Committee for Home Affairs - P.2022/92
The States are asked to decide:-
Whether, after consideration of the policy letter entitled 'A New Guernsey Anti Money Laundering/Combating the Financing of Terrorism Forum' dated 3rd October 2022, 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, the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and the Terrorism Act 2000,
(b) introduce confidentiality provisions applicable to any information shared under the provisions referred to above, and
(c) introduce a power for the Committee for Home Affairs to make regulations to introduce a process whereby information provided by the private sector to their head offices or other linked organisations in another jurisdiction are shared with the Guernsey Financial Intelligence Unit;
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 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 participation in the proposed Guernsey Integrated Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Intelligence Task Force, and;
4. To direct the preparation of such legislation as may be necessary to give effect to the above decision.
