Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 (c. 10)

Valid from 01/08/2022

PART 1 U.K. Registration of overseas entities

Inspection of the register and protection of information U.K.

24 Disclosure of protected information U.K.

(1) The registrar must not disclose protected date of birth information or protected residential address information about a person unless—

(a) the same information about the person (whether in the same or a different capacity) is made available by the registrar for public inspection as a result of being contained in another description of document in relation to which no restriction under section 22 applies, or

(b) disclosure is permitted by subsection (2).

(2) The registrar may disclose protected date of birth information or residential address information to any person who—

(a) has functions of a public nature, and

(b) is specified for the purposes of this section by regulations made by the Secretary of State.

(3) The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision—

(a) specifying conditions for the disclosure of protected date of birth information or residential address information in accordance with this section, and

(b) providing for the charging of fees.

(4) This section does not apply to protected date of birth information, or protected residential address information, about a person in their capacity as a registrable beneficial owner or managing officer if an application under regulations made under section 25 has been granted in respect of that information and has not been revoked.

(5) In this section—

• “date of birth information” has the meaning given by section 22(3);

• “protected” has the meaning given by section 22(2);

• “residential address information” has the meaning given by section 22(3).

(6) Regulations under this section are subject to the negative resolution procedure.

Commencement Information

I1 S. 24 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 69