Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022

22 Material unavailable for inspection U.K.

(1) The following material must not be made available by the registrar for public inspection—

(a) any date of birth or residential address information protected under subsection (2),

(b) the name or contact details of an individual delivered to the registrar under section 4(1)(d) (application for registration), 7(1)(e) (updating duty) or 9(1)(f) (application for removal),

(c) any required information about a trust delivered to the registrar by virtue of section 4(3), 7(3) or (4) or 9(3) or (4) (required information about trusts),

(d) information that, by virtue of regulations under section 25 (power to protect other information), the registrar must omit from the material on the register that is available for inspection,

(e) any application or other document delivered to the registrar under section 29 (application for rectification of register),

(f) any court order under section 30 (rectification of the register under court order) that the court has directed under section 31 is not to be made available for public inspection, and

(g) any email address, identification code or password deriving from a document delivered for the purpose of authorising or facilitating electronic filing procedures or providing information by telephone.

(2) Date of birth information or residential address information is “protected” if—

(a) it relates to a registrable beneficial owner or managing officer in relation to an overseas entity,

(b) it is contained in a document delivered to the registrar in which date of birth information or residential address information is required to be stated,

(c) in the case of a document having more than one part, it is contained in a part of the document in which date of birth information or residential address information is required to be stated, and

(d) it is not information about a trust delivered to the registrar by virtue of section 4(3), 7(3) or (4) or 9(3) or (4).

(3) In this section—

• “date of birth information” means information as to the day of the month on which an individual was born (but not the month or year);

• “residential address information” means—

  (a)

  information as to the usual residential address of an individual, or

  (b)

  information that the service address of an individual is the individual’s usual residential address.

(4) Nothing in this section obliges the registrar to check documents other than those mentioned in subsection (2)(b), or parts of documents other than those mentioned in subsection (2)(c), to ensure the absence of date of birth information or residential address information.

Commencement Information

I1 S. 22 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 69

I2 S. 22 in force at 1.8.2022 for specified purposes by S.I. 2022/876, reg. 3(g)