S.L. 386.19 Art. 3Declaration on beneficial owners. 

(1) With effect from the date of the coming into force of these regulations, and save as otherwise provided therein, there

 shall be delivered to the Registrar, in accordance with article 76 of

 the Act where a company is to be constituted under the Act and 

together with the memorandum and articles, if any, a declaration in the form established in the First Schedule, signed by one of the proposed directors of the company, containing the information referred to in sub-regulation (2) on all the beneficial owners of the company:

Provided that the requirement established in this sub-regulation shall continue to apply to any company where any natural person holds the position of senior managing official.

(2) The information on the beneficial owners of the company to be provided to the Registrar in accordance with sub-regulation (1) shall, in respect of each beneficial owner, consist of the name, date of birth, place of birth, nationality or nationalities, country of residence, residential address, an official identification document number indicating the type of document and country of issue, the name of any persons holding shares as nominee, including a reference of such nominee status, and the nature and extent of the beneficial interest held. A certified true copy of the official identification document for every beneficial owner shall also be submitted to the Registrar.

(3) The Registrar shall not register the memorandum and articles, if any, delivered to him in accordance with article 76 of the Act unless he is satisfied that the requirements of this regulation have been complied with.

(4) The provisions of these regulations shall apply, mutatis to companies continued in Malta in terms of the mutandis,

Continuation of Companies Regulations and to companies registered in

Malta following a cross-border conversion, merger and division in terms of the Cross-border Divisions of Limited Liability Companies

Regulations, the Cross-border Conversions of Limited Liability

Companies Regulations and the Cross-border Mergers of Limited Liability Companies Regulations.