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Formal Consolidation | 2000 RevEd
Communication of information to foreign authority
41.—(1) Notwithstanding section 56 or any other written law or rule of law, a Suspicious Transaction Reporting Officer may communicate any thing disclosed to him or any authorised officer under section 39(1) to a corresponding authority of a foreign country if the conditions specified in subsection (2) are satisfied.
[12/2000]
(2) The conditions referred to in subsection (1) are as follows:
(a)
there exists an arrangement under which the corresponding authority of the foreign country has agreed to communicate to Singapore, upon Singapore’s request, information received by the corresponding authority that corresponds to any thing required to be disclosed to an authorised officer under section 39(1);
[44/2007 wef 01/11/2007]
(b)
the Suspicious Transaction Reporting Officer is satisfied that the corresponding authority has given appropriate undertakings —
(i)
for protecting the confidentiality of any thing communicated to it; and
(ii)
for controlling the use that will be made of it, including an undertaking that it will not be used as evidence in any proceedings; and
(c)
such other conditions as the Minister may prescribe.
[12/2000]
(3) In this section —
“corresponding authority”, in relation to a foreign country, means the authority of that foreign country responsible for receiving information that corresponds to any thing required to be disclosed to an authorised officer under section 39(1);
“Suspicious Transaction Reporting Officer” means an authorised officer —
(a)
who has been appointed by the Minister as a Suspicious Transaction Reporting Officer for the purposes of this section; and
(b)
who had his appointment as a Suspicious Transaction Reporting Officer published in the Gazette.
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Informal Consolidation | Amended S 597/2007
Communication of information to foreign authority
41.—(1) Notwithstanding section 56 and any other written law or rule of law, a Suspicious Transaction Reporting Officer may communicate any thing —
(a)
disclosed to him under section 39(1), 48C or 48E; or
(b)
forwarded to him under section 48D,
to a corresponding authority of a foreign country if —
(i)
that thing may be relevant to an investigation by that authority into a foreign drug trafficking offence or a foreign serious offence; and
(ii)
the conditions in subsection (2) are satisfied.
[44/2007 wef 01/11/2007]
(2) The conditions referred to in subsection (1) are as follows:
(a)
there exists an arrangement under which the corresponding authority of the foreign country has agreed to communicate to Singapore, upon Singapore’s request, information received by the corresponding authority that corresponds to any thing required to be disclosed to a Suspicious Transaction Reporting Officer under section 39(1), 48C or 48E or an immigration officer under section 48C;
[44/2007 wef 01/11/2007]
(b)
the Suspicious Transaction Reporting Officer is satisfied that the corresponding authority has given appropriate undertakings —
(i)
for protecting the confidentiality of any thing communicated to it; and
(ii)
for controlling the use that will be made of it, including an undertaking that it will not be used as evidence in any proceedings; and
(c)
such other conditions as the Minister may prescribe.
[12/2000]
(3) In this section —
“corresponding authority”, in relation to a foreign country, means the authority of that foreign country responsible for receiving information that corresponds to any thing required to be disclosed to an authorised officer under section 39(1);