Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023

137 Material not available for public inspection U.K.

(1) After section 16 of the Limited Partnerships Act 1907 (inserted by section 136 of this Act) insert—

“16A Material not available for public inspection

(1) The registrar must not make the following material available for public inspection, so far as it forms part of the register of limited partnerships—

(a) any application or other document delivered to the registrar under section 8G, 8Q or 8W (changes of addresses by registrar) other than an order or direction of the court;

(b) so much of any document delivered to the registrar as is required to contain—

(i) a limited partnership’s registered email address,

(ii) the email address of the named contact for a general partner’s managing officer,

(iii) protected date of birth information, or

(iv) protected residential address information;

(c) so much of any statement delivered to the registrar under any of the following provisions as is required to confirm that an individual is an individual whose identity is verified (within the meaning of section 1110A of the Companies Act 2006)—

• section 8A(1F)(b);

• section 8L(3)(a) or (b);

• section 8R(7)(b);

(d) any statement delivered to the registrar by virtue of section 33(3) (documents to be delivered by authorised corporate service providers);

(e) any statement or other document delivered to the registrar by virtue of section 1067A of the Companies Act 2006 (delivery of documents: identity verification and authorised corporate service providers);

(f) any statement made in accordance with regulations made by virtue of section 1082(2)(c) of the Companies Act 2006 (statement of unique identifier);

(g) any document provided to the registrar under section 1092A of the Companies Act 2006 (power to require further information);

(h) any record of the information contained in a document or part of a document that is unavailable because of any of the previous paragraphs of this subsection;

(i) any e-mail 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;

(j) any other material excluded from public inspection by or under any other enactment.

(2) The registrar need not retain material to which subsection (1) applies for longer than appears to the registrar reasonably necessary for the purposes for which the material was delivered to the registrar.

(3) In this section—

• “protected date of birth information” means information as to the day of the month (but not the month or year) on which—

  (a)

  a partner was born, or

  (b)

  a general partner’s registered officer was born;

• “protected residential address information” means information as to the usual residential address of—

  (a)

  a partner,

  (b)

  a general partner’s registered officer, or

  (c)

  the named contact for a general partner’s managing officer.

(4) Information about a partner, registered officer or named contact does not cease to be protected date of birth information or protected residential address information when they cease to be a partner, registered officer or named contact.

(5) The restrictions on making information available for public inspection imposed by subsection (1)(h) and (i) do not affect the availability for public inspection of the same information contained in material derived from another description of document (or part of a document) in relation to which the relevant restriction does not apply.

(6) In this section “registered officer” and “named contact” have the meanings given by section 8K(4) and (5).”

(2) In section 1083 of the Companies Act 2006 (preservation of original documents), in subsection (1), for the second sentence substitute—

“This is subject to—

(a) section 1087(3) (extent of obligation to retain material not available for public inspection);

(b) section 16A(2) of the Limited Partnerships Act 1907 (extent of obligation to retain material not available for public inspection);

(c) section 22(5) of the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 (extent of obligation to retain material not available for public inspection).”

Commencement Information

I1 S. 137 in force at Royal Assent for specified purposes, see s. 219(1)(2)(b)