Part 1: Registration of Overseas Entities Correction or removal of material on the register Section 31: Court powers on ordering removal of material from the register
Where the Registrar removes material from the register, it is usually required by section 20 to place a note on the register recording that material was removed, under what power and the date of the removal. However, subsection (2) of this section provides that a court may direct that any note placed on the register that is related to the material that is removed pursuant to a court order given under section 29 must also be removed from the register. Similarly, the court may also direct that no note is made on the register as a result of the order under this section. Before making any such direction, the court must be satisfied that the presence on the register of the note or the availability for public inspection of the court’s order might damage the overseas entity and that the overseas entity’s interest in non-disclosure outweighs the interest of other persons in disclosure (subsection (5)).