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Notifications about beneficial ownership compulsory in Jersey
Chris Hamblin
19 January 2021
The new Law applies to: Just before the New Year, the Jersey Financial Services Commission announced: "We will reissue Control of Borrowing Order (COBO) consents for the entities in 2021. The conditions relating to the provision and updating of beneficial owner and controller information will be removed from the reissued consents. "Until the consents are reissued, if an entity complies with the requirements of the new Law for providing and updating beneficial and controller information, it will be deemed to have complied with the conditions of its COBO consent relating to beneficial owner and controller information." Under the new Law there is no requirement to obtain prior consent to a change of beneficial owner. Limited Partnerships registered under the Limited Partnerships (Jersey) Law 1994 are not subject to the new Law. The regulator has also updated its definition of "anti-money-laundering legislation" in a number of its codes of practice as a consequence of legislative amendments and Brexit.