All provisions · Beneficial Ownership Regulations 2020 · Determination of beneficial owners
r.5 Voting rights
(1) For the purposes of these regulations, voting rights refers to the rights conferred on shareholders in respect of their shares or, in the case of a legal person not having a share capital, on members or officers, to vote at general meetings of the legal person or legal arrangement on all or substantially all matters.
(2) In relation to a legal person or legal arrangement that does not have general meetings at which matters are decided by the exercise of voting rights —
(a) exercising voting rights means to exercise rights in relation to a person or persons that are equivalent to those of a person entitled to exercise voting rights in a company; and
(b) exercising ten percent or more of the voting rights in the legal person or legal arrangement means to exercise the right under the constitutional document of the legal person or legal arrangement to effect changes to the overall policy of the legal person or legal arrangement.
(2) In relation to a legal person or legal arrangement that does not have general meetings at which matters are decided by the exercise of voting rights —
(a) exercising voting rights means to exercise rights in relation to a person or persons that are equivalent to those of a person entitled to exercise voting rights in a company; and
(b) exercising ten percent or more of the voting rights in the legal person or legal arrangement means to exercise the right under the constitutional document of the legal person or legal arrangement to effect changes to the overall policy of the legal person or legal arrangement.
Official source: Beneficial Ownership Regulations, 2020 (S.I. 107 of 2020), Consolidated by us with S.I. 32 of 2023 and S.I. 64 of 2025; S.I. 7 of 2025 made but not yet in force