Guidance

Register of Overseas Entities: submitting affected applications

Guidance for submitting an affected application.

• From: HM Land Registry
• Published: 21 September 2022
• Last updated: 27 April 2023 — See all updates

Applies to England and Wales

If you are lodging an application that involves an overseas entity and includes a disposition that is caught by the Economic Crime (Transparency & Enforcement) Act 2022 you will need to provide either:

• the overseas entity ID supplied by Companies House
• evidence of exception or exemption using form OE1 or OE2

You should ensure you are using the latest version of any application or dispositionary form, which will allow you to provide an overseas entity ID in the form itself.

Digital Registration Service (DRS) customers

If you are not lodging a dispositionary form and need to provide an overseas entity ID then you should submit this in a covering letter alongside your application.

Adding an OE ID to the register as a standalone application.

To add an overseas entity ID to the register as a standalone application through the DRS, you will need to select ‘change of name’ application. You will need to lodge confirmation of the update required as ‘correspondence’ and a copy of the OE01 provided by Companies House as ‘evidence’. You can do this using DRS for up to 25 titles.

Please continue to use the legacy electronic Document Registration Service for applications with 26 to 50 titles.

For more than 50 titles, you will need to contact the Bulk Application Team directly. They will then arrange for someone to phone you to explain the procedures involved and the best way of preparing and lodging your application.

Business Gateway customers

If you are not lodging a dispositionary form and need to provide an overseas entity ID, or to add an overseas entity ID to the register as a standalone application, then you should either submit this in a covering letter with your application or use the existing ‘additional information’ field in the submission schema.

Published 21 September 2022
Last updated 27 April 2023 + show all updates

1. 27 April 2023

   Guidance has been added to provide guidance on how OE IDs can be added to the register as standalone applications.

2. 21 September 2022

   First published.