Schedules Schedule 2 – Abolition of certain local registers Part 3 – Register of people with significant control 790LH Information as to whether information has been delivered
Section 790LH is based on section 120 of the Companies Act 2006 (‘Information as to state of register and index’) and provides that a company must inform a person that all of the information required to be delivered to the Registrar has been delivered.
	A company has 14 days, from the date of receiving the request, to comply and failure to do so is a summary offence committed by the company and every officer of the company in default, punishable by a fine.
	Paragraph 17 removes Chapters 3 and 4 of Part 21A of the Companies Act 2006 which will be rendered redundant following the abolition of locally held PSC registers.
	Paragraph 17A amends Schedule 1B (enforcement of disclosure requirements in relation to persons with significant control) to the Companies Act 2006. Paragraphs 13 and 14 of Schedule 1B are substituted for new paragraphs 13, 14, 14A and 14B, each of which contain an offence. The offences in new paragraphs 13 and 14 relate to the failure to provide information, each with a reasonable excuse defence. The offences in new paragraphs 14A and 14B relate to the provision of a statement that is misleading, false or deceptive in a material particular. New paragraph 14A provides a reasonable excuse defence against committing a "basic" offence, whereas new paragraph 14B provides an "aggravated" offence, where a person provides a false statement knowingly.