The Registrar of Companies (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2016

Amendment to the Fees Regulations 2012

7.  For Schedule 3 substitute—

Regulation 6

“SCHEDULE 3 THE PERFORMANCE OF FUNCTIONS RELATING TO THE DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION NOT MADE AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION

Interpretation

1.— (1) In this Schedule—

“particulars of the usual residential address of a specified director” or “particulars of the usual residential address of a specified PSC” means the following information—

the house name or number,

the street,

the area,

the post town,

the region,

the country, and

the postcode, or

if appropriate a statement that the usual residential address is the same as a service address;

“the CDA Regulations” means the Companies (Disclosure of Address) Regulations 2009(1);

“the LLP Regulations” have the same meaning given to them in paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations;

“the LLP PSC Regulations” means the Limited Liability Partnerships (Register of People with Significant Control) Regulations 2016(2);

“the OC Regulations” have the same meaning given to them in paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations;

“PSC” means an individual whose particulars are stated in a company’s or limited liability partnership’s PSC register as a registrable person;

“the PSC Regulations” means the Register of People with Significant Control Regulations 2016(3).

2.   In this Schedule—

(a) any reference to a director is also a reference to a member of a limited liability partnership; and

(b) any such reference in respect of an overseas company except in paragraph 4(b) is also a reference to a permanent representative of that company as that expression is used in the OC Regulations.

Protected information

3.   Subject to paragraphs 6 and 7, in respect of the performance of the registrar’s functions in relation to the inspection of the register and the provision of copies of material on the register, where that material is protected information to which section 242(1) of the 2006 Act or that section as applied to limited liability partnerships by regulation 19 of the LLP Regulations or regulation 21(1) of the OC Regulations apply, the following fees are payable—

Matters in relation to which a fee is payable	Amount of fee
(a) for an application by a specified public authority or a credit reference agency under regulations 2 and 3 of the CDA Regulations or those regulations as applied to limited liability partnerships by regulation 19 of the LLP Regulations or regulations 23 and 24 of the OC Regulations for the registrar to determine whether to disclose protected information to that authority or agency;	£54.00
(b) for the provision by means of an email of the particulars of the usual residential address of a specified director on the request of a specified public authority or a credit reference agency.	£5.00

Restricted DOB information

4.   Subject to paragraphs 6 and 7, in respect of the performance of the registrar’s functions in relation to the inspection of the register and the provision of copies of material on the register, where that material is restricted DOB information within section 1087A(1) of the 2006 Act or that section as applied to limited liability partnerships by regulation 66 of the LLP Regulations, the following fees are payable—

Matters in relation to which a fee is payable	Amount of fee
(a) for an application by a specified public authority or a credit reference agency under regulations 2 and 3 of the Companies (Disclosure of Date of Birth Information) Regulations 2015(4) or those regulations as applied to limited liability partnerships by regulation 66 of the LLP Regulations for the registrar to determine whether to disclose restricted DOB information to that authority or agency;	£54.00
(b) for the provision by means of an email of the day of the month on which a specified director was born on the request of a specified public authority or a credit reference agency.	£5.00
(c) for the provision by means of an email of the day of the month on which a specified PSC was born on the request of a specified public authority or a credit reference agency.	£5.00

Section 790ZF(2) information

5.   Subject to paragraphs 6 and 7, in respect of the performance of the registrar’s function in relation to the inspection of the register and the provision of copies of material on the register, where that material is information within section 790ZF(2) of the 2006 Act or that section as applied to limited liability partnerships by regulation 31L of the LLP Regulations, the following fees are payable—

Matters in relation to which a fee is payable	Amount of fee
(a) for an application by a specified public authority or a credit reference agency under regulations 22 and 23 of the PSC Regulations or those regulations as applied to limited liability partnerships by regulation 4 and Schedule 2 of the LLP PSC Regulations for the registrar to determine whether to disclose information within section 790ZF(2) of the 2006 Act to that authority or agency;	£54.00
(b) for the provision by means of an email of the particulars of the usual residential address of a specified PSC on the request of a specified public authority or a credit reference agency.	£5.00

Modifications to paragraphs 3(a), 4(a) and 5(a)

6.— (1) Only one fee is payable under paragraph 3(a) where a specified public authority or a credit reference agency on the same occasion makes an application for the disclosure of protected information in respect of companies, limited liability partnerships and overseas companies (or any combination of them) to which the fee prescribed in paragraph 3(a) is payable.

(2) Only one fee is payable under paragraph 4(a) where a specified public authority or a credit reference agency on the same occasion makes an application for the disclosure of restricted DOB information in respect of companies, limited liability partnerships and overseas companies (or any combination of them) to which the fee prescribed in paragraph 4(a) is payable.

(3) Only one fee is payable under paragraph 5(a) where a specified public authority or a credit reference agency on the same occasion makes an application for the disclosure of information within section 790ZF(2) of the 2006 Act in respect of companies and limited liability partnerships to which the fee prescribed in paragraph 5(a) is payable.

(4) Only one fee is payable under paragraph 3(a), 4(a) or 5(a) where a specified public authority or a credit reference agency on the same occasion makes an application to which the fee prescribed in paragraphs 3(a), 4(a) and 5(a) (or any combination of them) is payable.

(5) The fee prescribed in paragraphs 3(a), 4(a) and 5(a) or any one or more of them is not payable where—

(a) a specified public authority or a credit reference agency makes an application to which the fee in paragraphs 3(a), 4(a) and 5(a) or any one or more of them is payable, and

(b) that authority or agency on an earlier occasion made an application to which the fee prescribed in paragraphs 3(a), 4(a) and 5(a) or any one or more of them was payable.

Modifications to paragraphs 3(b) and 4(b) and paragraphs 4(c) and 5(b)

7.— (1) Only one fee is payable under paragraph 3(b) or 4(b) where—

(a) a specified public authority or a credit reference agency requests information to which the fee prescribed in paragraphs 3(b) and 4(b) is payable,

(b) those requests are made on the same occasion, and

(c) relate to the same specified director.

(2) Only one fee is payable under paragraph 4(c) or 5(b) where—

(a) a specified public authority or a credit reference agency requests information to which the fee prescribed in paragraphs 4(c) and 5(b) is payable,

(b) those requests are made on the same occasion, and

(c) relate to the same specified PSC.”

(1)

S.I. 2009/214 amended by S.I. 2010/2156, 2011/2085, 2012/700, 2013/472, 2014/469, 2014/549, 2014/631 and 2015/842.

(2)

S.I. 2016/340.

(3)

S.I. 2016/339.

(4)

S.I. 2015/1694.