FSC
Act
92 published document(s) from British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission.
| Citation | Status | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Administration of Small Estates (Amendment) Act, 2021 | Amends Administration of Small Estates Act (Cap. 4) | This is a short amending Act that changes several provisions of the Administration of Small Estates Act (Cap. 4) in the British Virgin Islands. It raises… |
| Administration of Small Estates Act (Cap. 4) | Status not confirmed | This is a short BVI statute (Cap. 4) providing a simplified procedure for administering very small deceased estates (valued at no more than 240 dollars) t… |
| Arbitration (Amendment) Act, 2015 | Status not confirmed | This is a short technical amendment act that makes minor textual corrections to the BVI Arbitration Act, 2013. It does not create new obligations for arbi… |
| Arbitration Act (Revised Edition 2020) | In force | This is the Virgin Islands' Arbitration Act, revised to show the law as at 1 January 2020. It gives the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arb… |
| BVI Business Companies (Amendment) (No. 2) Act, 2024 | In force | This Act amends section 98A of the BVI Business Companies Act, Revised Edition 2020, to give the Financial Services Commission power to extend the deadlin… |
| BVI Business Companies (Amendment) Act, 2022 (No. 6 of 2022) | Amends BVI Business Companies Act (Revised 2020) | This Act amends the BVI Business Companies Act, Revised Edition 2020, making a wide range of changes to company law administration in the Virgin Islands.… |
| BVI Business Companies (Amendment) Act, 2023 | In force | This Act amends the BVI Business Companies Act, Revised Edition 2020, to strengthen beneficial ownership record keeping for both local and foreign compani… |
| BVI Business Companies (Amendment) Act, 2024 | Amends BVI Business Companies Act (Revised 2020) | This Act substantially amends the BVI Business Companies Act, Revised Edition 2020, introducing a new statutory beneficial ownership regime, changing how… |
| BVI Business Companies Act (Revised 2020) | In force | This is the core Virgin Islands statute governing the incorporation, structure, management and dissolution of BVI business companies. It sets out the full… |
| Banks and Trust Companies (Amendment) Act, 2022 | Amends Banks and Trust Companies Act (Revised Edition 2020) | This Act amends the Banks and Trust Companies Act, Revised Edition 2020 (BVI), introducing a bank resolution framework, a new bridge bank licence category… |
| Banks and Trust Companies (Amendment) Act, 2023 | Amends Banks and Trust Companies Act (Revised Edition 2020) | This Act amends the BVI Banks and Trust Companies Act, Revised Edition 2020, updating several definitions and licensing and governance provisions. It does… |
| Banks and Trust Companies (Amendment) Act, 2024 | Amends Banks and Trust Companies Act (Revised Edition 2020) | This Act amends the Banks and Trust Companies Act, Revised Edition 2020, to broaden what counts as 'trust business' and to add a new condition for banking… |
| Banks and Trust Companies Act (Revised Edition 2020) | In force | This is the British Virgin Islands' Banks and Trust Companies Act (Revised Edition 2020), the core statute licensing and regulating banking business, trus… |
| Beneficial Ownership Secure Search System Act (Revised Edition 2020) | In force | This Act establishes the Beneficial Ownership Secure Search System (BOSS), an electronic platform that lets a designated person search beneficial ownershi… |
| Company Management (Amendment) Act, 2023 | Amends Company Management Act (Revised 2020) | This Act amends the BVI Company Management Act, Revised Edition 2020, updating key definitions and tightening licensing and governance requirements for co… |
| Company Management Act (Revised 2020) | In force | This is the BVI Financial Services Commission's consolidated Company Management Act, which establishes the licensing regime for company management busines… |
| Copyright Act (Revised 2020) | In force | This is the British Virgin Islands' Copyright Act, a general law dating originally from 1956 (based on the UK Copyright Act 1956) and consolidated in this… |
| Counter-Terrorism (Amendment) Act, 2023 | Amends Counter-Terrorism Act, 2021 | This Act amends the British Virgin Islands' Counter-Terrorism Act, No. 33 of 2021, tightening definitions and offence provisions related to terrorist fina… |
| Counter-Terrorism Act, 2021 | In force | This is the British Virgin Islands' primary counter-terrorism statute, criminalising terrorist acts, terrorist financing and related conduct, and establis… |
| Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) (Amendment) Act, 2023 (No. 14 of 2023) | Amends Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act (Revised Edition 2020) | This Act amends the Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act, Revised Edition 2020, which governs BVI's mutual legal assistance arrangements with… |
| Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act (Revised Edition 2020) | In force | This is a Virgin Islands statute (not an FSC-issued regulatory instrument) that enables the Virgin Islands to cooperate with other countries in criminal p… |
| Criminal Justice (International Cooperation) (Amendment) Act, 2021 | Amends Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act (Revised Edition 2020) | This is a Virgin Islands legislative amendment act that revises the Criminal Justice (International Cooperation) Act, 1993. Its main effect is administrat… |
| Drug Trafficking Offences (Amendment) Act, 2000 (No. 5 of 2000) | Status not confirmed | This is a Virgin Islands legislative Act that amends the Drug Trafficking Offences Act, 1992 (No. 5 of 1992). It makes extensive technical changes to the… |
| Drug Trafficking Offences (Amendment) Act, 2021 | Amends Drug Trafficking Offences Act (Revised Edition 2020) | This Act amends the BVI Drug Trafficking Offences Act, 1992, primarily to replace the now-abolished Steering Committee and, in most instances, individual… |
| Drug Trafficking Offences (Amendment) Act, 2023 | Amends Drug Trafficking Offences Act (Revised Edition 2020) | This Act amends the BVI Drug Trafficking Offences Act, 2020 Revised Edition. It substantially increases the criminal penalties (fines and imprisonment ter… |
| Drug Trafficking Offences (Amendment) Act, 2025 (No. 8 of 2025) | Amends Drug Trafficking Offences Act (Revised Edition 2020) | This is a Virgin Islands (BVI) Act amending the Drug Trafficking Offences Act, Revised Edition 2020, to address deficiencies identified in the CFATF Fourt… |
| Drug Trafficking Offences Act (Revised Edition 2020) | In force | This is the Virgin Islands' primary statute for tackling the proceeds of drug trafficking, consolidated to reflect amendments through 2017 and revised as… |
| Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act (Revised 2020) | In force | This is the Virgin Islands Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, a general criminal statute (not a financial services rule) that controls the importation, pro… |
| Economic Substance (Companies and Limited Partnerships) Act (Revised 2020) | In force | This Act establishes the British Virgin Islands economic substance regime. It requires companies and limited partnerships that carry on specified 'relevan… |
| Financial Investigation Agency (Amendment) Act, 2021 (No. 34 of 2021) | Amends Financial Investigation Agency Act (Revised Edition 2020) | This Act substantially amends the Financial Investigation Agency Act, 2003, restructuring the BVI's Financial Investigation Agency (FIA) and expanding its… |
| Financial Investigation Agency (Amendment) Act, 2023 | Amends Financial Investigation Agency Act (Revised Edition 2020) | This Act amends the Financial Investigation Agency Act (Revised Edition 2020) in the British Virgin Islands. It broadens the definition of 'foreign financ… |
| Financial Investigation Agency (Amendment) Act, 2024 | Amends Financial Investigation Agency Act (Revised Edition 2020) | This Act amends the BVI Financial Investigation Agency Act, 2020 to expand the Agency's supervisory and enforcement powers over DNFBPs (designated non-fin… |
| Financial Investigation Agency Act (Revised Edition 2020) | In force | This Act establishes the Financial Investigation Agency (FIA), a body corporate separate from the FSC, along with its Board and Steering Committee, to rec… |
| Financial Services (Exceptional Circumstances) (Amendment) Act, 2025 (No. 1 of 2025) | Amends Financial Services (Exceptional Circumstances) Act, 2020 | This is a short amendment act that alters the Financial Services (Exceptional Circumstances) Act, 2020 (No. 4 of 2020) in the British Virgin Islands. It r… |
| Financial Services (Exceptional Circumstances) Act, 2020 | In force | This Act creates a standing legal framework that the BVI Financial Services Commission and Minister can activate by Order whenever an exceptional circumst… |
| Financial Services Appeal Board Act (Revised 2020) | In force | This Act establishes the Financial Services Appeal Board, an independent tribunal that hears appeals against decisions, acts or omissions of the BVI Finan… |
| Financial Services Commission (Amendment) Act, 2021 | Amends Financial Services Commission Act (Revised Edition 2020) | This Act amends the Financial Services Commission Act, 2001 to change how the BVI Financial Services Commission handles late filing penalties where an aut… |
| Financial Services Commission (Amendment) Act, 2022 | Amends Financial Services Commission Act (Revised Edition 2020) | This Act amends the BVI Financial Services Commission Act, 2001 (Revised Edition 2020) to expand the Commission's crisis management, resolution and inform… |
| Financial Services Commission (Amendment) Act, 2023 | Amends Financial Services Commission Act (Revised Edition 2020) | This Act amends the Financial Services Commission Act, Revised Edition 2020, by inserting a new section 33G dealing with feedback on international regulat… |
| Financial Services Commission (Amendment) Act, 2024 (No. 22 of 2024) | Amends Financial Services Commission Act (Revised Edition 2020) | This Act amends the Financial Services Commission Act, Revised Edition 2020, making wide-ranging changes to the Commission's powers, governance, and enfor… |
| Financial Services Commission Act (Revised Edition 2020) | In force | This is the British Virgin Islands' foundational financial regulatory statute. It establishes the Financial Services Commission (the Commission) as the bo… |
| Financing and Money Services (Amendment) Act, 2020 | Amends Financing and Money Services Act (Revised 2020) | This Act amends the Financing and Money Services Act, 2009 to introduce a new transaction levy on outbound money transmission services and to increase pen… |
| Financing and Money Services (Amendment) Act, 2021 | In force | This short amendment Act changes the Financing and Money Services Act, 2009 by inserting a new subsection into section 45A, which governs the transaction… |
| Financing and Money Services (Amendment) Act, 2023 | Amends Financing and Money Services Act (Revised 2020) | This Act amends the Financing and Money Services Act, Revised Edition 2020, updating the definitions of controlling interest and significant interest and… |
| Financing and Money Services Act (Revised 2020) | In force | This Act establishes the licensing and supervisory regime for financing business and money services business in the Virgin Islands, administered by the BV… |
| Insolvency (Amendment and Consequential Provisions) Act, 2004 | Amends Mutual Funds Act, 1996 | This is a lengthy amendment Act that makes over 170 individual textual and consequential changes to the BVI Insolvency Act, 2003, tidying up drafting erro… |
| Insolvency (Amendment) Act, 2022 | Amends Insolvency Act (Revised 2020) | This Act amends the Insolvency Act, Revised Edition 2020, primarily to give the Virgin Islands Deposit Insurance Corporation (VIDIC) a formal role in the… |
| Insolvency (Amendment) Act, 2024 | Amends Insolvency Act (Revised 2020) | This Act amends the BVI Insolvency Act, Revised Edition 2020, to broaden the grounds on which the Financial Services Commission may apply to have a court… |
| Insolvency Act (Revised 2020) | In force | The Insolvency Act (Revised 2020) is the principal BVI statute governing corporate and personal insolvency. It sets out the full regime for company credit… |
| Insurance (Amendment) Act, 2023 | Amends Insurance Act (Revised 2020) | This Act amends the BVI Insurance Act, Revised Edition 2020, to broaden and clarify the concepts of controlling interest and significant interest in a lic… |
| Insurance (Amendment) Act, 2024 | Amends Insurance Act (Revised 2020) | This Act amends section 22 of the Insurance Act, Revised Edition 2020, to tighten controls on changes in ownership or control of foreign insurers licensed… |
| Insurance Act (Revised 2020) | In force | This is the consolidated Insurance Act of the Virgin Islands (BVI), the primary statute governing the licensing, regulation and supervision of insurance b… |
| Insurance Act, 2008 (No. 1 of 2008) | Superseded | This is the Insurance Act, 2008, the principal law governing the licensing, regulation and supervision of insurance business, insurance managers, insuranc… |
| International Tax Authority Act (Revised 2020) | In force | This Act establishes the International Tax Authority (the Authority) as a body corporate in the Virgin Islands, with a governing Board, to oversee complia… |
| Legal Profession (Amendment) (No. 2) Act, 2016 (No. 3 of 2016) | In force | This Act amends the Legal Profession Act, 2015 of the Virgin Islands. It makes technical changes to practising certificate rules and to the definition pro… |
| Legal Profession (Amendment) Act, 2016 (No. 1 of 2016) | In force | This Act makes a series of technical amendments to the Legal Profession Act, 2015, adjusting qualification requirements, practising certificate rules, tem… |
| Legal Profession Act (Revised 2020) | In force | This is the Legal Profession Act (Revised 2020), the Virgin Islands statute governing the admission, enrolment, regulation and discipline of legal practit… |
| Limited Partnership (Amendment) Act, 2023 (No. 12 of 2023) | Amends Limited Partnership Act (Revised Edition 2020) | This is a short amending Act that changes one provision of the BVI Limited Partnership Act, Revised Edition 2020. It does not create new obligations broad… |
| Limited Partnership (Amendment) Act, 2024 (No. 23 of 2024) | Amends Limited Partnership Act (Revised Edition 2020) | This Act amends the BVI Limited Partnership Act, Revised Edition 2020, introducing a range of new filing, beneficial ownership and record-keeping duties f… |
| Limited Partnership Act (Revised Edition 2020) | In force | This is the Limited Partnership Act (Revised 2020), the core British Virgin Islands statute governing the formation, registration, operation, continuation… |
| Micro Business Companies Act, 2017 | Status not confirmed | This Act creates a new, simplified BVI corporate vehicle called the 'micro business company' (MBC), intended for very small businesses. An MBC is a compan… |
| Mutual Funds Act, 1996 | Status not confirmed | This is the original Mutual Funds Act, 1996 of the British Virgin Islands, which established the first statutory framework for regulating mutual funds and… |
| Mutual Legal Assistance (Tax Matters) Act (Revised 2020) | In force | This is a British Virgin Islands statute (despite covering BVI, not Cayman, law) that provides the legal framework for international tax information excha… |
| Mutual Legal Assistance (United States of America) Act (Revised 2020) | In force | This Act gives legal effect in the British Virgin Islands to the 1986 Treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom (extended to the BVI) on mut… |
| Non-Profit Organisations Act, 2012 | In force | This Act establishes a registration, supervision and monitoring regime for non-profit organisations (NPOs) operating in the Virgin Islands, primarily aime… |
| Partnership (Amendment) Act, 2023 | Amends Partnership Act (Revised 2020) | This Act amends the BVI Partnership Act, Revised Edition 2020, by inserting a new Part VI that creates a full statutory regime for limited partnerships in… |
| Partnership Act (Revised 2020) | In force | This is the BVI Partnership Act, the core statute governing general partnerships in the Virgin Islands. It sets out how a partnership is formed and recogn… |
| Patents Act (Revised 2020) | In force | This is the Patents Act (Revised 2020), the core British Virgin Islands statute governing how patents for inventions are applied for, examined, opposed, g… |
| Probates (Resealing) Act, 2021 | In force | This Act sets out the framework for resealing in the Virgin Islands of probates and letters of administration originally granted by a court of probate in… |
| Proceeds of Criminal Conduct (Amendment) Act, 2021 (No. 25 of 2021) | Amends Proceeds of Criminal Conduct Act (Revised Edition 2020) | This Act amends the BVI Proceeds of Criminal Conduct Act, 1997 to modernise the anti-money laundering and terrorist financing (AML/CFT) framework. It broa… |
| Proceeds of Criminal Conduct (Amendment) Act, 2023 | Amends Proceeds of Criminal Conduct Act (Revised Edition 2020) | This Act amends the BVI Proceeds of Criminal Conduct Act, Revised Edition 2020, primarily by increasing several monetary penalties, reducing some maximum… |
| Proceeds of Criminal Conduct (Amendment) Act, 2025 | Amends Proceeds of Criminal Conduct Act (Revised Edition 2020) | This is a Virgin Islands (BVI) Act amending the Proceeds of Criminal Conduct Act, Revised Edition 2020, enacted to address deficiencies identified in the… |
| Proceeds of Criminal Conduct Act (Revised Edition 2020) | In force | This BVI statute is the core legal framework for confiscating the proceeds of criminal conduct and for money laundering offences in the Virgin Islands. It… |
| Proliferation Financing (Prohibition) (Amendment) Act, 2024 | Status not confirmed | This Act amends the Proliferation Financing (Prohibition) Act, 2021 (BVI) to tighten prohibitions on dealing with or making available assets linked to des… |
| Proliferation Financing (Prohibition) Act, 2009 (No. 15 of 2009) | Repealed | This is the BVI's Proliferation Financing (Prohibition) Act, 2009 (No. 15 of 2009), which empowers the Financial Investigation Agency (the Agency) to issu… |
| Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Act, 2021 (No. 11 of 2021) | Status not confirmed | This Act amends the BVI Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2003 to change how the law treats dispositions of property in favour of illegitimate (non… |
| Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (Revised Edition 2020) | In force | This is a general Virgin Islands statute (in force since 1 March 2004, as revised to 1 January 2020) dealing with the formalities for executing deeds and… |
| Registration of United Kingdom Patents Act (Revised 2020) | In force | This Act establishes a mechanism for registering United Kingdom patents (including certain European Patent Office patents with UK effect) in the Virgin Is… |
| Securities and Investment Business (Amendment) Act, 2023 | Amends Securities and Investment Business Act (Revised 2020) | This Act amends the Securities and Investment Business Act (Revised Edition 2020) in the British Virgin Islands. It introduces a new defined term, control… |
| Securities and Investment Business Act (Revised 2020) | In force | This is the consolidated Securities and Investment Business Act, the core BVI statute governing investment business licensing, public offers of securities… |
| Terrorist Asset-Freezing etc. Act 2010 (c. 38) | In force | This Act establishes a terrorist asset-freezing regime under which the Treasury may designate individuals or entities believed or suspected to be involved… |
| Trade Marks Act (Revised Edition 2020) | In force | This is the consolidated Trade Marks Act of the Virgin Islands (BVI), as revised to 1 January 2020, incorporating Act 9 of 2013 and Act 18 of 2015. It rep… |
| Trust Corporation (Probate and Administration) Act (Revised 2020) | In force | This BVI Act defines what counts as a trust corporation for purposes of being appointed executor or administrator of a deceased person's estate, and empow… |
| Trustee (Amendment) Act, 2021 | Amends Trustee Act (Revised Edition 2020) | This Act amends the BVI Trustee Act (Cap. 303) to modernise several areas of trust law, including court powers to vary trusts and set aside flawed exercis… |
| Trustee (Amendment) Act, 2024 | Amends Trustee Act (Revised Edition 2020) | This Act amends the BVI Trustee Act, Revised Edition 2020, to impose statutory beneficial ownership obligations on trustees. It inserts a new section 92B… |
| Trustee Act (Revised Edition 2020) | In force | This is the BVI Trustee Act, the core statute governing the creation, administration and powers of trusts and trustees in the Virgin Islands. It sets out… |
| UK Extradition Act 1989 (c. 33) | Status not confirmed | This is the UK Extradition Act 1989 (c. 33), a Westminster statute consolidating and updating the law of extradition between the United Kingdom and foreig… |
| United Kingdom Designs (Protection) Act (Revised 2020) | In force | This is the revised (as at 1 January 2020) text of the United Kingdom Designs (Protection) Act, a Virgin Islands statute originally enacted in 1930 and am… |
| Virgin Islands Deposit Insurance Act, 2016 | In force | This Act establishes the Virgin Islands Deposit Insurance Corporation and a Deposit Insurance Fund to provide limited compensation to insured depositors i… |
| Virgin Islands Special Trusts (Amendment) Act, 2021 (No. 13 of 2021) | Status not confirmed | This is a short amendment act that updates the Virgin Islands Special Trusts Act, 2003. It makes a single technical change to a cross-reference in section… |
| Virgin Islands Special Trusts Act (Revised 2020) | In force | This is the revised Virgin Islands Special Trusts Act (VISTA), which creates a special trust regime for shares in BVI business companies. It lets a settlo… |
| Virtual Assets Service Providers Act, 2022 | In force | This Act establishes the registration and supervision framework for virtual assets service providers (VASPs) in the Virgin Islands, covering VASPs general… |