C4C6C5C1C3C2Part 35The registrar of companies
Pt. 35 applied (with modifications) (31.12.2020) by The International Accounting Standards and European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/685), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 3; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Pt. 35 modified (8.7.2021) by The Payment and Electronic Money Institution Insolvency Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/716), reg. 2, Sch. 3 para. 5(b) (with reg. 5) (as amended (4.1.2024) by S.I. 2023/1399, regs. 1(2), 4, 21(7)(a))
Pt. 35 modified (21.2.2009) by The Banking Act 2009 (Parts 2 and 3 Consequential Amendments) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/317), art. 6(1)(3)
Pt. 35 applied (with modifications) (8.2.2011) by The Investment Bank Special Administration Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/245), reg. 27, Sch. 6 Pt. 2 para. 5(3)
Pts. 1-39 (except for Pt. 7 and ss. 662-669), 45-47 extended (12.5.2011) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1265), art. 5(1), Sch. 1 para. 2
F1Discrepancy reporting
S. 1110D and cross-heading inserted (26.10.2023 but only so far as it confers a power to make regulations or relates to the exercise of the power, otherwise prosp.) by Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (c. 56), ss. 87(3), 219(1)(2)(b)
1110DPower to require businesses to report discrepancies
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The Secretary of State may by regulations impose requirements on a person who is carrying on business in the United Kingdom (a “relevant person”)—
a
to obtain specified information about a customer (or prospective customer)—
i
before entering into a business relationship with them, or
ii
during a business relationship with them,
b
to identify discrepancies between information so obtained and information made publicly available by the registrar, and
c
to report any discrepancies to the registrar.
2
The regulations may require the relevant person, when reporting discrepancies, to provide such other information as may be required by the regulations (including information about the relevant person).
3
The regulations may provide for reports or other information delivered to the registrar under the regulations to be withheld from public inspection.
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The regulations may create offences in relation to failures to comply with requirements imposed by the regulations.
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The regulations may not provide for an offence created by the regulations to be punishable with imprisonment for a period exceeding—
a
in the case of conviction on indictment, 2 years;
b
in the case of summary conviction, 3 months.
6
In this section “customer”, in relation to a person carrying out estate agency work, includes a purchaser (as well as a seller).
7
Regulations under this section are subject to affirmative resolution procedure.
Pts. 1-39 modified (31.12.2020) by Regulation (EC) No. 2157/2001, Art. AAA1(3) (as inserted by The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1298), regs. 1, 97 (with regs. 140-145) (as amended by S.I. 2020/523, regs. 1(2), 5(a)-(f)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1))