Interests with beneficialOwnershipOrControl: true should have a natural person as the interested party

[siwhitehouse]

Given an ownership-or-control-statement where

"statementType": "ownershipOrControlStatement",

and

"interests": [
      {
        ...
        ...
        "beneficialOwnershipOrControl":true,
        ...
        }
      }
    ],

then

 "interestedParty": {
      "describedByPersonStatement": "person-statement-identifier"
    },

must be present.

[odscjames]

Is it possible interestedParty/unspecified might be set instead?

[siwhitehouse]

I think it can, yes. BODS requires that beneficial ownership is a property of a natural person, but allows for that person to be unspecified.

So, I think we can add

or

 "interestedParty": {
      "describedByPersonStatement": "person-statement-identifier"
    },

to the description above.

@ScatteredInk for confirmation.

[ScatteredInk]

From the unspecified description:

When confirmation has been provided that no interested party exists, where ownership and control information does not need to be provided, or where details of ownership and control are unknown, a reason MUST be given. Where an unknown entity is the subject of further ownershipOrControlStatements in the same structure, or where there is a natural person with ownership or control but their name or details are not known or cannot be disclosed for some reason, unspecified should not be used, but instead a reference to a personStatement or entityStatement should be provided but identifying details MAY be left blank.

I think this therefore means that whenever we are able to use beneficialOwnershipOrControl: True, there must be a personStatement as the interestedParty - so the original test is correct. The description of unspecified is very long and confusing - I think this test can help us clarify it.

[odscjames]

Call with @kd-ods

Applies to 0.1 & 0.2 schema version.

Having looked at this, @siwhitehouse has added an or clause but actually that is not needed. If the person is unspecified then there should still be an unknown person statement for them so in the ownershipOrControlStatement there will still be a personId.

[odscjames]

This is now in the library - just need to do a release of the library, go to cove, update deps and add the UI text for the new type to https://github.com/openownership/cove-bods/blob/master/cove_bods/templates/cove_bods/additional_checks_table.html

[odscjames]

Live