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CRIMES LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 1992 No. 164 of 1992 - SECT 4

Interpretation
4. Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended:
(a) by omitting ", (5A)" from the definition of "FTR information" in
subsection (1);
(b) by omitting from subsection (1) the definitions of "account" and

"primary identification document" and substituting the following definitions:

"'account' means any facility or arrangement by which a cash dealer does any
of the following:

   (a)  accepts deposits of currency;

   (b)  allows withdrawals of currency;

   (c)  pays cheques or payment orders drawn on the cash dealer by, or
        collects cheques or payment orders on behalf of, a person other than
        the cash dealer; and includes any facility or arrangement for a safety
        deposit box or for any other form of safe deposit, but does not
        include an arrangement for a loan that sets out the amounts and times
        of advances and repayments, being amounts and times from which the
        borrower and lender may not depart during the term of the loan;
'primary identification document', in relation to a person, in a particular
name, means:

   (a)  a certified copy, or an extract, of a birth certificate of the person;
        or

   (b)  a certified copy of a citizenship certificate of the person; or

   (c)  an international travel document for the person; or

   (d)  any other prescribed document; that shows that name as the person's
        name;";

   (c)  by inserting in subsection (1) the following definitions:

"'account information', in relation to an account with a cash dealer, means:

   (a)  information identifying the account, including any identifying number;
        and

   (b)  the name in which the account is held; and

   (c)  information, and documents, provided to the cash dealer by the holder
        of the account (whether provided in relation to that account or
        another account), as follows:

        (i)    an address, not being a Post Office Box address, for the holder
               of the account;

        (ii)   if the account is held in:

                (A)  the name or names of an individual or individuals; or

                (B)  the name of an unincorporated association - that fact;

        (iii)  if the account is held in the name of a body corporate (other
               than as a trustee) - that fact and a copy of the certificate of
               incorporation (if any) of the body corporate;

        (iv)   if the account is held in a business name - that fact and a
               copy of the certificate of registration of the business name
               or, if registration was applied for but not yet obtained, a
               copy of the application;

        (v)    if the account is held in trust - that fact and the prescribed
               details of the trustees and beneficiaries of the trust;
'identification record' has the meaning given by section 20A;
'identification reference' has the meaning given by section 21;
'international travel document' means:

   (a)  a current passport; or

   (b)  an expired passport that:

        (i)    was not cancelled; and

        (ii)   was current within the preceding 2 years; or

   (c)  another current identity document, having the characteristics of a
        passport, issued by a government, the United Nations or an Agency of
        the United Nations for the purposes of international travel;
'signatory information', in relation to a signatory to an account with a cash
dealer, means information and documents (whether obtained by the cash dealer
in relation to that account or another account), as follows:

   (a)  the name used by the signatory as his or her name in relation to that
        account;

   (b)  if the account is held in the name of an unincorporated association -
        a copy of the instrument authorising the signatory to sign;

   (c)  any other name by which the signatory is commonly known, being a name
        disclosed to the cash dealer;

   (d)  an identification record for the signatory in accordance with section
        20A;". 


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