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Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009

Enforcement - Offences - Stored value instrument searches by Customs officer

115: Duty to assist Customs officer to access stored value instruments

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"Helping Customs officers access cards with money on them"

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You must help a Customs officer access a stored value instrument if they ask. A stored value instrument is something like a debit card that holds money. The Customs officer can ask you for information to access the instrument's data.

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Part 3Enforcement
Offences: Stored value instrument searches by Customs officer

115Duty to assist Customs officer to access stored value instruments

  1. A Customs officer exercising a search power or an examination power under section 114(4) may require a specified person to provide access information and other information or assistance that is reasonable and necessary to allow the Customs officer to access data held in a stored value instrument.

  2. In this case, section 130 of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012 (which requires persons with knowledge of a computer system or other data storage devices or an Internet site to assist access) applies in respect of the stored value instrument with necessary modifications.

  3. In this section, stored value instrument—

  4. means a portable device (for example, a debit card) that contains monetary value that is not physical currency but that can be reloaded or redeemed for cash; and
    1. includes an instrument that is prescribed as a bearer-negotiable instrument under section 153(b).

      Notes
      • Section 115: replaced, on , by section 443(3) of the Customs and Excise Act 2018 (2018 No 4).