Part 1: Registration of Overseas Entities Removal Section 9: Application for removal
This section explains how an overseas entity can apply to be removed from the ‘live’ list of registered overseas entities. In order to be removed, an entity must, among other things, confirm that it is not, or is no longer, a registered proprietor of a relevant interest in land. It must also update the information previously delivered to the Registrar relating to it and its beneficial owners as at the time of the removal application or confirm that the information held on the register about the entity is up to date (subsections (1) to (9)).
	The confirmation given by an overseas entity in its application for removal under subsection (1)(a) reflects the policy that an overseas entity which is the registered proprietor of certain estates in land is required to be registered in the overseas entity register.
Subsection (10) provides for what is meant by the terms "qualifying estate in land" and "registered" in the context of this section. An overseas entity will be a proprietor of a relevant interest in land if:It is the proprietor of a qualifying estate in England and Wales (see Schedule 4A to the Land Registration Act 2002) and became so in pursuance of an application to register made on or after 1 January 1999;
It is the proprietor of a qualifying estate in Northern Ireland (see Schedule 8A to the Land Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 1970), and became so on or after the day on which that Schedule came into force; or
It is the proprietor of land in Scotland, or the tenant under a lease of land in Scotland, and became so on or after 8 December 2014.