Part 8Investigations
C2Chapter 2England and Wales and Northern Ireland
Customer information orders
I1C3C4C1364 Meaning of customer information
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“Customer information”, in relation to a person and a financial institution, is information whether the person holds, or has held, F12 an account or accounts at the financial institution (whether solely or jointly with another) and (if so) information as to—
a
the matters specified in subsection (2) if the person is an individual;
b
the matters specified in subsection (3) if the person is a company or limited liability partnership or a similar body incorporated or otherwise established outside the United Kingdom.
2
The matters referred to in subsection (1)(a) are—
a
the account number or numbersF3or the number of any safe deposit box;
b
the person’s full name;
c
his date of birth;
d
his most recent address and any previous addresses;
e
F1in the case of an account or accounts,the date or dates on which he began to hold the account or accounts and, if he has ceased to hold the account or any of the accounts, the date or dates on which he did so;
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in the case of any safe deposit box, the date on which the box was made available to him and if the box has ceased to be available to him the date on which it so ceased;
f
such evidence of his identity as was obtained by the financial institution under or for the purposes of any legislation relating to money laundering;
g
the full name, date of birth and most recent address, and any previous addresses, of any person who holds, or has held, an account at the financial institution jointly with him;
h
the account number or numbers of any other account or accounts held at the financial institution to which he is a signatory and details of the person holding the other account or accounts.
3
The matters referred to in subsection (1)(b) are—
a
the account number or numbersF8 or the number of any safe deposit box;
b
the person’s full name;
c
a description of any business which the person carries on;
d
the country or territory in which it is incorporated or otherwise established and any number allocated to it under F2the Companies Act 2006 or corresponding legislation of any country or territory outside the United Kingdom;
e
any number assigned to it for the purposes of value added tax in the United Kingdom;
f
its registered office, and any previous registered offices, under F5the Companies Act 2006 (or corresponding earlier legislation) or anything similar under corresponding legislation of any country or territory outside the United Kingdom;
g
its registered office, and any previous registered offices, under the Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2000 (c. 12) or anything similar under corresponding legislation of any country or territory outside Great Britain;
h
F7in the case of an account or accounts, the date or dates on which it began to hold the account or accounts and, if it has ceased to hold the account or any of the accounts, the date or dates on which it did so;
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in the case of any safe deposit box, the date on which the box was made available to it and if the box has ceased to be available to it the date on which it so ceased;
i
such evidence of its identity as was obtained by the financial institution under or for the purposes of any legislation relating to money laundering;
j
the full name, date of birth and most recent address and any previous addresses of any person who is a signatory to the account or any of the accounts.
4
The Secretary of State may by order provide for information of a description specified in the order—
a
to be customer information, or
b
no longer to be customer information.
5
Money laundering is an act which—
a
constitutes an offence under section 327, 328 or 329 of this Act or section 18 of the Terrorism Act 2000 (c. 11), or
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constitutes an offence specified in section 415(1A) of this Act,
b
would constitute an offence specified in paragraph (a)F11or (aa) if done in the United Kingdom.
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A “safe deposit box” includes any procedure under which a financial institution provides a facility to hold items for safe keeping on behalf of another person.
Pt. 8 Ch. 2: power to modify conferred (20.3.2015) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), ss. 47, 61(2); S.I. 2015/813, art. 2(b)