Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

3A.   Competent authority to submit information to financial intelligence authority

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    A competent authority, other than the Financial Intelligence Authority, that is in possession of information that an entity meets the following criteria, namely—

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      (a)     that an entity—

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        (i)     is participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing, or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf of, or in support of,

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        (ii)     is supplying, selling or transferring arms and related material to,

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        (iii)     is recruiting for or otherwise supporting acts or activities of,

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        Al-Qaida, or any cell, affiliate, splinter group or derivative of Al-Qaida;

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      (b)     that an entity is owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by an entity referred to under paragraph (a);

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      (c)     that an entity is acting on behalf of, or at the direction of an entity referred to under paragraph (a);

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      (d)     that an entity—

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        (i)     is participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing, or perpetrating of acts or activities by, in conjunction with, under the name of, on behalf of, or in support of,

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        (ii)     is supplying, selling or transferring arms and related materiel to,

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        (iii)     is recruiting for or is otherwise supporting acts or activities of an entity referred to under subparagraph (i) that is associated with,

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    the Taliban in constituting a threat to the peace, stability and security of Afghanistan;

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      (e)     that an entity is owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by an entity referred to under paragraph (d);

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      (f)     that an entity is acting on behalf of or at the direction of an entity referred to under paragraph (d),

shall immediately submit that information to the Financial Intelligence Authority and the Financial Intelligence Authority shall forward the information to the Attorney General.

(Inserted by Act 28 of 2019)