On top of having the custom register added to the interface (register's LClass defined for a specific module in Startup).. interface languages matter as well.
Make sure to add the custom register also under:
SetLangMode(LangEnglish,"ENG",0);
I would like to know what BackgroundHALShouldPause does, and how to use it. While it's listed in the HAL Primitives report, it is not used in source code and it doesn't appear in the LMS HAL...