{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/register-of-people-with-significant-control-regulations-2016/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/register-of-people-with-significant-control-regulations-2016/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/339",
  "legislation_title": "The Register of People with Significant Control Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/register-of-people-with-significant-control-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Content of a warning notice",
  "text": "A warning notice given under paragraph 1 of Schedule 1B to the Act must—\n(a) specify the date on which the warning notice is given;\n(b) be accompanied by a copy of the notice given under section 790D , 790DA, 790E or 790EA of the Act to which the warning notice relates;\n(c) identify the addressee's relevant interest in the company by reference to the shares or right in question;\n(d) state that the company will consider reasons provided to it as to why the addressee failed to comply with the notice given under section 790D , 790DA, 790E or 790EA of the Act;\n(e) explain the effect of a restrictions notice; and\n(f) state that, by virtue of a restrictions notice, certain acts or failures to act may constitute an offence.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 18(b) substituted (18.11.2025) by The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (Consequential, Incidental and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1037), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 3(3); S.I. 2025/1118, reg. 2(1)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 18(d) substituted (18.11.2025) by The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (Consequential, Incidental and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1037), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 3(3); S.I. 2025/1118, reg. 2(1)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "See paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 1B to the Act for the meaning of “warning notice”."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Regs. 7-47 applied (with modifications) (E.W.S.) (6.4.2016) by The Limited Liability Partnerships (Register of People with Significant Control) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/340), regs. 1(3), 4, Sch. 2 para. 3 (as amended: (26.6.2017) by S.I. 2017/693, regs. 2, 30 (with Sch. Pt. 2); (27.1.2025) by S.I. 2024/1377, regs. 1(2), 11(3); (21.7.2025) by S.I. 2025/874, reg. 9(5); and (18.11.2025) by S.I. 2025/1033, regs. 1(3)(d), 11(3) (with regs. 12-16); S.I. 2025/1118, reg. 2(1)(i))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/339/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:25:43.390351+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."
}