9.— Section 21 of the Act of 2004 is amended—

(a) in subsection (3), by the insertion, after paragraph (a), of the following paragraph:

“(ab) require the applicant to furnish particulars of every person who, in a case in which the applicant is a company, is the beneficial owner of more than 5 per cent of the share capital of the company,”,

and

(b) in subsection (4), by the substitution in paragraph (a) of “the shareholders to whom subsection (3)(ab) refers and the directors, and” for “the directors, and”.