Clause 20

after subsection (10C), insert —“(10D) Despite anything in this section, the Comptroller may furnish to the head of the Suspicious Transaction Reporting Office any information that may be required by the Suspicious Transaction Reporting Office for the purpose of detecting the possible commission of an offence specified in the First, Second or Third Schedule to the Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Serious Crimes (Confiscation of Benefits) Act 1992.(10E) The following persons, namely:

the head of the Suspicious Transaction Reporting Office to whom any information is furnished under subsection (10D) for the purpose mentioned in that subsection;

any Suspicious Transaction Reporting Officer to whom information is disclosed in compliance with this subsection,must not disclose to any other person such information, except where the disclosure is to a Suspicious Transaction Reporting Officer and the disclosure is necessary for the same purpose, and any person in paragraph (a) or (b) who contravenes this subsection shall be guilty of an offence.”;

in subsection (14), after the definition of “head of a law enforcement agency”, insert —“ “head of the Suspicious Transaction Reporting Office” means the Director of the Commercial Affairs Department;”;

in subsection (14), in the definition of “law enforcement agency”, in paragraph (e), replace the full‑stop at the end with a semi‑colon; and

in subsection (14), after the definition of “law enforcement agency”, insert —“ “Suspicious Transaction Reporting Office” means the office mentioned in section 5(1) of the Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Serious Crimes (Confiscation of Benefits) Act 1992;“Suspicious Transaction Reporting Officer” means a Suspicious Transaction Reporting Officer as defined in section 2(1) of the Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Other Serious Crimes (Confiscation of Benefits) Act 1992 who is a Commercial Affairs Officer appointed under section 64 of the Police Force Act 2004.”.