{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/economic-crime-transparency-and-enforcement-act-2022/schedule-2/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/economic-crime-transparency-and-enforcement-act-2022/schedule-2/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2022/10",
  "legislation_title": "Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/economic-crime-transparency-and-enforcement-act-2022",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Registrable beneficial owners: individuals",
  "text": "(1) An individual is a “registrable beneficial owner” in relation to an overseas entity if the individual —\n(a) is a beneficial owner of the overseas entity by virtue of paragraph 6, and\n(b) is not exempt from being registered (see Part 4).\n(2) An individual is also a “registrable beneficial owner” in relation to an overseas entity if the individual is treated as a beneficial owner of the overseas entity by virtue of paragraph 6A.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 2 renumbered as Sch. 2 para. 2(1) (26.10.2023 for specified purposes, 4.3.2024 in so far as not already in force) by Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (c. 56), ss. 162(3)(a)(i), 219(1)(2)(b); S.I. 2024/269, reg. 2(z50) (with reg. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 2(1)(a) substituted (26.10.2023 for specified purposes, 4.3.2024 in so far as not already in force) by Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (c. 56), ss. 162(3)(a)(ii), 219(1)(2)(b); S.I. 2024/269, reg. 2(z50) (with reg. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 2(2) inserted (26.10.2023 for specified purposes, 4.3.2024 in so far as not already in force) by Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (c. 56), ss. 162(3)(a)(iii), 219(1)(2)(b); S.I. 2024/269, reg. 2(z50) (with reg. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 2 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 69"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 2 in force at 1.8.2022 (except in so far as relating to ss. 7–11 of the Act) by S.I. 2022/876, reg. 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 2 in force in so far as not already in force at 12.10.2022 by S.I. 2022/1039, reg. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/10/schedule/2/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:57:22.170731+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."
}