{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-790LM",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-790LM.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/46",
  "legislation_title": "Companies Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006",
  "path": "section/790LM",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "790LM",
  "heading": "Initial identity verification: registrable persons",
  "text": "(1) This section applies in the following cases.\nCase 1 is where—\n(a)a company is incorporated in pursuance of an application for registration containing a statement under section 12A(1)(a) naming a person as someone who will, on the company’s incorporation, become a registrable person (“the registrable person”),\n(b)the application does not include a statement under section 12B(2) in respect of the registrable person or it appears to the registrar that the statement is false, and\n(c)the company has not given a notice under section 790LG(1) in respect of the person.\nCase 2 is where—\n(a)the registrar is notified under section 790LF that a person has become a registrable person in relation to a company (“the registrable person”), and\n(b)the notice does not include a statement under section 790LB(1) or it appears to the registrar that the statement is false.\n(2) The registrar must direct the registrable person to deliver to the registrar, within the period of 14 days beginning with the date of the direction, a statement confirming that the person’s identity is verified (see section 1110A).\n(3) The registrar may by further direction extend that period by up to 14 days at a time.\n(4) A direction under this section must be in writing.\n(5) A direction given to a person under this section lapses if notice is later given under section 790LG(1) in respect of that person.\n(6) In this section “registrable person” does not include a person mentioned in section 790C(12)(a) to (d).",
  "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": "Ss. 790LM-790LT and cross-heading inserted (26.10.2023 for specified purposes, 18.11.2025 except for the insertion of ss. 790LO, 790LP, 790LR, 790LS and s. 790LT for specified purposes) by Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (c. 56), ss. 64(3), 219(1)(2)(b); S.I. 2025/1118, reg. 2(1)(k)(5) (with reg. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 790LJ-790LT applied (with modifications) (18.11.2025) by S.I. 2009/2436, Sch. 1 para. 12B (as substituted by The Companies Authorised to Register, Unregistered Companies and Overseas Companies (Application of Company Law) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/761), regs. 1(4), 3(6) (with regs. 5, 6))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 790LM applied (with modifications) (18.11.2025) by S.I. 2009/1804, reg. 31DB (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/790LM",
    "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."
}