Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Act 2010

106N

F166[Holder of registration to ensure that beneficial owners are fit and proper persons

106N. (1) The holder of a registration shall take reasonable steps to ascertain that any person who is a beneficial owner of the virtual asset service provider concerned is a fit and proper person.

(2) A person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence.

(3) A person who commits an offence under this section is liable—

(a) on summary conviction, to a class C fine, or

(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine not exceeding €100,000.]

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F166

Inserted (23.04.2021) by Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Act 2021 (3/2021), s. 25, S.I. No. 188 of 2021. A class C fine means a fine not exceeding €2,500 as provided (4.01.2011) by Fines Act 2010 (8/2010), ss. 3, 6(1), S.I. No. 662 of 2010.