{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/economic-crime-and-corporate-transparency-act-2023/section-159",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/economic-crime-and-corporate-transparency-act-2023/section-159.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2023/56",
  "legislation_title": "Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/economic-crime-and-corporate-transparency-act-2023",
  "path": "section/159",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "159",
  "heading": "Registration of information about trusts",
  "text": "(1) Paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 to the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 (required information) is amended as follows.\n(2) In sub-paragraph (1), for paragraphs (d) to (f) substitute—\n“(d) the specified details of each beneficiary under the trust;\n(e) the specified details of each settlor or grantor and, in relation to any settlor or grantor that is a legal entity, the specified details of any person who at the time at which the trust is settled—\n(i) is a registrable beneficial owner in relation to that entity (if it is overseas entity), or\n(ii) would be a registrable beneficial owner in relation to the entity if that entity were an overseas entity;\n(f) the specified details of any interested person under the trust and the date on which they became an interested person.”\n(3) After sub-paragraph (1) insert—\n“(1A) In sub-paragraph (1)(d) to (f) “the specified details”—\n(a) in relation to a person who is an individual, means—\n(i) name, date of birth and nationality;\n(ii) usual residential address;\n(iii) a service address;\n(b) in relation to a person that is a legal entity, means—\n(i) name;\n(ii) principal office;\n(iii) a service address;\n(iv) the legal form of the entity and the law by which it is governed;\n(v) any public register in which it is entered and, if applicable, its registration number in that register.”\n(4) In sub-paragraph (2), for “sub-paragraph (1)(c)” substitute “sub-paragraphs (1)(c) and (1A)(a)”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 159 in force at Royal Assent for specified purposes, see s. 219(1)(2)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/56/section/159",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:49:37.581581+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."
}