Concise Accountancy

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Overseas Entities

Information publicly available on The Register of Overseas Entities

Generally, the information given to Companies House about your overseas entity, beneficial owners, and managing officers is Information publicly available on The Register of Overseas Entities.

Information you must submit to Companies House under the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 is listed below.

Overseas entity information

You must provide the following details of your overseas entity to Companies House.

  • Overseas company name.
  • The country it was incorporated in.
  • Registered office address and correspondence address.
  • Email address – Companies House will use this to send important information and your Overseas Entity ID.
  • Legal form and governing law.
  • Public register it appears on and its registration number (if it has one).

If the overseas entity has disposed of UK property or land since 28 February 2022, you will also need to let Companies House know the following:

  • The deed or title number of the land or property
  • The date that the land or property was disposed of
  • Details of any additional beneficial owners or managing officers at the time the land or property was disposed of.

UK-regulated agent information

  • Your agent’s name.
  • Correspondence address.
  • Email address – we’ll use this if we need more information about the verification checks
  • Supervisory body.
  • Anti-Money Laundering (AML) number, if you have one.

Companies House also wants to know the name of the person with overall responsibility for verification checks.

  • When the verification checks were completed
  • their agent assurance code

The individual beneficial owner information

The details you must provide are listed below.

  • Full name.
  • Date of birth.
  • Nationality.
  • Correspondence address and home address.
  • The date they became a beneficial owner of the overseas entity
  • Nature of control
  • If they’re on the UK Sanctions List
  • If any beneficial owners have their personal information protected at Companies House (or are waiting for the results of an application)

Other legal entity beneficial owner information

You must give the following details to Companies House.

  • Name
  • Registered office address and correspondence address
  • Legal form and governing law
  • Public register it appears on and its registration number (if relevant)
  • The date they became a beneficial owner of the overseas entity
  • Nature of control
  • and specify if they’re on the UK Sanctions List.

The government or public authority beneficial owner information

Companies House requires the following information from you.

  • Name
  • Registered office address and correspondence address
  • Legal form and governing law
  • The date they became a beneficial owner of the overseas entity
  • Nature of control

If no beneficial owners can be identified

If there are no beneficial owners, or you have not identified all your beneficial owners, you must inform the Companies House of this and provide the overseas entity’s managing officers. This is a director, manager, or company secretary of the overseas entity.

An individual managing officer information

For an individual managing officer information, the following information is required by Companies House.

  • Full name (and former names, if relevant)
  • Date of birth
  • Nationality
  • Correspondence address and home address
  • Occupation (this is optional)
  • Roles and responsibilities in relation to the entity

Corporate managing officer information

Whereas, for a corporate managing officer, you must provide the following details to Companies House.

  • Name
  • Registered office address and correspondence address
  • Legal form and governing law
  • Public register it appears on and its registration number (if relevant)
  • Roles and responsibilities in relation to the entity
  • In addition, you must specify the full name and email address of someone we can contact about this managing officer.

Trusts

If any trustees of a trust are registrable beneficial owners, you’ll need to give us information about that trust. This includes details about people or entities that are:

  • current or past beneficial owners
  • beneficiaries
  • settlors
  • grantors
  • interested persons

Information NOT publicly available on the Register of Overseas Entities

However, Companies House will not be available to the public register.

  • Your home addresses
  • full dates of birth – only the month and year will be shown
  • The agent assurance code
  • The date verification checks were completed
  • information about trusts, however, it may be shared with HMRC
  • email addresses

Hence, you can be sure that you will not receive unwanted contacts.

Take note that The Register of Overseas Entities is not the same as the Register for Limited Companies and limited liabilities partnerships (LLP) based in the UK. The Register of Overseas Entities is for companies registered outside the UK who own UK land and property.

The noticeable difference between the Register for Limited Companies and LLP is that they must have a UK-registered office address. In addition, they must deliver confirmation statements and company accounts every year to Companies House.

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