Section 4: Enforcement Authority
consolidated text (as at 2018, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
4. Enforcement Authority
(1) There shall be an Enforcement Authority which may exercise any of
the powers vested in it by this Act.
(2) Subject to subsection (3), the Enforcement Authority shall be FIU.
(2A) (a) In the exercise of its powers under this Act, FIU shall be assisted by such law practitioners as the Director may appoint.
(b) Any law practitioner appointed under paragraph (a) shall give
general assistance to the Enforcement Authority, including legal assistance in
the conduct of investigations and in the application and enforcement of this Act.
(c) In this subsection—
“law practitioner” has the same meaning as in the Law Practitioners Act.
(3) The powers of the Enforcement Authority specified in sections 7 (2), 17
and 34 shall be exercised by the Director to the exclusion of any other person.
(4) The Enforcement Authority may do anything which it considers is—
(a) appropriate for facilitating; or
(b) incidental or conducive to,
the exercise of its functions.
[S. 4 amended by s. 5 of Act 24 of 2012 w.e.f. 10 November 2012; s. 4 of Act 29 of 2015
w.e.f. 26 January 2016; s. 3 (b) of Act 11 of 2018 w.e.f. 9 August 2018.]