20.—(1) The Scottish Partnerships (Register of People with Significant Control) Regulations 2017 are amended as follows.
(2) After regulation 61 insert—
“61A. Section 1087ZA of the Companies Act 2006 (required particulars available for public inspection for limited period) applies to eligible Scottish partnerships, modified so that it reads as follows—
1087ZA.—(1) This section applies where—
(a)a document is delivered to the registrar by an eligible Scottish partnership under regulation 19 (duty to deliver information to the registrar) of the Scottish partnerships regulations; or
(b)a document is delivered to the registrar by an eligible Scottish partnership under regulation 20 (duty to deliver information about a relevant change) of the Scottish partnerships regulations.
(2) The document, and any record of the information contained in the document, must not be made available by the registrar for public inspection after the expiration of ten years beginning with the date on which the registrar is notified of the dissolution of the eligible Scottish partnership.
(3) Subsection (2) does not affect the availability for public inspection of the same information contained in material derived from another description of document in relation to which no such restriction applies.
(4) For the purposes of this section—
“eligible Scottish partnership” has the meaning given in regulation 2 (interpretation) of the Scottish partnerships regulations.
“the Scottish partnerships regulations” means the Scottish Partnerships (Register of People with Significant Control) Regulations 2017.””
(3) After regulation 67 insert—
“67A. Section 1095A of the Companies Act 2006 (rectification of register to resolve a discrepancy) applies to eligible Scottish partnerships, modified so that it reads as follows—
1095A.—(1) This section applies where—
(a)a discrepancy in information relating to an eligible Scottish partnership is reported to the registrar under regulation 30A(2) of the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017 (requirement to report discrepancies in information about beneficial ownership), and
(b)the registrar determines, having investigated the discrepancy under regulation 30A(5) of those Regulations, that there is a discrepancy.
(2) The registrar may remove material from the register if doing so is necessary to resolve the discrepancy.
(3) In this section “eligible Scottish partnership” has the meaning given in regulation 2 of the Scottish Partnerships (Register of People with Significant Control) Regulations 2017.”.”.