Part 1: Registration of Overseas Entities Land ownership and transactions Section 34: Power to require overseas entity to register if it owns certain land
Section 33 allows the Secretary of State, by way of notice, to require an overseas entity to apply for registration in the register of overseas entities if the entity is registered as the proprietor of a relevant interest in land and at the time the notice is given the entity is not registered in the overseas entity register, has not made an application for registration that is pending and is not an exempt overseas entity.
	This power exists in parallel to the general amendments to land registration legislation made by Schedules 3, 4 and 5 to the Act which set out the circumstances in which a non-exempt overseas entity must be registered in the overseas entity register for land ownership purposes.
	This section adopts the definition of what "the proprietor of a relevant interest in land", given by section 9(8). In summary, an overseas entity is a proprietor of a relevant interest in land if it is a registered proprietor of a qualifying estate in England and Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland and became so on or after 1 January 1999 in the case of England and Wales, on or after 8 December 2014 in the case of Scotland or on or after the day on which Schedule 8A to the Land Registration (Northern Ireland) 1970 Act comes into force in the case of Northern Ireland.
	Where a notice is sent under this section, an overseas entity must comply with the notice within the period of six months, unless it is a type of overseas entity that has been exempted from the requirement to register under regulations made under subsection (6).
	An overseas entity that is not exempt and fails to comply with the notice will commit an offence, as will every officer of the entity who is in default. The offence is an either way offence, punishable by way of imprisonment and/or a fine.