Business Law and Corporate Law

The Maltese government issued Legal Notice 133 of 2025 to bring the Trusts and Trustees Act (Register of Beneficial Owners) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 into force on 11 July, which expand the scope of beneficial ownership reporting and tighten compliance requirements for trustees.

The Hague Convention of 1 July 1985 establishes that the law chosen in the trust deed governs the validity of the trust, its interpretation, its effects, and the administration of the trust.

By virtue of the Trusts and Trustees Act (Register of Beneficial Owners) (Amendment) Regulations, 2025 (Legal Notice 133 of 2025), a number of amendments have been made to the Trusts and Trustees Act (Register Of Beneficial Owners) Regulations (the "Regulations") in order to transpose Article 74 of Directive.

A Cyprus International Trust, under the International Trusts Law, 69(I)/1992 as amended by Law 20(I)/2012, is a trust.

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