🇬🇠Registry1 Jul 2025
Ghana gives older companies until 30 October 2025 to file beneficial ownership details
Ghana's Office of the Registrar of Companies directed on 1 July 2025 that companies existing before it began collecting beneficial ownership information electronically in January 2020 must file those details by 30 October 2025. The duty covers companies limited by shares or guarantee, unlimited companies and external companies, under the Companies Act 2019 (Act 992). Daily penalties were announced for late filers.
Sections 13(2)(m) and 373(1) of the Companies Act 2019 (Act 992) require companies to give the Registrar their beneficial ownership information.
What was announced
- Companies registered before electronic collection of beneficial ownership details began in January 2020 had to file them by 30 October 2025.
- It applies to private and public companies limited by shares or by guarantee, unlimited liability companies and external companies.
- The Office announced a daily administrative penalty for companies that missed the deadline. Giving false information can lead to a fine or up to two years' imprisonment.
- A reminder followed on 15 October 2025.
Later developments
The Office began enforcing penalties on 12 January 2026. See our coverage.
Who is affected
Ghanaian companies and external companies registered before 2020, and their company secretaries.