{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-1087A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-1087A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/46",
  "legislation_title": "Companies Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006",
  "path": "section/1087A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1087A",
  "heading": "Protection of date of birth information",
  "text": "(1) The registrar must not make available for public inspection—\n(a) so much of any document delivered to the registrar as is required to contain relevant date of birth information;\n(b) any record of the information contained in part of a document that is unavailable because of paragraph (a).\n(2) This section has limited application in relation to documents delivered before it comes fully into force: see section 1087B.\n(3) “Relevant date of birth information” means—\n(a) information as to the day of the month (but not the month or year) on which a director (or proposed director) was born;\n(b) information as to the day of the month (but not the month or year) on which a registrable person in relation to the company was born.\n(4) Information about a director (or proposed director) or registrable person does not cease to be relevant date of birth information when they cease to be a director (or proposed director) or registrable person.\n(5) Subsection (1)(b) does not affect the availability for public inspection of the same information contained in material derived from a part of a document that was not required to contain the information.\n(6) In this section “registrable person”, in relation to a company, has the meaning given by section 790C(4).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 1087A-1087C substituted (26.10.2023 for specified purposes, 4.3.2024 in so far as not already in force) by Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (c. 56), ss. 52(3), 219(1)(2)(b); S.I. 2024/269, reg. 2(z11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 1087A applied (with modifications) (26.6.2017) by The Scottish Partnerships (Register of People with Significant Control) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/694), regs. 1(1), 62"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Ss. 1085-1091: power to apply (with or without modifications) conferred (31.1.2019) by Technical and Further Education Act 2017 (c. 19), ss. 8, 47(2); S.I. 2018/1161, reg. 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Ss. 1085-1091 applied (with modifications) (1.10.2009) by The Limited Liability Partnerships (Application of Companies Act 2006) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1804), regs. 2, 66 (with reg. 60) (as amended: (6.4.2013) by S.I. 2013/618, reg. 4 (with reg. 8(4)); (10.10.2015) by S.I. 2015/1695, regs. 1, 6(2)(3); (6.4.2016) by S.I. 2016/423, regs. 1(1), 20; (6.4.2016) by S.I. 2016/340, reg. 1(3), Sch. 3 para. 5; (30.6.2016) by S.I. 2016/599, reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 7; (10.1.2020) by S.I. 2019/1511, regs. 1(2), 17(3); (4.3.2024) by S.I. 2024/234, regs. 1(2), 30; S.I. 2024/269, reg. 2(a); (27.1.2025) by S.I. 2024/1377, regs. 1(2), 10; and (21.7.2025) by S.I. 2025/874, regs. 1(2)(a), 6(2)-(6))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Ss. 1087A-1087C applied (21.3.2024) by S.I. 2009/2436, Sch. 1 para. 20(1)(ca) (as substituted by The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (Consequential, Supplementary and Incidental Provisions) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/410), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 5(d)(ii))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/46/section/1087A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:13:40.060156+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}