Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A04198:body:0:p5
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A04198
Segment Type: other
Provision Reference: 
Character Range: 10980–13821

in that subsection.".

13. After section 17 of the Principal Act, the following section is inserted in Part II:

Inspection of identifying systems etc.

"17a. (1) The Director may, by written notice to a cash dealer, require the dealer to give the authorised officer specified in the notice access to the dealer's premises so specified on the day and during the hours so specified.

"(2) The hours specified in a notice must occur during the cash dealer's normal business hours.

  "(3) A cash dealer must comply with a notice.

"(4) Where an authorised officer is given access to premises under a notice, the officer may, for the purposes of monitoring the cash dealer's compliance with section 16, inspect any system that may be used by the dealer at those premises for identifying and recording transactions that are, or might be, covered by subsection 16 (1) and any records that' may be kept on, or may be accessible from, the premises relating to such transactions.".

Cash dealer to keep documents

  14. Section 23 of the Principal Act is amended:

    (a) by inserting in subsection (1a) "or a copy of it" after "retain the record";

    (b)    by inserting in paragraphs (2) (a) and (b) "or a copy of it" after "retain the record";

    (c)     by omitting from paragraph (2) (ba) ", together with any record" and substituting "or a copy of it, together with any record, or copy of any record,";

    (d)    by inserting in paragraph (2) (c) "or a copy of it" after "retain the record".

Access to CTR information

  15. Section 27 of the Principal Act is amended:

  (a)     by adding at the end of paragraph (1) (a) "and";

    (b)    by adding at the end of subsection (1) the following word and paragraph:

            "and (d) the Attorney-General is entitled to access to CTR information for the purpose of dealing with a request made by a foreign country to which the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1987 applies because of regulations made under subsection 7 (2a) of that Act.";

  (c) by inserting after subsection (3) the following subsection:

       "(3a) Where the Attorney-General:

        (a)     is given access to CTR information under section 37a of the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1987; and

        (b)     is satisfied that the foreign country requesting the information has given appropriate undertakings for protecting the confidentiality of the information, and for controlling the use that will be made of it;

     the Attorney-General may communicate that information to the foreign country.";

    (d) by omitting from subsection (16) everything after "included" and substituting:

      "a reference to:

        (a)     the Police Force of a State; and

        (b)     the New South Wales Crime Commission; and

          (c)     the Independent Commission Against Corruption