Section 43A: Frequency of inspections
This section is inserted by The Anti-money Laundering and Combatting the Financing of Terrorism and Proliferation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2024, section 8.
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43A. Frequency of inspections
(ii) in subsection (1), by deleting the words “of an on-site” and replacing them by
the words “and intensity of an”;
(iii) by adding the following new subsection –
(3) For the purpose of subsection (1)(a), a licensee shall furnish the
Commission any information relating to its business or to the business
administered or managed by it for its clients to assess the risks of money
laundering, terrorist financing and proliferation financing, at such intervals
and within such time as the Commission may require.
(c) in section 44, in subsection (8), by adding the following new paragraph –
(c) Any person who fails, without reasonable excuse, to attend before an
investigator when summoned in accordance with subsection (3)(e), shall commit an
offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding 500,000 rupees
and to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years.
(d) in section 50, in subsection (1), by inserting, after the words “in a financial crime”,
the words “in Mauritius or another jurisdiction”;
(e) in section 53, in subsection (1)(a)(ii), by deleting the words “is carrying” and
replacing them by the words “has carried or is carrying”;
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Questions this section answers
- Must a licensee give the Commission information it needs to assess money-laundering and terrorist-financing risks?
- Can how often a licensee is inspected depend on the Commission's assessment of its risk?