Section 113C: Registration of Money Laundering Reporting
This section is inserted by Act No 10 of 2024, 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.
113C. Registration of Money Laundering Reporting
Officer, Deputy Money Laundering Reporting Officer
and Compliance Officer
(1) (a) Every licensee referred to in item 7 of
Part I of the First Schedule to the Financial Intelligence
and Anti-Money Laundering Act shall, with the approval
of the Authority and on such terms and conditions as
it may determine, appoint a Money Laundering Reporting
Officer, Deputy Money Laundering Reporting Officer or
Compliance Officer.
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(b) Where the Authority objects to a proposed
appointment under paragraph (a), it shall give the licensee an
opportunity to make representations within such reasonable
time as the Authority may determine.
(c) The Authority may, after having
considered the representations under paragraph (b), withdraw
its objection to the proposed appointment.
(2) Every licensee falling under item 7 of
Part I of the First Schedule to the Financial Intelligence and
Anti-Money Laundering Act shall notify the Authority within
7 days of any removal or resignation of its Money Laundering
Reporting Officer, Deputy Money Laundering Reporting
Officer or Compliance Officer and shall provide particulars
of such removal or resignation as the Authority may require.
(3) Any person acting as Money Laundering
Reporting Officer, Deputy Money Laundering Reporting
Officer and Compliance Officer shall be a natural person.
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Questions this section answers
- Does a licensee need the Authority's approval before appointing a Money Laundering Reporting Officer?
- How many days does a licensee have to tell the Authority that its Money Laundering Reporting Officer resigned or was removed?
- Must the person acting as Money Laundering Reporting Officer be an individual rather than a company?