🇧🇲 Registry1 Dec 2025
Bermuda's Registrar consults on beneficial ownership rules and sets enforcement for June 2026
In December 2025 Bermuda's Registrar of Companies released draft Beneficial Ownership Regulations and Guidance Notes for industry comment by 30 January 2026, and said it would start enforcing the beneficial ownership regime on 1 June 2026. Legal persons were told to have their registers in order and their information filed with the Registrar before then.
The Beneficial Ownership Act 2025 moved Bermuda's central register to the Registrar of Companies on 3 November 2025. In December the Registrar released the detailed rules for comment.
What happened
- Draft Beneficial Ownership Regulations and Guidance Notes were released to industry, with comments due by 30 January 2026.
- The Registrar said enforcement of the regime would begin on 1 June 2026.
- Before then, legal persons were expected to keep their beneficial ownership registers, file the required information with the Registrar, and hold the documents that evidence how owners were identified and verified.
Who is affected
Bermuda companies and other legal persons, and their corporate service providers.
Later developments
In July 2026 the Registrar deferred enforcement to 31 August 2026. See our coverage.