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Offshore Trusts Report: GibraltarLegal Framework And Formation Rules and Fees Trust management, particularly for wealthy UK individuals, has been a traditional business for Gibraltar. Successive tightenings of UK anti-avoidance legislation have reduced the possibilities for UK citizens, but trust work continues to be significant; many Collective Investment Funds are of course based on Trusts. The basic law of trusts is contained in the Gibraltar Trustee Ordinance, which is virtually a copy of English trust legislation. Gibraltarian legislation affecting trusts also includes the Perpetuities and Accumulations Ordinance, the Trustee Investments Ordinance, the Bankruptcy Ordinance and the Trusts (Recognition) Ordinance, and the Financial Services (Conduct of Fiduciary Services Business) Regulations 2006. Appeal is to the Privy Council. The Hague Convention has been implemented, but there are no provisions for the exclusion of foreign inheritance laws or for the nonrecogition of foreign judgements. Under the Bankruptcy Ordinance there is statutory protection against creditors for asset protection trusts, providing the settlor is an individual, and was not insolvent at the time of the disposition, nor became so as a result of it.
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