Investment Services Act (Contractual Funds)

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta Nru. 21,685, 10 ta’ Lulju, 2026 B 2137

L.N. 187 of 2026

INVESTMENT SERVICES ACT

(CAP. 370)

Investment Services Act (Contractual Funds)

(Amendment) Regulations, 2026

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 12 of the

Investment Services Act, the Minister responsible for the regulation of

financial services, acting on the advice of the Malta Financial Services

Authority, has made the following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Investment Services Act Citation.

(Contractual Funds) (Amendment) Regulations, 2026 and these

regulations shall be read and construed as one with the Investment S.L. 370.16.

Services Act (Contractual Funds) Regulations, hereinafter referred to

as the "principal regulations".

Sub-regulation (1) of regulation 2 of the principal Amends

regulation 2 of

regulations shall be amended as follows

the principal

regulations.

(a)

the definition "custodian" shall be deleted;

(b) immediately after the definition "currency" there

shall be added the following new definition

" "depositary" means the person responsible for the

safekeeping and custody of the assets of the contractual

fund and for carrying out such duties specified in

Investment Services Rules issued by the competent

authority or in the contractual fund’s licence conditions;".

In regulation 16 of the principal regulations the word Amends

"custodians", wherever it occurs, shall be substituted by the word regulation

the principal

"depositaries".

regulations.

In the principal regulations the word "custodian", wherever General

amendment to

it occurs, shall be substituted by the word "depositary".

the principal

regulations.

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