The Isle of Man Companies Registry maintains a unique numeric identifier for each company, which persists even if the company transitions between different legislative regimes like the Companies Acts 1931–2004 and the Companies Act 2006. This registry operates independently from the UK's Companies House and the EU's Business Registers Interconnection System (BRIS), with access managed directly by the Manx registry under the Department for Enterprise. While the public registry provides core corporate facts such as company number, legal name, status, incorporation date, and registered office, detailed officer information and filing histories require separate queries. Notably, beneficial ownership data, mandated by the Beneficial Ownership Act 2017, is not publicly accessible and is only available to competent authorities and certain regulated entities, posing challenges for sanctions analysis that relies on the OFAC 50 percent rule. AI
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- Beneficial Ownership Act 2017
- Business Registers Interconnection System
- Companies Act 2006
- Companies Acts 1931–2004
- Companies House
- Department for Enterprise
- EU
- Isle of Man Companies Registry
- OFAC
- UK
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