Part 2 - Unexplained Wealth Orders The Responsible Officers Section 45: Imposition of unexplained wealth orders on officers etc of property holder: England and Wales and Northern Ireland
This section inserts a new category of persons who may be specified in a UWO, referred to as "responsible officers".
	The definition of specified responsible officer is given in new section 362A(8), and means that, in a case where the respondent is not an individual, the application may also specify a person who is a responsible officer of the respondent (a "specified responsible officer"); and a person specified may include a person outside the United Kingdom.
	In practice, this means increasing the scope of existing powers to enable UWOs to seek information more easily from persons who are officers of legal entities thought to have control over the asset, and therefore subject to the obligation to provide the information sought by it, even though the responsible officer is not the property holder. This is to ensure that individuals cannot hide behind complex ownership structures.