Section 12: Company Service Registrar of
This section is inserted by Act No 9 of 2019, section 10.
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.
12. Company Service Registrar of
Provider Companies
(ii) by repealing Part II and replacing it by the following
Part –
PART II – TRANSACTIONS UNDERTAKEN BY
MEMBERS OF A RELEVANT PROFESSION
OR OCCUPATION
The members of a relevant profession or occupation shall
comply with this Act or any regulations made or any guidelines
issued under this Act, in the following situations –
(a) a person licensed, under the Gambling Regulatory
Authority Act, to operate a casino, hotel casino, limited
payout machine, sweepstake, gaming house, gaming
machine, where any of his customers engages in
financial transactions equal to or above 100,000 rupees
or an equivalent amount in foreign currency;
(b) a totalisator, a bookmaker, a local pool promoter, the
agent of a foreign pool promoter and pool collector,
under the Gambling Regulatory Authority Act, where
any of his customers engages in financial transactions
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equal to or above 100,000 rupees or an equivalent
amount in foreign currency;
(c) an agent in land and building or an estate agency, a
land promoter and property developer under the Local
Government Act, where he is involved in transactions
for a client, with respect to both the purchaser and the
vendor, concerning the buying and selling of real estate;
(d) a dealer, under the Jewellery Act, who engages in any
cash transaction of at least 500,000 rupees in total,
whether the transaction is executed in a single operation
or in several operations which appear to be linked;
(e) a barrister, an attorney, a notary, a law firm, a foreign
law firm, a joint law venture, a foreign lawyer under the
Law Practitioners Act, and a professional accountant,
a public accountant and a member firm and licensed
auditor under the Financial Reporting Act, who prepares
for, or carries out, transactions for his client concerning
the following activities –
(i) buying and selling of real estate;
(ii) managing of client money, securities or other
assets;
(iii) management of bank, savings or securities
accounts;
(iv) organisation of contributions for the creation,
operation or management of legal persons
such as a company, a foundation, a limited
liability partnership or such other entity as may
be prescribed;
(v) creating, operating or management of legal persons
such as a company, a foundation, an association,
a limited liability partnership or such other entity
as may be prescribed, or legal arrangements, and
buying and selling of business entities; or
(vi) any activity specified in item (f);
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(f) a company service provider who prepares, or carries
out, transactions for a client concerning the following
activities –
(i) acting as a formation agent of a legal person with
a view to assisting another person to incorporate,
register or set up, as the case may be, a company,
a foundation, a limited liability partnership or
such other entity as may be prescribed;
(ii) acting, or causing another person to act, as a
director, as a secretary, as a partner or in any
other similar position, as the case may be, of a
legal person such as a company, foundation, a
limited liability partnership or such other entity
as may be prescribed;
(iii) providing a registered office, a business address
or an accommodation, a correspondence or an
administrative address for a legal person such
as a company, a foundation, a limited liability
partnership or such other entity as may be
prescribed; or
(iv) acting, or causing for another person to act, as a
nominee shareholder for an
er similar position, as the case may be, of a
legal person such as a company, foundation, a
limited liability partnership or such other entity
as may be prescribed;
(iii) providing a registered office, a business address
or an accommodation, a correspondence or an
administrative address for a legal person such
as a company, a foundation, a limited liability
partnership or such other entity as may be
prescribed; or
(iv) acting, or causing for another person to act, as a
nominee shareholder for another person.
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