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Financial Intelligence


Published: 2010-03-01

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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

     SECTION

 

PART I
Preliminary

                1.         Short title

                2.         Interpretation

 

PART II
Establishment of Financial Intelligence Agency

                3.         Establishment of Agency

                4.         Functions of Agency

                5.         Security screening of Director, etc.

 

PART III
National Coordinating Committee on Financial Intelligence

                6.         Establishment of National Coordinating Committee on Financial Intelligence

                7.         Functions of Committee

                8.         Meetings of Committee

 

PART IV
Duty to Identify Customers and Keep Records

                9.         Obligations of specified party

               10.         Identification of customers

               11.         Keeping of records

               12.         Period records to be kept

               13.         Records kept by third party

               14.         Admissibility of electronic records

               15.         Offences relating to records

               16.         Access to records of specified party

 

PART V
Reporting Obligation and Cash Transactions

               17.         Specified party reporting

               18.         Cash transactions above prescribed limit

               19.         General reporting

               20.         Conveyance of cash

               21.         Electronic transfer of money into or out of Botswana

               22.         Content of report

               23.         Continuation of transaction

               24.         Interruption of transaction by Agency

               25.         Offences relating to reporting

               26.         Indemnity of person making report

 

PART VI
Referral, Supervision and Exchange of Information

               27.         Obligations of supervisory authorities

               28.         Receipt of information by Agency

               29.         Referral of information by Agency

               30.         Referral of information by supervisory authority

               31.         Membership of international financial organisation

               32.         Certificate issued by Agency

               33.         Information held by Agency

 

PART VII
General Provisions

               34.         Confidentiality by Director, etc.

               35.         Declaration of assets by Director, etc.

               36.         Indemnity of Director, etc.

               37.         Exempt transactions

               38.         Amendment of Schedule

               39.         Transitional provisions

               40.         Regulations

 

                            Schedule I

                            Schedule II

 

Act 6, 2009,
S.I. 13, 2010,
S.I. 68, 2013.

An Act to provide for the establishment of the Financial Intelligence Agency; to establish a National Coordinating Committee on Financial Intelligence; to provide for the reporting of suspicious transactions and other cash transactions; to provide for mutual assistance with comparable bodies outside Botswana in relation to financial information and for matters connected therewith and incidental thereto.

[Date of commencement: Sections 1-8, 34-36 and 40: 1st March, 2010; 
Sections 9-33 and 37-39: 21st June, 2013.
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