SI explanatory text
These Regulations amend the Register of Overseas Entities (Delivery, Protection and Trust Services) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/870) (“the 2022 Regulations”) and the Register of Overseas Entities (Protection and Trusts) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/231) (“the 2025 Regulations”) in relation to the register of overseas entities kept by the registrar of companies for England and Wales. These Regulations also amend the Limited Liability Partnerships (Application of Companies Act 2006) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1084) (“the 2009 Regulations”).
Register of Overseas Entities (Annotation) Regulations 2025
SI explanatory text
These Regulations provide the registrar with new powers to annotate the register maintained under section 3 of the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 (c. 10).
Register of Overseas Entities (Protection and Trusts) (Amendment) Regulations 2025
SI explanatory text
These Regulations make provision relating to the register of overseas entities (“the ROE”) kept by the registrar of companies for England and Wales (“the registrar”) in accordance with Part 1 of the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 (c. 10). The provisions relate to the protection of information, the disclosure of trust information and additional required information from overseas entities and registrable beneficial owners which are legal entities.
Register of Overseas Entities (Annotation and Removal) Regulations 2024
SI explanatory text
These Regulations provide the registrar for England and Wales with new powers to annotate the register of overseas entities that the registrar maintains in accordance with the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 (c. 10, “the 2022 Act”), with a view to providing clarity to people who inspect the register. These Regulations also make provision about the removal of material from the register of overseas entities by the registrar using powers contained in section 28 of the 2022 Act, which was substituted by the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (c. 56, “the 2023 Act”) and which replaces narrower provisions permitting administrative removal and rectification of the register on application to the registrar. This mirrors reforms made by the 2023 Act to the registrar’s removal powers under the Companies Act 2006 (c. 46).
Register of Overseas Entities (Verification and Exceptions) (Amendment) Regulations 2023
SI explanatory text
These Regulations make provision relating to the register of overseas entities kept by the registrar of companies for England and Wales (“the registrar”) in accordance with Part 1 of the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 (c. 10) (“the ECTEA”). The provisions relate to exempting pension schemes from certain information disclosure requirements and amending regulations relating to the verification of information.
Register of Overseas Entities (Penalties and Northern Ireland Dispositions) Regulations 2023
SI explanatory text
These Regulations make provision relating to the register of overseas entities (“the register”) kept by the registrar of companies for England and Wales (“the registrar”) in accordance with Part 1 of the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 (c. 10). The provisions relate to financial penalties, appeals, and enforcement.
Register of Overseas Entities (Disclosure and Dispositions) Regulations 2023
SI explanatory text
These Regulations make provision in relation to when protected date of birth and residential address information, as well as the required information about trusts, may be disclosed by the registrar of companies for England and Wales to specified persons who have functions of a public nature.
Register of Overseas Entities (Definition of Foreign Limited Partner, Protection and Rectification) Regulations 2023
SI explanatory text
These Regulations supplement Part 1 of the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 (“the Act”). Part 1 of the Act established a register of overseas entities, which is to include information about an overseas entity’s “registrable beneficial owners”.
Register of Overseas Entities (Verification and Provision of Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2022
SI explanatory text
These Regulations make provision relating to the register of overseas entities (“the register”) kept by the registrar of companies for England and Wales (“the registrar”) in accordance with Part 1 of the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 (c. 10).
Register of Overseas Entities (Verification and Provision of Information) Regulations 2022
SI explanatory text
These Regulations make provision relating to the register of overseas entities (“the register”) kept by the registrar of companies for England and Wales (“the registrar”) in accordance with Part 1 of the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 (c. 10) (“the 2022 Act”).
Register of Overseas Entities (Delivery, Protection and Trust Services) Regulations 2022
SI explanatory text
These Regulations make provision relating to the register of overseas entities (“the register”) kept by the registrar of companies for England and Wales (“the registrar”) in accordance with Part 1 of the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 (c. 10). The provisions relate to the electronic delivery of documents, the protection of information and the definition of registrable beneficial owners.