A person may inspect or request a copy of PSC information for a company that has elected to keep it on the public register. That person may ask the company to confirm that all required information has been delivered to the registrar. Failure to respond to such an enquiry is an offence.
4.1 Power of court to order a company to remedy default or delay
There is a power for the court to order rectification of the PSC information on the public register. The court may act where the name of the person has either been included or omitted, as a registrable person or RLE in relation to the company without sufficient cause; or where the company has failed, or has unnecessarily delayed, in notifying the registrar that a person has become, or ceased to be, a registrable person or RLE in relation to the company.
When a company decides it wants to start keeping its own register of PSCs once more («withdrawal») A company must give notice of withdrawal of the election to the registrar. The withdrawal is effective on registration by the registrar. On withdrawal, the company will need to maintain a register of PSC from that point onwards.
The company must enter all required information relating to current matters in its register. However, it doesn’t have to enter historic information from the period covered when the information was held on the public register at Companies House. (For example, the details of a person who has ceased to be a PSC during the election period.)
The company must annotate its PSC register to state that the election has been withdrawn, the date that the withdrawal took effect, and that information relating to the period of the election is available on the central register.
4.2 PSC information on the public register during the period of an election
PSC details, including full date of birth, delivered to the registrar during the period of any election will still be available publicly even when the election has been withdrawn. The information is treated as part of the public register and is maintained as required under the Companies Act 2006. Usual residential addresses will never appear on the public register. Also, if a company has a PSC whose information is protected, none of their details will appear on the public register, regardless of an election.