{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-790D",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-790D.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/46",
  "legislation_title": "Companies Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006",
  "path": "section/790D",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "790D",
  "heading": "Company’s duty to give notices to persons with significant control",
  "text": "(1) A company to which this Part applies must give a notice to a person under this section if—\n(a) the company knows or has cause to believe that the person is a registrable person or a registrable relevant legal entity in relation to the company, but\n(b) the company has not had confirmation of the person’s status as a registrable person or registrable relevant legal entity or has not had confirmation of all of the required particulars of the person (see section 790K).\n(2) The notice must require the person—\n(a) to inform the company whether the person is a registrable person or a registrable relevant legal entity in relation to the company, and\n(b) if they are, to give the company all of the required particulars of the person (see section 790K).\n(3) The notice must require the person to whom it is given to comply with the notice by no later than the end of the period of one month beginning with the day on which it is given.\n(4) The company must give the notice—\n(a) as soon as reasonably practicable after the company becomes subject to the duty to give a notice under this section, and\n(b) in any event before the end of the period of 14 days beginning with the day on which the company becomes so subject.\n(5) A company is not required to give a notice under this section to a person if—\n(a) the application for the registration of the company contained a statement of initial significant control naming the person as someone who would, on the company’s incorporation, become a registrable person or a registrable relevant legal entity in relation to the company, and\n(b) the company has no cause to believe that at any time since its incorporation the person has ceased to be a registrable person or a registrable relevant legal entity in relation to the company.\n(6) The Secretary of State may by regulations make further provision about the giving of notices under this section, including provision about their form and content and the manner in which they must be given.\n(7) Regulations under subsection (6) are subject to negative resolution procedure.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 21A inserted (26.5.2015 for specified purposes, 6.4.2016 except for the insertion of ss. 790M(9)(c), 790W-790ZE and 30.6.2016 so far as not already in force) by Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (c. 26), s. 164(1), Sch. 3 para. 1; S.I. 2015/1329, reg. 3(a); S.I. 2015/2029, regs. 4(a), 5(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Ss. 790CB-790EC substituted for ss. 790D, 790E (26.10.2023 for specified purposes, 18.11.2025 in so far as not already in force) by Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (c. 56), s. 219(1)(2)(b), Sch. 2 para. 11; S.I. 2025/1118, reg. 2(1)(i)(4) (with reg. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 790CB-790I applied (with modifications) (18.11.2025) by S.I. 2009/1804, reg. 31C (as amended by The Limited Liability Partnerships (Application and Modification of Company Law) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1033), regs. 1(3)(c), 8(4) (with regs. 12-16); S.I. 2025/1118, reg. 2(1)(i))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/46/section/790D",
    "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."
}