Published: 2010-03-01
Key Benefits:
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.]