Records last updated: 07 November 2024
Contact person: Favour Ime
Current ongoing work
Open Ownership is providing technical assistance to the Financial Intelligence Centre, the Business and Intellectual Property Authority, and the Master of the High Court, as they work to develop systems to collect, maintain, and share beneficial ownership information. We are also supporting them as they navigate implementation issues, particularly with compliance and data collection.
Committed to one or more
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Live registerFollowing the launch of one or more beneficial ownership registers, a country is labelled as Live register.
Implementation details
Master of the High Court BO Trust Register
- Name
- Master of the High Court BO Trust Register
- Scope
- Full-economy
- Register launched
- 2023
- Structured data publicly available
- No
- Published as BODS
- Planned
- Available via API
- No
Business and Intellectual Property Authority beneficial ownership register for companies and close corporations
- Name
- Business and Intellectual Property Authority beneficial ownership register for companies and close corporations
- Scope
- Full-economy
- Register launched
- 2023
- Threshold used to determine beneficial ownership
- 25%
- Structured data publicly available
- No
- Published as BODS
- Planned
- Available via API
- No
Commitment details
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- Namibia has started the legislative process for beneficial ownership transparency reforms. [08 February 2023] link to commitment
- Namibia has passed legislation to establish a central public beneficial ownership register and require companies/closed corporations to file their beneficial ownership information under the Companies Amendment Act 2023 and the Close Corporations Amendment Act 2023 [21 July 2023] link to commitment
