Informative Note – Publication of Legislation

The company law framework has been further updated to reflect enhanced digitisation processes and legal certainty. Legal Notice 68 of 2024 has been published in the Gazette on 15th March 2024 (hereinafter referred to as the L.N.).

This L.N. amends five (5) subsidiary legislations to the Companies Act, with the aim of ensuring legal certainty when it comes to cross-border operations of limited liability companies, including the electronic transmission of pre-operation certificates and associated communication on the business registers interconnection system.

The digital tools and processes Directive (Directive (EU) 2019/1151) is being also fully transposed through the L.N. by ensuring that every registrable document submitted to the Registrar is stored in register of commercial partnerships in a machine-readable and searchable format, or as structured data.

A summary of the provisions contained in the L.N. and other informative points may be found in the User Guidelines being published hereon.

Summary of Proposed Amendments – User Guidelines

Dr Geraldine Spiteri Lucas

Registrar & CEO