These Regulations impose a new duty on the registrar to annotate the register maintained under section 1080 of the Companies Act 2006 (c.46) (“the 2006 Act”) in the circumstances where an individual has verified their identification status, as well as applying annotation duties and powers to unregistered companies. These Regulations also make amendments to various pieces of secondary legislation, which are consequential on the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (c. 56) (“the 2023 Act”).