 of the PSC Regulations (fee payable for the disclosure by the registrar of secured information), as applied to LLPs by that paragraph;

(e) omit regulation 35A of the PSC Regulations (fee payable for the disclosure by the registrar of information to a credit institution or a financial institution), as applied to LLPs by that paragraph.

(4) In this regulation, “the PSC Regulations” means the Register of People with Significant Control Regulations 2016(2).

(1)

S.I. 2016/340.

(2)

S.I. 2016/339.