Part 1: Registration of Overseas Entities Inspection of the register and protection of information Section 24: Disclosure of protected information
This section sets out what the Registrar may and may not do in respect of "protected" date of birth and residential address information (see section 22). In summary, the Registrar must not disclose protected date of birth information or protected residential address information, except in certain circumstances (subsection (1)).
	These circumstances are:
the same information is already publicly available on the register by virtue of it being included in another document public inspection of which is not restricted under section 22;
disclosure of "protected information" is to any person or body who has functions of a public nature and is specified for the purposes of this section in regulations made by the Secretary of State.
	The Secretary of State may by regulations specify conditions for the disclosure of protected date of birth and residential address information, and may provide for the charging of fees by the Registrar (subsection (3)). Regulations are subject to the negative resolution procedure (subsection (6)).
	Subsection (4) disapplies the provisions in relation to protected date of birth and residential address information (relating to a registrable beneficial owner or managing officer) where a person has made a successful application under section 25 to have their information suppressed. This is because a beneficial owner or managing officer who has made a successful application under section 25 will have all of the information that relates to them in respect of the overseas entity protected from public inspection and disclosure by the Registrar. This would include information about the day of their date of birth and their residential address information.
	Subsection (5) signposts where to find the definitions of the categories of protected information that is otherwise to be made unavailable for public inspection.