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Proceeds of crime

Proceeds of crime: customer information orders in relation to safe deposit boxes

14.—(1) Section 364 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (c. 29) (meaning of customer information) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1) after “an account or accounts” insert “or any safe deposit box”.

(3) In subsection (2)—

(a)in paragraph (a) at the end add “or the number of any safe deposit box”;

(b)in paragraph (e) at the beginning insert “in the case of an account or accounts,” and after that paragraph insert —

(ee)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;.

(4) In subsection (3)—

(a)in paragraph (a) at the end add “or the number of any safe deposit box”;

(b)in paragraph (h) at the beginning insert “in the case of an account or accounts,” and after that paragraph insert —

(hh)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;.

(5) At the end add—

(6) 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..