{"id":3367,"date":"2021-10-30T17:14:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T15:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.act.com.mt\/?p=3367"},"modified":"2021-10-31T19:25:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T18:25:28","slug":"amendments-to-the-companies-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.act.com.mt\/articles-publications\/amendments-to-the-companies-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Amendments to the Companies Act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
On the 26 October 2021, Maltese Parliament enacted Act LX of 2021, which includes a number of amendments to the Companies Act. Such amendments are aimed at enhancing transparency of information concerning directors and shareholders of companies registered in Malta. The changes impose a number of obligations on both Corporate Service Providers as well as officers of Maltese companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A summary of the main amendments is the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Companies are required to deliver to the Registrar, a copy of such register and any changes thereto, within 14 days after the date on which the change is recorded with the company, accompanied by the relevant statutory form. Every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a penalty of EUR465.87, unless the default is remedied within 1 month from the receipt of a notice of default sent by the Registrar, plus a daily penalty of EUR23.29 for every day until any such default subsists. The register of the residential addresses of the company’s officers and shareholders shall only be used by the Registry for regulatory purposes and shall not be open for public inspection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the 26 October 2021, Maltese Parliament enacted Act LX of 2021, which includes a number of amendments to the Companies Act. Such amendments are aimed at enhancing transparency of information concerning directors and shareholders of companies registered in Malta. The changes impose a number of obligations on both Corporate Service Providers as well as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":10},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.act.com.mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.act.com.mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.act.com.mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.act.com.mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.act.com.mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.act.com.mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.act.com.mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.act.com.mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.act.com.mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.act.com.mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}