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Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing (Financial Institutions)
Ordinance

Part 5—Division 2
A737
Section 29
Ord. No. 15 of 2011

(a) a certified copy or an uncertified copy of the register or of an entry in or extract from the register; or
(b) a certificate by the Commissioner stating that the name of a person has been entered on or removed from the register or has not been entered on the register.

(2) A copy of the register, or of an entry in or extract from the register, purporting to be certified by the Commissioner is admissible in evidence in any criminal or civil proceedings on production without further proof and is evidence of the facts stated in the copy.

(3) The fact that the name of a person does not appear on a copy of the register purporting to be certified by the Commissioner is evidence that the person was not, at the date on which the copy is so certified, licensed.

(4) A certificate purporting to be signed by the Commissioner and stating that the name of a person has been entered on or removed from the register, or has not been entered on the register, is admissible in evidence in any criminal or civil proceedings on production without further proof and is to be conclusive evidence of the facts stated in the certificate.

Division 2
Licence for Operating Money Service

29. Restriction on operating money service

(1) A person commits an offence if the person operates a money service without a licence.

(2) A person who commits an offence under subsection (1) is liable on conviction to a fine at level 6 and to imprisonment for 6 months.