{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-790LG",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-790LG.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/46",
  "legislation_title": "Companies Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006",
  "path": "section/790LG",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "790LG",
  "heading": "Notification of someone not becoming person with significant control on incorporation",
  "text": "(1) A company must give a notice to the registrar if it knows or has cause to believe that a person named in the statement under section 12A(1)(a) as a person who would, on the company’s incorporation, become a registrable person or a registrable relevant legal entity did not so become.\n(1A) A notice under subsection (1) must state the date on which the company first knew or had cause to believe the matter mentioned in that subsection.\n(2) A notice under subsection (1) must be given within the period of 14 days beginning with the day on which the company has the knowledge or cause to believe mentioned there.",
  "extent": null,
  "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": "Pt. 21A Ch. 2A inserted (26.10.2023 for specified purposes, 4.3.2024 for the insertion of s. 790LD for specified purposes, 18.11.2025 in force in so far as not already in force, except for the insertion of s. 790LB(2)(3) and s. 790LB(4) for specified purposes) by Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (c. 56), s. 219(1)(2)(b), Sch. 2 para. 18; S.I. 2024/269, reg. 2(z10); S.I. 2025/1118, reg. 2(1)(i)(4) (with reg. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 790LG(1) inserted (18.11.2025) by The Register of People with Significant Control (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1036), regs. 2, 13(2); S.I. 2025/1118, reg. 2(1)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 790LG(1A) inserted (18.11.2025) by The Register of People with Significant Control (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1036), regs. 2, 13(3); S.I. 2025/1118, reg. 2(1)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 790LG(2) inserted (18.11.2025) by The Register of People with Significant Control (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1036), regs. 2, 13(4); S.I. 2025/1118, reg. 2(1)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 790LC-790LH applied (with modifications) (18.11.2025) by S.I. 2009/1804, reg. 31DA (as inserted by The Limited Liability Partnerships (Application and Modification of Company Law) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1033), regs. 1(3)(c), 8(6) (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/790LG",
    "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."
}