Proceeds of Crime (Amendment No. 4) (Jersey) Law 2021

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Proceeds of Crime (Amendment No. 4) (Jersey) Law 2021

A LAW to amend further the Proceeds of Crime (Jersey) Law 1999.

Adopted by the States                                                                      30th June 2021

Sanctioned by Order of Her Majesty in Council          29th September 2021

Registered by the Royal Court                                                    1st October 2021

Coming into force                                                                           8th October 2021

THE STATES, subject to the sanction of Her Most Excellent Majesty in Council, have adopted the following Law –

1        Article 37 (procedures to prevent and detect money laundering) of the Proceeds of Crime (Jersey) Law 1999 amended

In Article 37 of the Proceeds of Crime (Jersey) Law 1999 –

(a)     for paragraph (1) there is substituted –

“(1)    The Minister for External Relations and Financial Services, by Order, for the purposes of preventing and detecting money laundering –

(a)     must prescribe measures to be taken (including measures not to be taken) by persons who carry on financial services business; and

(b)     may prescribe measures to be taken (including measures not to be taken) by persons, acting as trustees, who do not fall under sub-paragraph (a)”;

(b)     in paragraph (1A), for “persons who carry on financial services business”, there is substituted “persons subject to the measures mentioned in paragraph (1)(a) or (b)”;

(c)     in paragraph (4) –

(i)      for “person carrying on a financial services business” there is substituted “person subject to the measures mentioned in paragraph (1)(a) or (b)”,

(ii)      for “that business” there is substituted “that person”.

2        Citation and commencement

This Law may be cited as the Proceeds of Crime (Amendment No. 4) (Jersey) Law 2021 and comes into force 7 days after it is registered.

 

 


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