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Roll on the throttle: The role of government policies in Australia's race to net zero
As we discussed in our recent article, 2024 was expected to be a make or break year for the global hydrogen industry.
Global | Publication | August 2018
The government published a long-heralded draft Registration of Overseas Entities Bill on July 23, 2018.
The purpose of the Bill is to “prevent and combat the use of land in the UK for money laundering purposes by increasing the transparency of beneficial ownership information relating to overseas entities that own land in the UK”. It seeks to achieve this by establishing a new register of the beneficial owners and controllers of such entities – the first of its kind. The new register will be held by Companies House and the current intention is that it will go live by 2021.
In broad terms the Bill provides that
Comments on the draft Bill are invited by September 17, 2018 but it is unlikely that the fundamentals will change. Overseas entities need to be aware that compliance may be onerous, not to say time-consuming, particularly for those with sophisticated ownership structures. There will also be additional levels of due diligence for those proposing to enter into a land transaction with an overseas entity.
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As we discussed in our recent article, 2024 was expected to be a make or break year for the global hydrogen industry.
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This briefing is an updated version of our briefing first published in December 2017 and sets out some practical pointers for employers who wish to make changes to a pension scheme which may fall within the statutory definition of a “listed change”.
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