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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 1 March 2021 - onwards

56. Restricted access to beneficial ownership information in central register.

(1) When -

(a) a general partner of an investment limited partnership enters into an occasional transaction with a designated person, or forms a business relationship with a designated person, or

(b) a designated person is taking customer due diligence measures in accordance with Part 4 of the Act of 2010 in relation to an investment limited partnership,

the designated person shall, subject to subsection (6), have a right of access to the following information in the central register that relates to the investment limited partnership:

(i) the name, the month and year of birth and the country of residence and nationality of each beneficial owner of it;

(ii) a statement of the nature and extent of the interest held, or the nature and extent of control exercised, by each such beneficial owner,

and that access shall be afforded in a timely manner.

(2) The information obtained by a designated person by means of the access to the central register afforded under subsection (1) shall not be relied upon exclusively by the designated person to fulfil the designated person's duty to apply customer due diligence measures under Part 4 of the Act of 2010 (which duty shall be fulfilled by using a risk-based approach).