Clause 8

by deleting subsection (1) and substituting the following subsection:“(1) Notwithstanding section 56 and any other written law or rule of law, a Suspicious Transaction Reporting Officer may communicate any thing —

disclosed to him under section 39(1), 48C or 48E; or

forwarded to him under section 48D,to a corresponding authority of a foreign country if —

that thing may be relevant to an investigation by that authority into a foreign drug trafficking offence or a foreign serious offence; and

the conditions in subsection (2) are satisfied.”;

by deleting the words “an authorised officer under section 39(1)” in subsection (2)(a) and substituting the words “a Suspicious Transaction Reporting Officer under section 39(1), 48C or 48E or an immigration officer under section 48C”; and

by deleting the definition of “Suspicious Transaction Reporting Officer” in subsection (3).