Register of Persons Holding a Controlled Interest in Land: Information required and creating an entry

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RCI: Information required and creating an entry

This webinar outlines the information which is required for an entry in RCI and what you must do before creating an entry. Once the data is gathered, we cover the steps you must take in creating an account, creating an entry and post submission notifications. We will also show features such as ARN re-use and the copy function. This session will include a live demonstration of these activities in the service.

*Before attending this webinar, if you are not familiar with RCI we would recommend that you watch the ‘Beginners Guide to RCI’ video for an introduction to the Register.

Duration: 1 hour with question and answer session

The purpose of RCI is to hold a record of a person or persons, that can influence decisions concerning ownership of land in Scotland.  RCI will:

• increase public transparency over decision making concerning land
• ensure there can no longer be categories of owner or tenant where, intentionally, or otherwise, control of decision making is obscured

If you are not familiar with RCI, please read the RCI summary page and here is a video that covers the key points of RCI.

Also, don't hesitate to check this demo of the RCI service, showing you how to create an entry, and the RCI guidance pages.

Who needs to register on RCI

The regulations place a responsibility on owners and tenants (tenants with registered or recorded long leases) of land in Scotland to supply information to RCI of their controlling interest from Friday 1 April 2022. Those in scope of the regulations and who need to submit information to RCI will have until 1 April 2024 to do so before penalties come into place.

For the purposes of RCI, the owners and tenants are known as the ‘recorded person’ and those who have significant control or influence over them are known as the ‘associate’.

Who is exempt from RCI

Those who fall into the following categories are subject to other transparency regimes and for this reason cannot be a Recorded Person and do not need to make a submission to RCI. However they can still be an Associate and their details may be required to be submitted to RCI by another Recorded Person who is not exempt.

Further detail on who is exempt from registering can be found on our Knowledge Base site.