{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-protection-and-disclosure-of-personal-information-amendment-regulations-2025/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-protection-and-disclosure-of-personal-information-amendment-regulations-2025/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348271904",
  "legislation_title": "The Protection and Disclosure of Personal Information (Amendment) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-protection-and-disclosure-of-personal-information-amendment-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Application for protection of personal information",
  "text": "(1) Where there is information of the type mentioned in paragraph (2) on the register in respect of an individual, the individual may apply for the registrar to make that information unavailable for public inspection.\n(2) The information is—\n(a) day of date of birth,\n(b) signature, and\n(c) in the case of an individual who is or was—\n(i) a director of a company, or\n(ii) a member of a supervisory organ, management organ or administrative organ of a UK Societas,\nthat individual’s business occupation.\n(3) An individual may not make an application that, on registration, would cause the registrar, acting in accordance with regulation 4(1), to make any part of a copy of an order imposing a charge, instrument, deed or debenture delivered under—\n(a) Part 25 of the Companies Act 2006 (company charges),\n(b) Part 12 of the Companies Act 1985 (registration of charges), or\n(c) Part 13 of the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (registration of charges),\nunavailable for public inspection.\n(4) An individual may only make an application in respect of the information in paragraph (2)(c) where that information—\n(a) is contained in a document delivered to the registrar in which such information is required to be stated, and\n(b) in the case of a document having more than one part, is contained in a part of the document in which such information is required to be stated.\n(5) For the purposes of this regulation—\n“signature” does not include a printed name;\n“UK Societas” has the meaning given by regulation 3(1) of the European Public Limited-Liability Company Regulations 2004.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 1080(2) of the Companies Act 2006 for the meaning of “the register” and section 1060(3) of that Act for the meaning of “registrar of companies”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1985 c. 6."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/1032 (N.I. 6)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 2004/2326; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2008/948, 2009/2400 and 2018/1298."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348271904/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:39:12.062698+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."
}