These Regulations appoint 1st December 2020 as the day on which the Value Added Tax (Disclosure of Information Relating to VAT Registration) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1228) (“the 2018 Regulations”) come into force. The 2018 Regulations make provision allowing HMRC Commissioners to disclose information to a person who makes an enquiry as to whether a number is a VAT registration number allocated to a person registered in the United Kingdom’s VAT register.