(1) There is, by virtue of this section, established a register which shall be known as the 'Central Register of Beneficial Ownership of Common Contractual Funds' and is in this Part referred to as the 'central register'.

(2) The central register shall be maintained by the Registrar; the information required by sections 18M to 18P to be delivered or submitted to the Registrar shall be entered in that register by the Registrar and that register shall be kept in such form as the Registrar considers appropriate.

(3) The provision made by subsection (2) as respects entry of information in the central register is subject to subsection (5) of section 18N (which prohibits disclosure of a PPS number).