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The Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017

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42.—(1) This Part applies to UK bodies corporate and relevant trusts.

(2) For the purposes of this Part—

(a)a “UK body corporate” is a body corporate which is incorporated under the law of the United Kingdom or any part of the United Kingdom, and includes an eligible Scottish partnership;

(b)a “relevant trust” is—

(i)a UK trust which is an express trust; F1...

(ii)a non-UK trust which is an express trust; and

(aa)receives income from a source in the United Kingdom; or

(bb)has assets in the United Kingdom,

on which it is liable to pay one or more of the taxes referred to in regulation 45(14); [F2or

(iii)any other non-UK trust which is an express trust, is not a trust listed in Schedule 3A (excluded trusts) and whose trustees (in their capacity as such)—

(aa)acquire an interest in land in the United Kingdom; or

(bb)enter into a business relationship with a relevant person, where at least one of those trustees is resident in the United Kingdom and the trust is not an EEA registered trust;]

(c)a trust is a “UK trust” if—

(i)all the trustees are resident in the United Kingdom; or

(ii)sub-paragraph (d) applies;

(d)this sub-paragraph applies if—

(i)at least one trustee is resident in the United Kingdom, and

(ii)the settlor was resident and domiciled in the United Kingdom at the time when—

(aa)the trust was set up, or

(bb)the settlor added funds to the trust;

(e)a trust is a “non-UK trust” if it is not a UK trust;

(f)a “collective investment scheme” has the meaning given in regulation 12H of the International Tax Compliance Regulations 2015 M1.

(3) A trustee or settlor is resident in the United Kingdom—

(a)in the case of a body corporate, if it is a UK body corporate;

(b)in the case of an individual, if the individual is resident in the United Kingdom for the purposes of one or more of the taxes referred to in regulation 45(14).

[F3(4) For the purposes of this Part, an “EEA registered trust” is a trust whose beneficial ownership information is required, by Article 31.3a of the fourth money laundering directive, to be held in a central register set up by an EEA state other than the United Kingdom.

(5) For the purposes of this Part, the trustees acquire an interest in land in the United Kingdom where at least one of the trustees becomes registered—

(a)in the register of title kept under the Land Registration Act 2002 as the proprietor of—

(i)a freehold estate in land; or

(ii)a leasehold estate in land granted for a term of more than 7 years from the date of the grant;

(b)in the Land Register of Scotland as the proprietor or as the tenant under a lease (“lease” and “proprietor” having the meanings given by section 113(1) of the Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012); or

(c)in the register kept under the Land Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 1970 as the owner of—

(i)a freehold estate in land; or

(ii)a leasehold estate in land granted for a term of more than 21 years from the date of the grant.

(6) For the purposes of this Part—

(a)the trustees have a controlling interest in a third country entity if they meet any of the specified conditions in paragraphs 2 to 5 of Schedule 1A to the Companies Act 2006 (people with significant control over a company) where that Schedule is read with the following modifications—

(i)references to X having or holding a share in or a right in relation to, or exercising significant influence or control over, company Y are to be read as references to the trustees (in their capacity as such) having or holding a share in or a right in relation to, or exercising significant influence or control over, the third country entity;

(ii)for “25%” wherever it occurs in each of paragraphs 2 (ownership of shares), 3 (voting rights), 13 (calculating shareholdings), and 14 (voting rights), read “50%”; and

(b)“third country entity” means a body corporate, partnership or other entity that is governed by the law of a country or territory outside the EEA and (in each case) is a legal person under that law.]

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