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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-and-limited-liability-partnerships-annotation-regulations-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/573",
  "legislation_title": "The Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships (Annotation) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-and-limited-liability-partnerships-annotation-regulations-2025",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations provide the registrar with new powers and duties to annotate the register maintained under section 1080 of the Companies Act 2006 (c.46) (“the 2006 Act”), with a view to increasing transparency in line with the registrar’s objectives under section 1081A of the 2006 Act and providing clarity to people who inspect the register.\nRegulation 2 empowers the registrar to annotate the register where it is apparent that a person who appears in the register as a director is subject to director disqualification sanctions within the meaning of section 11A(4) of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 (c.46).\nRegulation 3 makes provision for the registrar to annotate the register where a person has not fully complied with the requirements of a notice given under section 1092A of the 2006 Act (power to require information) to provide information.\nRegulation 4 makes provision for the registrar to annotate the register where the registrar is intending to take, or has taken, steps under section 1002A of the 2006 Act (power to strike off company registered on a false basis) to strike a company’s name off the register.\nRegulation 5 makes provision for the registrar to annotate the register to report that a registrable person’s particulars are not shown because of restrictions on disclosure of any of the registrable person’s particulars under regulation 33 of the Register of People with Significant Control Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/339).\nRegulation 7 applies Part 2 of these Regulations to LLPs with modifications.\nA full Impact Assessment has not been prepared for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/573/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:16:06.943822+00:00"
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  "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."
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