Section 51B: Collection of statistics
This section is inserted by Finance Act 2016, section 2.
consolidated text (as at 2016, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
51B. Collection of statistics
(1) With a view to carrying out its objects pursuant to
section 4(2) and discharging its functions pursuant to section 5,
the Bank shall, without prejudice to sections 51 and 51A, request
the competent authorities, or any other entity, in Mauritius to
furnish to the Bank the necessary statistical information.
(2) Where the information requested under subsection
(1) is not furnished to the Bank in a timely manner, the Bank
shall, in consultation with the competent authorities, collect the
required information from the relevant entities.
(3) For the purpose of section 5(1)(d), the Bank, the
Financial Services Commission and Statistics Mauritius shall
coordinate and collaborate with a view to harmonising the
rules and practices governing the collection, compilation and
dissemination of statistics.
(i) in section 52, in subsection (1) –
(i) by inserting, after the words “system in”, the words “, and
maintaining the stability and soundness of the (cid:191)nancial
system of,”;
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(ii) by adding the following new paragraph, the word “and”
at the end of paragraph (c) being deleted and the full stop
at the end of paragraph (d) being deleted and replaced by
the words “; and” –
(e) assisting the Bank in the discharge of its
functions under section 5(1).
(j) in section 55A, in subsection (1), by inserting, after paragraph
(a), the following new paragraph –
(aa) the Minister to whom responsibility for the
subject of (cid:191)nancial services is assigned;