Committee for Home Affairs - P.2021/137
Proposition
- The States are asked to decide:-
- Whether, after consideration of the Policy Letter 'A New Guernsey Anti Money Laundering / Combating the Financing of Terrorism Forum' dated 22nd November 2021 of the Committee for Home Affairs, they are of the opinion -
- 1. To endorse the policy approaches set out in the Policy Letter;
- 2. To agree to amend the Terrorism and Crime (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2002 and the Disclosure (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2007 (and to make such consequential and incidental legislative provision as may be necessary) to:
- (a) enable information to be shared between the Financial Intelligence Unit and third parties in line with the information-sharing provisions in the Crime and Courts Act, 2013,
- (b) introduce confidentiality provisions applicable to any information shared under the provisions referred to above, and
- (c) introduce a power for the Committee forHome Affairs to make regulations to introduce a process whereby reports made by the private sector to their head offices or other linked organisations in other jurisdiction are notified to the Financial Intelligence Unit; and
- 3. To agree to amend the Rehabilitation of Offenders (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2002 (Commencement, Exclusions and Exceptions) Ordinance, 2006 (and to make such consequential and incidental legislative provision as may be necessary) to:
- (a) extend the exemptions from the provisions in the Rehabilitation of Offenders (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2002 to questions asked in relation to assessing the suitability of any person for the purposes of
- i. participation in the proposed Guernsey Integrated Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Intelligence Task Force,
- ii. the granting by the Alderney Gambling Control Commission of an eGambling licence or certificate, and
- iii. employment within the Alderney eGambling sector, and
- (b) add to the list at Part II of Schedule 1 all authorities within the Bailiwick of Guernsey whose functions include handling sensitive information linked to financial crime.
- 4. To direct the preparation of such legislation as may be necessary to give effect to the above decision.
Motion to Withdraw
Secondary Proposition Proposer Seconder Status Motion to Withdraw [234kb]
Deputy Prow Deputy Vermeulen To be debated
