Legislation

 

Austria

Aktiengesetz 1965 (Stock Corporation Act 1965)

Bundesgesetz über das Insolvenzverfahren (Insolvency Act)

Allgemeines Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (ABGB) (Civil Code) 

Einkommensteuergesetz 1988 (Income tax act 1988)

Umsatzsteuergesetz 1994 (Turnover tax act 1994)

 

Bahamas

IBC Act 2000

IBC (Amendment) Act 2004

Belize

International Business Companies Act 1990 (as amended 2000)

 

Belgium

Code des Sociétés 1999/ Gesellschaftengesetzbuch/ Сompanies Code/

British Virgin Islands

BVI Business Companies Act, 2004 (as amended 2006)

Anti-Money Laundering Regulations 2008

Anti-money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Code of Practice (Consolidated 2009)

United Kingdom

Companies Act 2006, Chapter 46

Money Laundering Regulations 2007

Gibraltar

Companies Act 1930

Crime (Money Laundering and Proceeds) Act (As amended by the Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2007

  

Hong Kong

Companies Ordinance 1984

Co-operative Societies Ordinance 1950

Business Registration Ordinance 1959

Hungary

The Civil Code of the Republic of Hungary

Act 1996 - LXXXI of income tax and tax on dividends

Denmark

Danish Companies Act

Commonwealth of Dominica 

Registration of Business Names Act 1958

Co-operative Societies Act 1983 

International Business Companies Act 1996

Ireland

Companies (Amendment) Act 2009

Cayman Islands

Companies Law

 

Cyprus

Сompanies Act (Cap. 113)

AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBLE TAXATION WITH RESPECT TO TAXES ON INCOME AND ON CAPITAL 5 декабря 1998

PROTOCOL TO THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBLE TAXATION WITH RESPECT TO TAXES ON INCOME AND ON CAPITAL (signed Nicosia, 16 April, 2009)

Liechtenstein

Personen- und Gesellschaftsrecht (PGR) / Liechtenstein Company Law - official text in German

Personen- und Gesellschaftsrecht (PGR) / Liechtenstein Company Law - English translation

Luxembourg

Law of 19 December 2002 on the Register of commerce and companies as well as bookkeeping and annual accounts of companies and modifying some other legal dispositions.

Societes et Associations (2010)

Netherlands

Boek 2 BW: Rechtspersonen (Книга 2 Гражданского кодекса: Юридические лица/ Civil Code Book 2: Legal Persons) - in dutch

Boek 2 BW: Rechtspersonen (Книга 2 Гражданского кодекса: Юридические лица/ Civil Code Book 2: Legal Persons) - unofficial translation into English

Dutch Competition Act

 

United Arab Emirates

Regulations on International Business Companies 2006 - RAK companies

Jebel Ali Free Zone Offshore Companies Regulations 2003

 

Isle of Nevis

Nevis Business Corporation Ordinance, 1984, as amended in 2009

Nevis Limited Liability Company Ordinance, 1995, as amended in 2009

Anti-Money Laundering Regulations, 2001 

Panama

Corporation Law No. 32 of the 1927

Commercial Code - Decree Law 5 of 1997, Article 5

Executive Decree 296 of 1997

Seychelles

Companies Law 1972

International Business Companies Act 1994  

Companies (Special Licence) Act 2003  

Protected Cell Companies Act 2004

United States of America

Wyoming Business Corporation Act

Wyoming Limited Liability Company Act

Title 8 of the Delaware Code, Corporations

Delaware Limited Liability Company Act, Chapter 18 of of the Delaware Code

South Dakota Business Corporation Act

Uniform Limited Liability Company Act

The USA PATRIOT Act of 2001

Switzerland

Swiss Code of Obligations -  Art. 620 – 763 ,  Art. 772 et seqq. ( in English)

  

INTERNATIONAL ACTS

FATF Recommendations

UN model acts on Anti-Money Laundering