(1) There is, by virtue of this Regulation, established a register which shall be known as the "Central Register of Beneficial Ownership of Companies and Industrial and Provident Societies" and is in these Regulations referred to as the "central register".

(2) The central register shall be maintained by the Registrar; the information required by this Part to be delivered or submitted to the Registrar shall be entered in that register by the Registrar and that register shall be kept in such form as he or she considers appropriate.

(3) For the purposes of the registration in the central register of the information specified in these Regulations, the Minister shall maintain and administer an office or offices in the State at such places as the Minister thinks fit.

(4) The provision made by paragraph (2) as respects entry of information in the central register is subject to paragraphs (5) and (6) of Regulation 21 (which prohibit disclosure of a PPS number and impose a requirement in relation to the version of such a number that may be stored by the Registrar).