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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/register-of-overseas-entities-annotation-regulations-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/651",
  "legislation_title": "The Register of Overseas Entities (Annotation) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/register-of-overseas-entities-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 to annotate the register maintained under section 3 of the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 (c. 10).\nRegulation 2 empowers the registrar to annotate the register where the registrar has reason to believe that an overseas entity has either dissolved, been wound up or has otherwise ceased to exist.\nRegulation 3 makes provision for the registrar to annotate the register where a person has not fully complied with a notice requiring further information given under section 1092A(1) of the Companies Act 2006 (c. 46).\nRegulation 4 makes provision for the registrar to annotate the register where a person has failed to provide sufficient evidence to the registrar that they are supervised by a supervisory authority.\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": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/651/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:15:18.818828+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."
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