Legal glossary
“beneficial owner”
Defined in 3 Acts. A definition holds for the Act that gives it; the same word can mean something else in another Act.
The Depositories Act, 1996 · s. 2
(a) "beneficial owner" means a person whose name is recorded as such with a depository;
Read section 2The Prevention of Money-Laundering Act, 2002 · s. 2
"beneficial owner" means an individual who ultimately owns or controls a client of a reporting entity or the person on whose behalf a transaction is being conducted and includes a person who exercises ultimate effective control over a juridical person;]
Read section 2The Prohibition of Benami Property Transactions Act, 1988 · s. 2
(12) "beneficial owner" means a person, whether his identity is known or not, for whose benefit the benami property is held by a benamidar ;
Read section 2