Investment Services Act (Notified CISs)

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta Nru. 21,686, 14 ta’ Lulju, 2026

L.N. 197 of 2026

INVESTMENT SERVICES ACT

(CAP. 370)

Investment Services Act (Notified CISs)

(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.

(Notified CISs) (Amendment) Regulations, 2026 and these regulations

shall be read and construed as one with the Investment Services Act

(Notified CISs) Regulations, hereinafter referred to as the "principal S.L. 370.34.

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" thereof shall be deleted;

(b) immediately after the definition "Directive 2004/39/

EC" thereof there shall be added the following new definition

" "depositary" means a person licensed by the

competent authority or a European regulatory authority to

provide depositary services;".

The principal regulations shall be amended as follows

General

amendments to

the principal

(a)

the word "custodian", wherever it occurs, shall be

regulations.

substituted by the word "depositary";

(b)

the word "custodians", wherever it occurs, shall be

substituted by the word "depositaries";

(c)

the word "custody", wherever it occurs, shall be

substituted by the word "depositary".

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