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

Part 6—Division 2
A811
Section 62
Ord. No. 15 of 2011

(e) threatens, insults or causes any loss to be suffered by any person who has attended before the Tribunal, on account of that attendance; or
(f) threatens, insults or causes any loss to be suffered by the chairperson, or any other member, of the Tribunal at any time on account of the performance of the chairperson’s or member’s functions in that capacity.

(3) A person who commits an offence under subsection (2) is liable—

(a) on conviction on indictment to a fine of $1,000,000 and to imprisonment for 2 years; or
(b) on summary conviction to a fine at level 6 and to imprisonment for 6 months.

(4) A person is not excused from complying with an order, notice, prohibition or requirement of the Tribunal made, given or imposed under subsection (1) only on the ground that to do so might tend to incriminate the person.

62. Use of incriminating evidence given under compulsion

(1) This section applies to any evidence, answer or information given or provided by a person in accordance with a requirement or order of the Tribunal imposed or made under section 61(1)(c), (e) or (f).

(2) Despite anything in this Ordinance and subject to subsection (3), neither the evidence, answer or information given or provided by the person nor the requirement or order imposed or made by the Tribunal is admissible in evidence against the person in criminal proceedings in a court of law.