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

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

The Companies (Disclosure of Address) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/214) (“the 2009 Regulations”) make provision for applications to the registrar of companies under section 1088 of the Companies Act 2006 (c. 46) (“the 2006 Act”) for addresses on the register to be made unavailable for public inspection. Part 2 of these Regulations amends provisions of the 2009 Regulations.

Regulation 3 introduces additional circumstances where an individual whose usual residential address is on the register may make an application for that address to be made unavailable for public inspection and makes provision for the registrar to disclose a usual residential address which has been made unavailable for public inspection in certain circumstances relating to the restoration of a dissolved company.

The Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2000 (c. 12) provides for the creation of limited liability partnerships (“LLPs”) and for the making of regulations concerning them.

Part 3 of these Regulations amends provisions of the Limited Liability Partnerships (Application of Companies Act 2006) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1804), including to apply the provisions of regulation 3 to LLPs with modifications.

Part 4 amends the Limited Liability Partnerships (Register of People with Significant Control) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/340) to make changes which are consequential on the reform of certain company law provisions by the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (c. 56).

A full Impact Assessment has not been prepared for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.