Beneficial ownership register

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Beneficial ownership register on companies as structured open data.

A beneficial ownership register should contain details of the natural persons who have an ownership or control stake in registered companies; where "a beneficial owner is a natural person who has the right to some share or enjoyment of a legal entity’s income or assets (ownership) or the right to direct or influence the entity’s activities (control)." (Open Ownership, 2020 https://www.openownership.org/uploads/definitions-briefing.pdf)

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Creator Denis Parfenov
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  • paulfitzpatrick (3 years ago)

    Full response:

    According to the RBO, Regulations 24 and 25 of SI 110/ 2019 provides for two types of access to beneficial ownership in the central register – “unrestricted access” and “restricted access”.

    Consequently, there are two tiers of access to data in the RBO.

    Tier One: unrestricted access to RBO data will be provided to authorized officers of the following organisations: an Garda Síochána the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) Ireland > the Revenue Commissioners the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) the Central Bank of Ireland. the Department of Justice & Equality. the Property Services Regulatory Authority (PSRA). the Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA). the Law Society of Ireland. the General Council of the Bar of Ireland. a designated accountancy body (within the meaning of Part 4 of the Criminal Justice (Money Laundering & Terrorist Financing) Act 2010 and an inspector appointed by the Director of Corporate Enforcement under section 764(1) of the Companies Act 2014. The Garda Síochána, Revenue Commissioners, competent authorities and CAB may disclose the information in the central register to any corresponding competent authority of another Member State (Regulation 24(9), SI 110/2019).

    Tier Two: Restricted access to RBO data is available to: the general public, and designated persons required by Part 4 of the 2010 Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Act to conduct customer due diligence tests (e.g. financial institutions, accountants, auditors, tax advisers, legal professionals and dealers in expensive goods such as houses, cars, jewelry, etc.)

    Members of the public and designated persons can access RBO data through an on-line portal on the RBO website - www.rbo.gov.ie. In the portal there is a facility to search for a company or society and purchase a “RBO Report of Beneficial Owners/Controllers”. The Report will include a list of the current beneficial owners of the company/society and the following data in respect of each one: Forename and Surname. Month and Year of birth. Nationality. Country of residence. A statement of the nature and extent of the beneficial interest held or control exercised. An RBO Report of Beneficial Owners/Controllers costs €2.50 to buy (payment can only be made by credit/debit card).

    SI 110/2019 outlines in relation to fees: The Registrar may require any of the persons referred to in Regulation 25(1) or (3) to pay to the Registrar a fee of such an amount as the Registrar may determine in respect of the access afforded to the central register under Regulation 25(1) or (3).
  • paulfitzpatrick (3 years ago)

    Request sent to the CRO for consideration on 26/08/21. Open Data Team.