Section 30: Confidentiality
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.
30. Confidentiality
(1) The Director, every officer of the FIU, and the Chairperson and members of the Board shall—
(a) before they begin to perform any duties under this Act, take an
oath of confidentiality in the form set out in the Second
Schedule; and
(b) maintain during and after their relationship with the FIU the confidentiality of any matter relating to the relevant enactments.
(2) No information from which an individual or body can be identified and
which is acquired by the FIU in the course of carrying out its functions shall be
disclosed except where the disclosure appears to the FIU to be necessary—
(a) to enable the FIU to carry out its functions;
(b) in the interests of the prevention or detection of crime; or
(c) in connection with the discharge of any international obligation
to which Mauritius is subject.
(3) Any person who contravenes this section shall commit an offence
and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding one million rupees
and to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years.
[S. 30 amended by s. 3 (l) of Act 34 of 2003 w.e.f. 27 September 2003; s. 17 (l) of Act 27 of
2013 w.e.f. 21 December 2013.]