Part 1: Registration of Overseas Entities Inspection of the register and protection of information Section 25: Power to protect other information
As mentioned above, there may be circumstances in which all of a beneficial owner or managing officer’s required information (over and above the day of birth and usual residential address) should be suppressed from public disclosure. For example, if the activities of the overseas entity meant that the public disclosure of information relating to the individual would put that individual at serious risk of violence or intimidation.
	This section therefore enables the Secretary of State to make regulations which allow an application to be made to the Registrar for a "relevant individual’s" detail to be protected from public inspection on the register (or from disclosure by the Registrar). The regulations would then require the Registrar to make information relating to that individual unavailable for public inspection and to refrain from disclosing that information, except in specified circumstances (subsection (1)). Any such regulations will be subject to the affirmative resolution procedure (subsection (6)).
	A relevant individual is defined by subsection (2) to be a registrable beneficial owner in relation to an overseas entity or a managing officer of an overseas entity.
	Regulations under this section may make provision as to who may make an application, the grounds on which an application can be made and the process by which applications are determined. They may also make provision in respect of the duration of the protection; procedures for its revocation; and the charging of fees by the Registrar in relation to access to such information in prescribed circumstances (subsection (3)).
	Subsection (4) allows for the Registrar to be given a discretion with regards to how an application is to be determined, the duration of, and procedures, for revoking the restrictions on disclosure. It also includes the ability for regulations under section 25 to include a question to be referred to a person other than the Registrar to determine the application or revoke restrictions.
	Regulations under this section may also impose a duty on the Registrar to publish details of how many applications have been made under the regulations and how many of them have been allowed (subsection (5)).
	Subsection (7) clarifies that this section does not affect the disclosure of a person’s details in any other capacity, for example, as a director or member of a UK company.