Maintenance Act, 1998
R 385
Financial Intelligence Centre Act, 2001 (Act No. 38 of 2001)Chapter 3 : Control Measures for Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorist and Related Activities - Money Laundering, Financing of Terrorist and Related Activities and Financial Sanctions Control MeasuresPart 1 : Customer due diligence21E. Inability to conduct customer due diligence |
If an accountable institution is unable to—
(a) | establish and verify the identity of a client or other relevant person in accordance with section 21 or 21B; |
(b) | obtain the information contemplated in section 21A; or |
(c) | conduct ongoing due diligence as contemplated in section 21C, |
the institution—
(i) | may not establish a business relationship or conclude a single transaction with a client; |
(ii) | may not conclude a transaction in the course of a business relationship, or perform any act to give effect to a single transaction; or |
(iii) | must terminate, in accordance with its Risk Management and Compliance Programme, an existing business relationship with a client, |
as the case may be, and consider making a report under section 29 of this Act.
[Section 21E inserted by section 10 of the Financial Intelligence Centre Amendment Act, 2017 (Act No. 1 of 2017)]