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2025 No. 651 COMPANIES The Register of Overseas Entities (Annotation) Regulations 2025 Made 2nd June 2025 Laid before Parliament 6th June 2025 Coming into force 30th June 2025 The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the power conferred by section 20(2) of the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022.
Propose a change(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Register of Overseas Entities (Annotation) Regulations 2025. (2) These Regulations come into force on 30th June 2025. (3) These Regulations extend to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Propose a changeThe registrar may place a note in the register where the registrar has reason to believe that an overseas entity has been dissolved, wound up or has otherwise ceased to exist.
Propose a change(1) Paragraph (2) applies where— (a) the registrar has given a person a notice under section 1092A of the Companies Act 2006 (power to require information); and (b) the person has not fully complied with the requirement in the notice before the expiry of the period for compliance. (2) The registrar may place a note in the register stating those facts. (3) The reference in paragraph (1)(b) to the period for compliance with the notice includes such period as extended by the registrar.
Propose a change(1) Paragraph (2) applies where a person purporting to be a relevant person has— (a) purported to verify relevant information on behalf of an overseas entity as contemplated by Part 2 of the 2022 Regulations; (b) complied with regulation 6(3) or 6(4) of the 2022 Regulations, as applicable; (c) been requested by the registrar to provide further information to corroborate that the person is supervised by a supervisory authority, and (d) not responded within the time specified by the registrar in the request. (2) The registrar may place a note in the register recording those facts. (3) In this regulation— “the 2022 Regulations” means the Register of Overseas Entities (Verification and Provision of Information) Regulations 2022; “relevant information” has the meaning given in regulation 5 of the 2022 Regulations; “relevant person” has the meaning given in regulation 3 of the 2022 Regulations; “supervisory authority” has the meaning given in regulation 6(6)(a) of the 2022 Regulations.
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