{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/register-of-people-with-significant-control-regulations-2016/regulation-45",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/register-of-people-with-significant-control-regulations-2016/regulation-45.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/45",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "45",
  "heading": "Protection by a company of secured information",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a company must not use or disclose secured information relating to a person (“S”) if—\n(a) in relation to that information an application has been made under regulation 36, 37 or 38; and\n(b) the company has not received notification under regulation 40(2), 40(3), 42(3), 43(2), 44(6) or 46(5)(b).\n(2) The company may use or disclose secured information relating to S—\n(a) for communicating with S;\n(b) in order to comply with a requirement of the Act as to particulars to be sent to the registrar; ...\n(c) where S has given consent for the company to use or disclose secured information relating to S ; or\n(d) to the extent necessary in order to comply with regulation 43 (corporate bodies: obligations) of the Money Laundering Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017.\n(3) For the purposes of this regulation, an application has been made—\n(a) under regulation 36(1)(a) or 36(1)(c) when the applicant has informed the company under regulation 36(4) that the applicant has made an application;\n(b) under regulation 36(1)(b) when the company has received the particular required by section 790K(1)(i) of the Act in relation to that individual;\n(c) under regulation 37 when the company sends the application to the registrar; or\n(d) under regulation 38 when the subscriber to the memorandum sends an application to the registrar.\n(4) Where a company is prohibited under paragraph (1) from using or disclosing any secured information, the company's PSC register is to be treated as not including that information for the purposes of sections 790N(1), 790O(1) and 790O(2) of the Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 45(2)(b) omitted (26.6.2017) by virtue of The Information about People with Significant Control (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/693), regs. 2, 18(2)(a) (with Sch. Pt. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 45(2)(d) and word inserted (26.6.2017) by The Information about People with Significant Control (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/693), regs. 2, 18(2)(b) (with Sch. Pt. 1)"
    },
    {
      "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))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Reg. 45 modified (30.6.2016) by The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Register of People with Significant Control) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/375), regs. 1(2), 9 (as amended (31.12.2020) by The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1298), regs. 1, 95); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/339/regulation/45",
    "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."
}