BO REPORTING
Domestic Beneficial Ownership
All legal persons found under part A of the First Schedule of the Beneficial Ownership Act, 2020, must comply to the BO Act by January 31st, 2022
Legal Persons:
A company, including an overseas company, incorporated or registered under the Companies Act.
An Association registered under the Registration of Associations Act.
A partner of a partnership under the Civil Code of Seychelles Act.
Register of Beneficial Owners
Every legal person shall maintain a register, to be known as a register of beneficial owners, at the principal place of business of its resident agent.
“resident agent” means—
- secretary appointed under section 179 of the Companies Act;
- the person responsible under section 12 of the Registration of Associations Act;
- a partner of a partnership under the Civil Code of Seychelles Act;
Beneficial ownership information of legal persons must be uploaded onto the Seychelles Beneficial Ownership Database through their resident agent.
Click on this link to access the bo Domestic platform: https://www.fiu.sc:4443/bo_domestic
Below are Steps for accessing and populating the Seychelles BO database;
Registration Domestic Platform
Download and read through the guidelines for registration. There are 2 registration forms available;
1) Company Secretaries acting in their individual capacity.
Click to Access BO Guidelines – Resident Agent (Individual)
2) Companies offering Secretarial Services:
Click to Access BO Guidelines – Resident Agent (Corporate Entity)
Your registration will be approved or rejected and you will be notified in your email. If not then please contact FIU
Access BO Domestic Platform
Click to Access BO Domestic Portal
Important: Ensure all mandatory documents are attached to your registration. Please see the documentation under chapter 'Attachments'.
Reporting BO
After the FIU has reviewed and approved your registration, you can now login on the platform and populate BO information per below guidelines;
Click to Access BO Guidelines – Populating the BO database
Confirmation reports Domestic
Please contact the FIU on supervision&compliance@fiu.sc to receive confirmation of your BO population.
Non-Domestic (Offshore) Beneficial Ownership
For legal persons and legal arrangements found under part B of the First Schedule of the Beneficial Ownership Act, 2020, please use the following link to access the Seychelles BO database;
https://www.fiu.sc:4443/bo_live
Legal Persons associated in the offshore sector
An international business company incorporated or continued or converted under the International Business Companies Act.
A company incorporated under the Companies (Special Licences) Act.
A protected cell company incorporated under the Protected Cell Companies Act.
A foundation established under the Foundations Act.
A company incorporated under the Companies (Special Licences) Act, Except that this special type of company has their beneficial owners listed on a public domain.
Legal Arrangements associated in the offshore sector
A resident trustee of an international trust under the International Trusts Act.
A general partner of a limited partnership under the Limited Partnerships Act.
Registration Non-Domestic Platform
Reporting BO Non-Domestic Platform
The video below contains a video guide on how to populate BO information on the Non-Domestic paltform.
Confirmation Reports Non-Domestic: Peazip guide
Upon successful submission of BO information onto the Seychelles BO database, note that the FIU will be sending confirmation reports through the message board. This confirmation will be in protected PDF format and will require the use of peazip to unlock and extract the information. As such, kindly find below guidance on how to open a protected peazip file and link to download and install the software.
