23. Amendment of section 20 of the principal enactment

Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.

Section 20 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows: -

(1)

in subsection (1) of that section, by the substitution for the words “who has been, a Director, officer,”, of the words “who has been, the Head of the Financial Intelligence

Unit, an officer,”; and

(2)

by the repeal of subsection (2) of that section and the substitution therefor, of the following subsection: -

“(2) Any person referred to in subsection (1) shall not disclose any information or matter which such person has obtained or which has come to such person’s knowledge in the performance of the duties imposed on, or in the discharge of the functions assigned to such person under this Act, except-Financial Transactions Reporting

(a)

for the purpose of performing such duties or discharging of such functions;

(b)

when lawfully required to do so by any court;

(c)

for securing compliance with, or detecting evasion of, any requirement contained in any provision of this Act or any other written law relating thereto;

(d)

for the implementation of the provisions of the Prevention of

Money Laundering Act, No.

5 of 2006 and the Convention on the Suppression of Terrorist

Financing Act, No. 25 of 2005;

(e)

for the purposes of section 21 of the Foreign Exchange Act, No.

12 of 2017.”.

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